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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 281

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coming within range. It became very exciting listening to the shouts from the jungle below and the answering shouts from the other gorge, and more so as, warned by the rattle of displaced stones and the crashing of bushes, I turned my eyes and saw the koodoo at the point of intersection of the two… … There was suspense for a moment or two, and then with another crash he emerged from the jungle and galloped along the opposite hillside, straight for the tree. I held for the front of his shoulder, just clear of his body, and as he neared the tree fired. Looking under the smoke I observed him still…

Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920 · Swayne, H. G. C. (Harald G. C.) · Ethnology · Zoology · Hunting

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