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 468
A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 43 6 CHAP. building operations. At the club I met Mr. Nathan of the Erythrean Goldfields Company, who have started work not far from the capital, and also Mr. Hornibrook, a mining expert from New Zealand, who had come over to give them his advice. I saw some… … Major Elia and his Orderly. mules, donkeys, and camp-kit. There was very little demand for anything, except good riding mules, but, as the only two I possessed had died on the way, this did not benefit me. Finally, after much bargaining, I sold all the beasts in a batch to the agent of a transport…
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