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Title: 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
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Powell-Cotton, P. H. G. (Percy Horace Gordon), 1866-1940
Subjects: Hunting -- Ethiopia
Publisher: London : Rowland Ward
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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root in, began to clothe the hill-sidewith verdure, while the streams gathered volume fromtributary rills, till they became foaming torrents, whichrushed down the mountain side in a succession ofcataracts and rapids. We camped on the first level bit of ground we cameto, just before heavy rain began. I found, on examina-tion, that the ibex-skins had hardly dried at all owing tothe continual cloud and mist we had lived in, so, to savethem, I took them into my tent, the atmosphere of whichby morning I leave to be imagined by any one whoknows the smell of fresh wild-goat skins. Next daywe descended through luxurious vegetation of almost 378 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA tropical growth, having to force a way for the ladenmules along the narrow path by the river-side, a pathovergrown with bush and blocked by dead tree-trunks,which a network of creepers often kept suspended in mid-air. Big cactus trees, orchids, and ferns grew everywherein profusion. Before we reached the borders of the
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The Road from Simien. cultivated ground, after two and a half hours march, wesaw a big troop of grey-haired monkeys travelling alongthe opposite bank, at which I tried, though unsuccess-fully, to get a shot. The villagers had been anxious forus to halt as soon as we reached the first hamlet—Ithink in order to report my arrival—but I kept on foranother half-hour, and then camped on a bit of levelground below the terraced village of Abbinar, where thebarley was six inches high, while at Lurey they wereonly just beginning to plough the land. Soon four head-men eathered round me, full of talk, and brin^inor various AN EXCITED SHUM 379 presents : I went through the usual routine, giving theman egg-cupful of rum each, showing them my rifles,etc. It kept fine till four oclock, and we were able tosun all the loads, and get the raw skins partly dry.While thus occupied, we were provided with muchamusement by an old Shum, who worked himself upinto a frantic state of excitement over the refus

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