3-021-498 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Expedition to Abyssinia: waterfall on the Mai Muna, near Senafe, 1868. 'The scenery of Abyssinia is now becoming familiar to the readers of this Journal, thanks to the admirable sketches of our correspondent the Staff Officer, and those of several other contributors. He has sent us a view of the waterfall at Mai Muna, which we have engraved for the front page of this Number...The valley of the Mai Muna is near Goun-Gouna, thirteen miles beyond Senafe, on the road to Adigerat. It is a very picturesque spot, as our illustration will show. The rocks are beautifully contrasted in colour, some being white or yellow, and others red sandstone, but covered with mosses and lichens of every hue. The eye is also refreshed by the sight of wild dog-roses, jasmine, violets, buttercups, dandelions, and other English flowers. The river here forms deep pools of clear, cold water, most acceptable to men and cattle after a toilsome march. The road onward to Adigerat and Antalo, by which Major Murray's Armstrong battery was just passing at the moment when this sketch was taken, is between the waterfall and the high rocks to the right hand'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.