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 370
326 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA chap. themselves with, by taking shots at marks, and the native officer, who had been strolling about below the cliffs, fired a shot at an old male baboon and brought him down. I was in camp, and on hearing a hot fire going on, ran out, thinking we were attacked… … FEMALE PLATEAU GAZELLE (Gazellci spekei). Length of horns on curve, average 9 inches. man had been sent up to the base of the cliffs to get the body of the baboon, and had been attacked by the whole troop from above, having to beat a hasty retreat under cover of the fire from several Sniders, and…
Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan, 1864-1920 · Swayne, H. G. C. (Harald G. C.) · Ethnology · Zoology · Hunting
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