A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives . led usalong the steep sloping ground below the main line ofcliffs. By a little stream of water he pointed out sometracks and said, Wala, but Ali and myself agreed thatthey looked more like klipspringer than anything else ;and this conjecture proved correct, for one of thoseantelopes appeared soon after, perched on a rock aboveus, and uttering its cry of alarm.
A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives . led usalong the steep sloping ground below the main line ofcliffs. By a little stream of water he pointed out sometracks and said, Wala, but Ali and myself agreed thatthey looked more like klipspringer than anything else ;and this conjecture proved correct, for one of thoseantelopes appeared soon after, perched on a rock aboveus, and uttering its cry of alarm. We climbed round thenext shoulder and sat clown to search the ground ; Ali,who was a little ahead of me, said, More klipspringer,and directly after No ! goats ! I crawled over to him atonce and caught sight of three ibex, a fair-sized male IBEX SIGHTED 363 with horns about JD inches, and a smaller male and female; they were about 400 yards ofT, nioving up throughsome thin scrub and watching the ground below at first said there were four, and that one had laindown ; however, as he could not point out the place orfind the animal again with the glasses, I doubted the state-ment. The three ibex in sight kept working up and. Mount Buiheat, the Home of the Ibex. away from us, the larger male and female going ov^er aridge, while we lost sight of the third altogether. Westarted to follow them, and had gone some distance whenAli stopped me, saying he had found the big one which hehad first seen ; and, after some little time, I made him outquite 180 yards off, lying in deep shadow under an over-hanging rock, and half concealed by a bush which grewin front. It was an awkward place to get at ; in fact Icould see no point that commanded it, except the one wewere on ; and as the creature had his head turned our 364 A SPORTIXG TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA way, and, by the movement of the one horn we could see,was evidently very much awake, I feared his spottingus at any moment. Taking a re
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