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since we had seen the caravan, — which was like a home to 
and great appeared to be the delight of the boys as 
us, 
they gathered around Fred and myself. 
I told Fred about the new antelope I had seen, and he 
spent the next day hunting it, while I employed my time 
arranging stores and taking observations. On boiling a 
thermometer I found the elevation of Sheikh Mohammed 
toube-7,200 teet. 
The Abyssinian commissioned by Wal-da-Gubbra to 
provide food for us only brought two sacks of unthrashed 
oats, and upon my upbraiding him for not ‘supplying 
proper food, he replied that his country was very poor, 
and that he had brought all he had. After threatening to 
report him to his master, however, he promised to fetch 
better food in the morning. Fred came in after a success- 
ful day’s hunt, bearing a fine male specimen of the antelope 
I had seen, which proved to be an Abyssinian duiker 
(Cephalophus abyssinicus). 
We spent a whole week more at Sheikh Mohammed, 
waiting for a reply to my letter to Emperor Menelek. It 
was very cold, and there were frequent showers, causing 
us great discomfort. Many observations taken during the 
nights and days gave a mean temperature of 59° Fahr., 
the mercury falling as low as 44° at night. Several of 
the camels died from the effects of the climate, and many 
more were sick. 
There was much iron ore about this region, and also 
many evidences of volcanic action. Only a mile and a 
half from the camp was the crater of an extinct volcano, and 
at the bottom of this was a little marshy lake. I was fortu- 
nate in shooting in this high country several specimens of a 
beautiful turacus, which we found only in the dense cedar 
forests about here. The bird proved to be a new species, 
and has been named by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, Zuracus 
