Show ax 00 MU P 0 0 M PR 0 0 i 41 0 A aa A A it 44 I 1 F A r ethiopian warriors in mock cavalry charge Pre pad cil by 8 oclay ocl ty elal anglon U D N NU the ali fall of aduca fin S 1 it trading trad liis ater t of northern to tile the formis of italy tile the towns of ak sum flarar and slid and tile the provi province twe of 0 0 aden have auve tin till port arit places in 10 the vem newn avem olna to tile the further movi movements ments of italian and UtI troops perched fit hah gh lit in the mountains about 70 filet above the sin MI and only 12 aillia almost due west aest of aduca akscin today la Is a small town of only about am tants but the lie kimory of ancient glores lorac still clings to huge stone atone that lint there akalin was wag the capital of I 1 coplit ne according cordIng to records slid and since time immemorial has I 1 lem an regarded as aa nard by the pro peo pie ila III attired character has ninde the city immune to attak or plundering by brigands brigande bri gands or the arah A of 0 rival at 1 chieftains lighting fighting for the surrounding country this Is 1 not the first time that italian armalea have hold field aasum the tall nail mil ins conque reil the city an I 1 nearby territory in the man ab ended by their dIgn do feat at adur adura a in 1894 to in la Is a churell church which according acin to tn legen 1 contains the orli inal ark of the covenant of the the clit church irh has ln so 0 o closely guarded arld lv fly the clergy however that lint no scholars from the Ne western stern world have been able to confirm or deny tile tie legend send le llalon pays that ant the ark arb ens brought to hy by hlen Meriell ellk li I 1 ron of aing R and the of shelia to the story war at ceru patent hy holmn on n until lip reached till th are of nineteen he then want ent to I 1 with ith the ark and a inase e of llo breAs ark my may have deen burned I 1 ilia he orI ordinal Inal church in malih aich the ark of tile the 0 CUM mint was waa d to have bae beij lidid a us 3 burnel w lien tile the city v ua tin a 8 alit K lii it by a 11 M 14 a it inn in I 1 a va tit r mohammed crun cran about il but a new one wits erected soon boon ufer hy by the guele who bli hul blid d visited mariir eurll earI Ir tr and hid had established establIsh id friend ly relations rela tlona there 1 here eliere to li no rec oril ord of whether r the ark arh as dp de troed in this fire or carried to oine gome safe pinte before the Inu Iri vidon and later inter restored to the new church native says that absum intes dates buck back ninny many thouN thousands ands of bears hie earll tat authoritative mention of it la Is in a riton rit tn in OT ca A 1 in aich it ti Is d As aa tile ha of tile the ak na its tile hie of the ancient luxl fill of 1 tint lint and the lie forerunner of It ethl till ila la punt li in irvn vr tian accor Is as n a n place alth ith which the I 1 nt liina traced led for gold ly ory ostrich feathers and othir val liable merchandise Is choll ht to have I 1 tran CC I 1 much barror in antl tit dinies tit thin in now for lure are travel found of large arje ImIl dings over a aile wl lo 10 aria ana near the present to town borne of them temples anti and pol nees I 1 ahe he city of about ISO miles from the red pea ea and miles south of the rall railroad rond from addis ababa to korll w hy by arabs who mhd ei P from lemen on the atcon eastern shore hore of the itel men an fn harar a walled city A sury loor of tile the middle ages of europe would feel at home in iia fin aar fir it has haq long been the cus tom tam to elme close the five gates in its inq high stone atone wall all at none may glenve or enter the city until the following ini ornIng jil jut rt as aa wn a the former practice in luro penno walled cities ille wall all gitles in la 14 guarded ly by 24 towrus recent re parta from say sv that the po inn ernar of the file city hns afi torn breathes hren her in the ohp walla alls to make it inq ible fp for the to in nee floto without con at tho the eitam in ento of f hv by the of lirar tire are little more ethni narrow illa