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 310
266 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSDV/A CHAP. Hence the choice of my new hiding-place. I spread my bed on the flat top of the tree, fourteen feet from the ground. It was like a spring mattress, gently waving before a cool breeze ; and we slept beautifully most of the night, hung up in the air, with a… … HEAD OF BAIRA ANTELOPE. (Shot by Lord Delamere.) karia six miles distant to the north, where a lioness had seized a small goat in sight of the karia people ; but the sheep and camels had since been driven over the tracks, and we lost her. I remained in camp on the 15th to let the skin of the lion…
Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920 · Swayne, H. G. C. (Harald G. C.) · Ethnology · Zoology · Hunting
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