. Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile; the country, people, customs, etc. Interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc., accompanied by expert native sword hunters . rodetowards a pyramidical hill about three miles distant,which I intended to ascend in order to obtain a pano-ramic view of the country. This hill was about threehundred feet high, and as the fire had swept away aportion of the grass for several miles around, I shouldobtain a clear view of all
. Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia : the sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile; the country, people, customs, etc. Interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc., accompanied by expert native sword hunters . rodetowards a pyramidical hill about three miles distant,which I intended to ascend in order to obtain a pano-ramic view of the country. This hill was about threehundred feet high, and as the fire had swept away aportion of the grass for several miles around, I shouldobtain a clear view of all living animals that mightbe in the neighborhood. Upon arrival at the base ofthe hill I dismounted, and led my horse up the steepinclination of broken basalt that had fallen from thesummit. From the top of the peak I had a superbpanorama of the country, the mountain Nahoot Gud-dabi bearing S. W. about thirty miles distant. I hada complete birds-eye view of great extent, and I im-mediately distinguished, in various positions, giraffes,bufialoes, t^tel, and boars. At this season the treeswere leafless, so that any animal upon the low groundwould be at once discovered from this elevated extract from my journal the account of this dayshunt, as it was written immediately upon my returnto CHAP. XIX.] VIEW FROM THE PEAK. 505 I had been observing the country for some timefrom my high station, when I suddenly perceived tworhinoceros emerge from a ravine; they walked slowlythrough a patch of high grass, and skirted the base ofthe hill upon which we were standing: presently theywinded something, and they trotted back and stoodconcealed in the patch of grass. Although I had agood view of them from my present position, I knewthat I should not be able to see them in their covertif on the same level; I therefore determined to sendto the tent for my other horses, and to ride themdown if I could not shoot them on foot; accordingly,I sent a man off, directing him to lead Tetel from
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