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 . dually the whole family assembled and watched meintently with their beady black eyes, till, getting tired,I moved, when all vanished instantly. My men after-wards found both the klipspringers. The first I firedat had rolled into a bush, and the second lay where ithad fallen. It shows how much luck enters into sport,that, during the whole of this trip, great par
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 . dually the whole family assembled and watched meintently with their beady black eyes, till, getting tired,I moved, when all vanished instantly. My men after-wards found both the klipspringers. The first I firedat had rolled into a bush, and the second lay where ithad fallen. It shows how much luck enters into sport,that, during the whole of this trip, great part of whichwas in leopard country, this was the only occasion on igo A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA which I saw one; while, in my previous shootingexpedition in SomaHland, I bagged three and saw nearlya dozen, though, I think, I only had a shot at oneother. Next morning my men came to tell me that adog had carried off both my klipspringer skulls, andas I had warned Hussein to be careful (one being thelargest head shot so far), I wasvery angry. While camp wasbeing struck, I went along thetop of the cliff and found abig troop of the long-hairedmonkeys. I clean missed onebig male that was dodging\ about looking at us, but knocked. / another off a ledge stone-dead. Skull of Male Klipspringer. i<^7 His companions seemed fairlyastonished, and ran about todifferent points of vantage,craning their necks to gazedown at the place where he had fallen. At first theydid not see us, but when they did they showed theirteeth and seemed to fairly shake with rage, while theirlanguage, if we could only have understood it, was,I am sure, more forcible than polite. Some six orseven dassies came out and solemnly gazed at themonkeys body. They seemed on the best of termswith the monkeys, sitting side by side with picked out one other very large male and rolled himdown close to his companion. It took a long time forHyde and another man to go round and down, in orderto brino- the skins back
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