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 . ain Harrington,explaining the matter as I understood it, and sayingthat, far from being displeased with Basha Kassa, Ihad given him and his men presents on parting fromthem. These letters, together with one for England,I did up in as imposing a packet as possible, which wasto be taken by the Dedjatch to the Emperor. I alsowrote out duplicates of the ones concer
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 . ain Harrington,explaining the matter as I understood it, and sayingthat, far from being displeased with Basha Kassa, Ihad given him and his men presents on parting fromthem. These letters, together with one for England,I did up in as imposing a packet as possible, which wasto be taken by the Dedjatch to the Emperor. I alsowrote out duplicates of the ones concerning BashaKassa, and these he sent off by a man he could trust,as he feared the others might not arrive in time. Andit was well he did so, for when I met Captain Harring-ton in London on my return home, I learnt that theseletters only overtook him after he had started for thecoast, and just in time to prevent Basha Kassa beingpublicly flogged in the streets of Adis Ababa, a fatewhich had quite lately befallen the governor of a district,who had stopped Majors Bright and Austin in theirsurvey-work for the delimitation of the western next morning a younger brother of the Dedjatch 292 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA. came to my tent with the pistol, saying he was taking itat once to his father, the Ras, and would I explain it tohim ? I found him by no means as intelligent as hisbrother, but eventually he managed to fire it off allright. I then went over to see the wounded man, andfound that, although the leg had given him some painat first, he had had a better night than for some timepast. He gave me the names ofdifferent likely places for elephant,buffalo, lion, and giraffe, and anorder for the shikari who had accom-panied him to go with me. He askedfor a note to Mr. Wakeman, thededjatch cubuddas doctor to the British Ao^ency, which Seal. . I gave him, and then said have heard since that he reached Adis Ababasafely ; the wound having been kept dressed o
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