Seventeen trips through Somaliland and a visit to Abyssinia : with supplementary preface on the 'Mad Mullah' risings (1903)
Swayne, H. G. C. (Harald G. C.), Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Rowland Ward, Limited, 'The Jungle' ... · leaf 224
the four -bore to my shoulder. The action was seen, for the beast trotted forward a few steps, and then galloped across the slabs of rock for a path which ascended the bank on my side of the river, and led behind my shelter. I fired at his shoulder hurriedly, and, sad to say, heard no answering… … ceased but the animal’s breathing, which we could hear distinctly, close to and above us, only separated from us by the stout interlaced branches of the back of our “box.” We stood with rifles at the “charge,” ready to fire and throw ourselves down into the river-bed should his ugly head and horns…
Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920 · Swayne, H. G. C. (Harald G. C.) · Ethnology · Zoology · Hunting
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