. Seventeen trips through Somaliland and a visit to Abyssinia; with supplementary preface on the 'Mad Mullah' risings. Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920; Ethnology; Zoology. RECONNAISSANCE OF ABYSSINIAN BORDER 117 account of our daily sport, but I may mention that in feeding our thirty men we shot many beisa and Soemmerring's gazelles in the busli country, and hartebeests when crossing the open han. On the 20th of July we marched to the level of the plateau behind Hargeisa village, over thorn-covered rolling ground, the soil being red earth. We did eleven miles and halted at Bomb6s, in a splen
. Seventeen trips through Somaliland and a visit to Abyssinia; with supplementary preface on the 'Mad Mullah' risings. Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920; Ethnology; Zoology. RECONNAISSANCE OF ABYSSINIAN BORDER 117 account of our daily sport, but I may mention that in feeding our thirty men we shot many beisa and Soemmerring's gazelles in the busli country, and hartebeests when crossing the open han. On the 20th of July we marched to the level of the plateau behind Hargeisa village, over thorn-covered rolling ground, the soil being red earth. We did eleven miles and halted at Bomb6s, in a splendidly grassed hollow, just beyond some Habr Awal karias. Hearing from the karia people that there had been rain. (Jaime on "JKe ^Ichtvs^ at Garablss, near hers, at about 9 we sent a camel with four hdns, and the men returned with the water at 1 The next day we made a morning march of twelve miles to Dob6ya, over rolling ground, which is stony on the elevations and has good grass in the depressions, the whole country being covered with flat-topped thorn-jungle about twenty feet high. Near our mid-day camp some MidgAns were skinning a beisa which had been killed by a lion the night before, and at Garabiss we crossed the tracks of a number of Eidegalla horsemen, who had come north to loot the karias we had passed through the day before. In the evening march, after going a little over five miles, we came to the end of the thorn-trees, and emerged on to an open plain of short grass called Ban-ki-Aror, about five miles across,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Swayne, Harald George Carlos, 1860-. London, R. Ward, limited
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