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 246
A SPORTJNG TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA CHAP. 214 I turned over the pages, they named the different beasts shown in the pictures. It evidently interested them, for, when I had done, they took the book and went all over it again, asking the names of those animals foreign to them. They said buffalo were… … Fitaurari Notori and Suite. explained its working. At first they could not under- stand the dummy cartridges, and edged away, as if half expecting me to shoot some one, but, when I finally fired five shots in rapid succession in the air, they were full of admiration for the little weapon. I then…
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