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 382

An illustration from 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, leaf 382 — A SPORTING TRIP THRO NGN ABYSSINIA 35o CHAP. mountain stream which formed a series of cascades. Leaving the solitary mountain of Wukkan on our left, we passed into a more bushy country, in which I got a couple of duiker and wounded a wolf, the only one I had seen for a long time. We camped close to… … Processional Crosses, Missal, and Priestly Crutches from Gondar.'i '! the ordinary scarecrows dotted about, there were several raised platforms, from which, by means of strings sup- ported on props, the occupant could jiggle long lines of rags. This sentinel was armed with a sling, as were likewise…

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