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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 215

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183 START NORTH XVII said, and my home letters handed over, I set out at 3 p.m. on my long journey north. … Abyssinian Weapons. Passing the Italian Embassy, I struck out for the hills to the west of Entotto. Two hours’ ride took me to the top of the ridge, from which I got my last glimpse of the British Agency. A short distance down the other side brought me to the little stream called Salultar, along…

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