A few seconds later, having half drowned the unfortunate thief, he stood dripping like a figure cut out of black basalt before the boy.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
Report has it that they live in cave-like holes in the side of a giant, black basalt cliff reached by a subterranean river.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
The amba, with a few isolated mountains, all perpendicular and crowned with walls of basalt, seem like miniatures of the large expanses of Dahonte and Wallo-small particles detached from the neighbouring gigantic masses.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc