International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

ranged, the party descended to the Azebu Galla plain, whence, under the guidance of the Fittaurari Igzan, they next set out towards Golima. Dispatches sent by the Asmara Government discouraged the undertaking, but Baron Franchetti, firmly determined to carry through his expedition, was not to be deterred and, followed by his companions, he vigorously resumed the difficult march towards those desolate regions > inhabited by populations who for long years have been imbued with blind hatred of the European, and who were now at loggerheads and warring with one another, being divided into partisans and opponents of the Negus. At Corbeta, a fortified village built of the trunks of the euforbia candelabra, and inhabited by razziatori who, no less faithful to age-long tra dition, pursue the art of war, our explorers were carried in triumph by these fierce-looking men, who followed the party and the Fittaurari Igzam and Ghebre with war songs and acclamations of welcome. After quitting Corbeta, another tiring march brought the party to Bula, and thence to Magala Afa, where the engineer Maglioni was seized with violent intestinal disturbances, caused by the fatigues of the march and the saltness of the water. This trouble, aggravated by violent fever > persisted throughout the journey and reduced the unlucky engineer to a very grave condition of health which made everyone fear irreperable complications at any moment. .It being impossible to stop long at a place without water, scorched by the burning sun at a temperature varying from 65 ° to 68° centigrade > the sick man was carried on a litter, turn by turn by 30 Ascari, and at other times he was carried on a deck chair fixed on a camel's back. The caravan, passing through desert and inhospitable lands, in a torrid climate, with a sick man who, racked by delerium and devoured by — 568