We halted a few miles from the market town of Tschelga, at a place called WALI Dabba.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc
On the march, at every halt from WALI Dabba to Theodore's camp in Damot, I heard nothing else from sunrise to sunset but the incessant cries of "Abiet, abiet; medanite, medanite."
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc
Now the WALI knew of the theft of the pearls; so he bade throw the merchant into jail.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton