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 . ned in the evening, so nextmorning the caravan was once more on the march,while I called to say farewell to Ledj Marcha, and pre-sented him with various little delicacies I could spare,as well as a mule which had fallen lame. This lastgift he hardly seemed to appreciate, so that I regrettednot having accepted the $20 which a merchant hadoffered me. Passing a bi
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 . ned in the evening, so nextmorning the caravan was once more on the march,while I called to say farewell to Ledj Marcha, and pre-sented him with various little delicacies I could spare,as well as a mule which had fallen lame. This lastgift he hardly seemed to appreciate, so that I regrettednot having accepted the $20 which a merchant hadoffered me. Passing a big camp of soldiers, part ofthe forces of the new governor of Tigre, we climbeda steep hill and found the Dedjatch, with a crowdround him, attending to various business in the my approach he had a carpet spread, and expressed 422 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA chap. his regret at not having been here on my arrival, andthe hope that everything I wanted had been done. Igave him the Emperors letter to Ras Makunnen forhim to return to the writer, as the Ras had left Tigre,and got from him an order for all my caravan to beallowed to pass the frontier sentry at Daro beyond the spot where we were seated, on a spur. A Church near Adua. of the hills running- out into the plain, was a walledenclosure, with a large, square building in the centre ;away to our right rose one of the conical hills dotted roundAdua, which, with the plain at our feet stretching awayinto the distance, made up a typical Tigrean landscape. Daro Tuckey crowns the edge of the plateautowards the valley of the Mareb: there is no waternear the village and very little level ground. The manin charge of the post seemed to levy blackmail on alltravellers ; the only distinction he made between them XXXVI A SIGN OF MOURNING 423 being to exact a double amount from those who had nopassport, though I, of course, was exempt. I noticedthat nearly all the women about the place had deepscratches on their templ
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