It is not very dimeult to find parallels in history for practically every situation which is encountered to-day, but the following extract from. Froissart's "Chronicle" dur-
Ing the last few years of the fourteenth century draws an interesting similarity between Ireland and Abyssini "To tell you the truth, Ireland is tone of the worst countries to make war in, or to conquer for there are Such "ynpenetrable and. extensive forests, Takes, and bogs, there enowing how to pass them and carry fon war advantageously: it Is's0 thinly Tnhabited' that whenever the Trish please they desert the towns, and fake refuge in these forests, and live in huts made of boughs, ike wild beasts: and whenever. the any" parties dispositions, and about to enter their country, they fly to such "narrow passes Ti is Impossible te" follow them.
"When they. find a favourable opportunity to attack their enemies to Sdvantage, which frequently" happent from taels knowledge of the country, they fall not to seize tt; and no man atsarms, be he ever so well mounted, can overtake them, #0 light are they foot, Sometimes they" leap. from the ground behind. a. horseman, and embrace the rider (for they are' very wrong In their arms) so Ughtly that hho can no way get rid of them. The Trish have pointed Knives, with broad Blades, sharp "on both tides ike a dart-head, with which they Kill their enemies; "but "they" never consider them as dead unfit they have cut their Uroats ike sheep, opened their bel-Hes, and taken out their hearts, which they carry off with them, and some say, Who are well, acquainted with their anners, chat whey devour them cious." morsels," They. never sceept of ransom of their prisoners; id when they find they have not the Advantage in" any skirmishes, they {instantly separate, and hide them= selves. in "hedges, or holes under rover by Kings, of whom there are Several But seem desirous to remain. In. the savage, state they have been brought in."
The description proceeds at some length when it finally winds up with the sentence:—"The honour is great, but the advantage little, for with such savages nothing can be done."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.