SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



ampton by the P. and O. steamer, and I was delighted 

 to have arranged so nicely with him as to suit our 

 mutual convenience. 



I learnt that my provisions had all arrived safely 

 by the P. and O., but not my heavy guns nor ammu- 

 nition. What had become of them I could not make 

 out, as Rigby, of St. James's Street, had most distinct 

 orders in writing to send them to Suez. It turned 

 out afterwards that the P. and O. Company, through 

 carelessness, had sent the guns on to Pointe de Galle ; 

 they arrived in Abyssinia the day before we started 

 for the Tackazzee, where the big game is to be found. 

 H. and I were hard at work for two days shifting 

 the provisions from the big boxes in which they had 

 come out into smaller ones, in order that these might 

 be carried on camels and mules. I bought a few 

 necessary articles at the P. and O. stores, such as a 

 large frying-pan, a common kettle, etc., for rough 

 camping work ; most of the other things I had pur- 

 chased in London, and I would recommend all other 

 travellers to do the same. I bought all my provi- 

 sions from the Army and Navy Co-operative Stores, 

 Victoria Street ; and I take this opportunity of 

 stating that, not only were they so well packed that 

 nothing was broken, but also that during the very 

 great heat and exceedingly dry cold winds in Abys- 

 sinia not one thing failed, and every article of the 



