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 350
306 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA chap. wilder. The hartebeests are rather tame, and they and the Soemmerring’s gazelles are always the last to move away. Hartebeests have great curiosity, and will frequently rush round a caravan, halting now and then within two hundred yards to gaze. This sight… … Length of horns on curve, 20 j inches. having heavy and powerful fore-quarters, while the hind-quarters are poor and fall away ; the coat is glossy like that of a well- groomed horse. In the mid-day haze of the plains they look something like troops of lions, as the powerful head and neck are of a…
Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920 · Swayne, H. G. C. (Harald G. C.) · Ethnology · Zoology · Hunting
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