A letter in the Times from a "casual correspondent" at
Senafe, who is clearly entitled to the highest credit, explains the delay 'which has taken place in the movement on'Magdala. It was necessary, for thermometric reasons, to encamp the army at Senafe, 65 miles from the coast. The only road from the sea passes for two miles through a defile which, when the rains come, will be impassable. Consequently, provisions must be stored in Senafe as if Senafe were a separate planet. This is a slow busi- ness, more especially as Sir Seymour Fitzgerald spoilt the Land Transport Corps by insisting on economy, a word which in India always means inefficient superintendence. Sir Robert Napier has now moved forward on Antalo, and all appears to go well, except one thing. The Chiefs, aware that we are going away when the captives are freed, are afraid to incur Theodore's future vengeance. We cannot stop there for that, but what prevents our sending him to Rangoon ?
