<sod>Tewodros, fearful of northerly Muslim powers, wrote a letter to [[Queen Victoria]] as a fellow Christian monarch, asking for [[United Kingdom|British]] assistance in the region. Tewodros asked the British Consul in Ethiopia, Captain [[Charles Duncan Cameron]], to carry a letter to Queen Victoria requesting skilled workers to come to teach his subjects how to produce firearms, and other technical skills. Cameron traveled to the coast with the letter, but when he informed the Foreign Office of the letter and its contents, the Foreign Office instructed him simply to send the letter to London rather than take it himself. He was to proceed to the Sudan to make inquiries about the slave trade there. After doing this, Cameron returned to Ethiopia.<eod>
<sod>Tewodros, fearful of northerly Muslim powers, wrote a letter<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wemezekir.blogspot.com/2014/01/emperor-tewodros-letter-to-h-rassam.html|title=Wemezekir: Emperor Tewodros letter to H. Rassam, Queen Victoria’s Envoy|access-date=2016-10-04}}</ref> to [[Queen Victoria]] as a fellow Christian monarch, asking for [[United Kingdom|British]] assistance in the region. Tewodros asked the British Consul in Ethiopia, Captain [[Charles Duncan Cameron]], to carry a letter to Queen Victoria requesting skilled workers to come to teach his subjects how to produce firearms, and other technical skills. Cameron traveled to the coast with the letter, but when he informed the Foreign Office of the letter and its contents, the Foreign Office instructed him simply to send the letter to London rather than take it himself. He was to proceed to the Sudan to make inquiries about the slave trade there. After doing this, Cameron returned to Ethiopia.<eod>