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 . et some meat, so I startedearly and soon found a solitary tora, but he saw us, gavea cry of alarm, and bolted. To my surprise, when a long way off, I saw himstop, turn round, andslowly walk back towardsus. As he approached, Isaw that he would pass usrather wide, so I tried toget nearer, while a treehid him ; but he spottedme at once, and turnedtowards me, his h
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 . et some meat, so I startedearly and soon found a solitary tora, but he saw us, gavea cry of alarm, and bolted. To my surprise, when a long way off, I saw himstop, turn round, andslowly walk back towardsus. As he approached, Isaw that he would pass usrather wide, so I tried toget nearer, while a treehid him ; but he spottedme at once, and turnedtowards me, his head onlyshowino; above the hiehgrass. Judging where hisbody should be, I fired,and ran up to find him shotdead through the some of the men o to skin the carcase, I wenton, and soon saw a smallherd of four tora on themove ; we followed them into six-foot Q-rass, whichwas cut up in every direction by elephant andbuffalo tracks made in the heavy rains, and for a timelost them. At last, from a little hill-top, near whichsome oribi were feeding, I saw them on an openpatch of shorter grass. I crawled to the shelter ofa bush and lay watching them, for they were too faroff to shoot ; suddenlv thev grazed into the distance,. Skull of Tora. Thimerhr Joxvee. XXIV A GREAT DAY WITH TORA 263 and then came straight towards me. I droppedtwo dead, and wounded the other two. Starting afterthe one which seemed hardest hit, I missed a shot, butbrought it down with a second, and I returned towhere the first two lay and after a short rest startedon the tracks of the other wounded one. This led usinto the long grass, where we had to be careful notto fall into the deep holes made by elephants, whichwere hidden in the grass. After going some way Isaw the beasts head and fired, knocking it over; AHran to it, and then came back to me for a knife ; whilehe was doing so, the beast got up and again stumbledofi^, giving us a long chase, as for some time we lostits tracks on hard ground. Eventua
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