l68 CAESAR IN ABYSSINIA

At no time had order been a quality of Ethiopian armies
but now even the mass movement which had carried them
along vanished before the planes. Mulugeta, with the
old instinct of Ethiopian leadership, sensed the change.
Somehow or other, he must gather these scattered bands
together under his ferocious eye.

Two^ months had passed since he had left Addis. The
Ethiopians only owe service for two months in the year
It did not matter, he thought, so much about the Gallas
whom he had pressed into the army, but the Shoans and
Wallegas and Kambatas would have to be paid He
would have to open the chests of thalers in his