SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



CHAPTER I. 



CAIRO — THE KHEDIVE "AT HOME "—THE PYRAMIDS — PETROS, OUR 

 CONDUCTOR — SUEZ — OUR PROVISIONS— THE START FROM SUE;Z — ON 

 BOARD THE DESSOOK — SOUAKIM — A USEFUL WEAPON — MASSOWAH 

 — NATIVE FISHERMEN — PEARLS — OUR FIRST ENCAMPMENT— ARTI- 

 FICIAL SHADE — "MY battery" — "EN ROUTE" — ON CAMEL-BACK 

 — THE FIRST SHOT — AND MISS— A NEW METHOD OF LOADING — 

 PICK-A-BACK — THE RESULT — ARREKEL BEY — WATER SUPPLY — OUR 

 PARTY DIVIDES — A VULTURE TRAP — BAGGAGE TRAIN — CONVICT 

 LABOUR — A TURKISH DINNER-PARTY — THE CORPS DE BALLET. 



" In youth's wild days, it cannot but be pleasant 

 This idle roaming, round and round the world." 



GOETHE. 



Not to trouble the reader with an account of the 

 route to India, via Brindisi, I will commence the nar- 

 rative of my adventures at Cairo, where most of the 

 party who were going to shoot in Abyssinia were 

 assembled. 



We had a very jolly time of it at Cairo, and 

 amused ourselves in the usual way, by riding donkeys 

 through the bazaars and trying to win money from 

 the Greeks, who keep all the gambling-houses. Of 

 course most of the time was employed in making 



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