A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives (1902)
Powell-Cotton, P. H. G. (Percy Horace Gordon), 1866-1940, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : R. Ward · leaf 177
DESPATCH OUR TROPHIES XIV 145 For four days we were all hard at work numbering our trophies, making the skins into bales, boiling and taking the horns off skulls, and packing them in barrels for transport to the coast. In view of my new pro- gramme for a solitary journey to the north, provisions… … Despatch of Trophies to the Coast. lists made, and everything repacked and arranged in loads of equal weights. Although the rest and grass had much improved the condition of many of our camels, there were still several unfit for work ; so application was made to the local Shum, to endeavour to…
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