iloine boine of them only or imir fe pi t i aitio steela twp will hinl lil tint alth ith thiv alrid ili bethen one nor ant baill buill 1 w haq amill f Undre otone AINI with alth thatched thed roots roof along the streets are many small shops attora some gunie a few 6 tells below tho the sart t t level in w which aich work blacksmith a alcser am its kerm and other artisans ablat abigt people ix ople according to the wout audit estimate normally I 1 live lit in and around and the city consalus con talus tile palace of the governor and several foreign cons conci lot lutes are of more construction than the hut hills of the common folk tin re are both christian churches cherchi it ant AfO moslem mon lups and two hospitals within A the walls itamar and its province annd id on in a plateau between and 5 ON feet above the sin ba which tins hns 11 climate and Is iq e extremely trot nely fertile leanir province Is furl film ms 11 1 for its coffee much of which li 14 ex ported a portion of the crop min coin ing n to tile the united states where here it la Is p preferred hy by ninny many dl coffee drinkers coffee gro a hii will I 1 in some ome parts part of flarar for mInce for was the original honie home of coffee arabs arab founded harar the history of itamar KOIS gots hack back to tile the seventh century A U D volian the immigrant arabs from yemen arrived and founded the city according to tradition the state which wa was then organized win known as aa adel or zalla of f 0 athla state was the he cap capital to i in n I 1 the le fifteenth century during that cen tury a ruler of clarar mohammed oran gran the left handed invin led what hat was wait then and con a large lare part of it no white man flarar no for far an 1 Is known jintil 1951 afi N glnn hm an I 1 sir hinr ton on spent pent teri ten dian there on na nn annb in tia the arpir reelon rion wn 11 I hy by tin nn an held fur for ten liiri until i in the flip glnn forced the with in mil of flip corrig it tie province then nan nier inder influence lne iunce until nhen hen it cinq conn hv aft menella it who later inter teenie em geror of anit who hn con the nt at adi ad 71 in till the period fro from m ll 11 Q it to awo province 1 ana I an italian ll 11 mlle alleq to the north or eon can he reached in n ono deiv journea on culp back or in four hoarn hv by over ver the roith terrain in anny unan the mot in rihl onti I 1 A key ket point on tho the murial n I 1 arh IR fam pinn only outlet to tho the stem en ronner tv wn no tho thi ter mthm of nf the from nil hont it iq choit T fram the aft tf annl litand i on the frince of nf taft bhone awo feet ebore pon nen leirl ae el ogaden province la lit at cortis curner r jutting tut aut into till an uncle angle fondd hy by british S 1 litI on oil the north and itallia on the die and jagt djs t on it tile the it extends to the writhe river Ml lell one or of I 1 till ohl a two qui amer pr wh I 1 lit low flow hundreds of miles billea toward the sea aea only to disappear into info the earth a few miles from their goal till stran e aher don from I 1 theoplas oplas high central amin talus almost reaches the pea nea near 11 on vito the in linn ocean then changes its lt mind and ru runa n s 1 0 miles blonn along flip lie pont coast only onla 12 t to 11 alles mlles inking itsie in the italian S a few ellei from the eq an other of Ith InNs a dix riv rl ers era tile awash flows rint out of the maintains benr adil adili i ahnin north ea eastward hut but in loe intes tes itself nawt C fa or 70 70 miles inland from 1 I the chief port of french bonill land on the of anen aden from tit the bar der north th 09 0 len en to in pire dawn and the flip A aalta 1 I IN ahtha the t arnvel aio melr anif asnen A as far a flen ertil m from AtlA tita to in the he pen fien on the flip hialit a hy mole cioe n airth rth 14 1 the brnt dry Plate m iii of the I 1 iland in 10 1 h or mont the frontier riet neen 11 anti anil h R mil inn I 1 rit fil 14 1 tin lin irn up tip hy bv conre blit in the tin olry dry binn the flip hnud lloud plateau tr it waterless ent nat erics erless I 1 |