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 418
386 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA CHAP. the proceeding. A priest, who accompanied them, pro- tected himself with my field-glasses — on the principle of devil fight devil, I suppose — while the other chief men carefully covered their mouths and nostrils with their shammas. In less than an hour… … Group of Tigreans. where I was informed another guide would be found. While waiting for the latter, I examined a small dome- shaped sandstone hill, in which my men seemed to be taking a great interest. They told me the tradition was that the hill enclosed a magnificent church, to which once upon a…
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