There Is No Doubt That For Several Mouths Past, His Majesty Had Been Advised By His Spies That English Troops Had Landed In His Country; But Under The Difficulties He Was Placed In At The Time, He Considered It Advisable To Keep Silent On The Subject.

Since he had reached the vicinity of the Amba, however, he frequently, in his conversation with his people, gave strong hints that he expected before long to have to contend with the soldiers of Europe.

On the 8th of February Theodore told Mr. Waldmeier, the head of the workmen - a very intelligent and well-educated man, for whom Theodore had a great regard, though of late he had somewhat roughly used him - that he had received news from the coast informing him that the English had disembarked at Zulla. The following day he sent for Mr. Flad, and calling him aside, told him, "The people from whom you brought me a letter, and who you said would come, have arrived and landed at Zulla. They are coming up by the Salt Plain. Why did they not take a better road? The one by the Salt Plain is very unhealthy."

Flad explained to him that for troops arriving from India, that road was the best, as they would in three or four days reach the highlands of Agam. Theodore said, "We are making roads with great difficulty; for them it will only be play to make roads everywhere. It seems to me that it is the will of God that they should come. If He who is above does not kill me, none will kill me, and if He says, 'You must die,' none can save me:

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