20 SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



CHAPTER II. 



OUR EQUIPMENT — TENTS AND BEDS — COMMISSARIAT — THE KITCHEN 

 — MULES, THEIR HABITS AND TREATMENT^CAMELS — UP COUNTRY 

 — MY FIRST BAG — SILVER CUPS — A WILD BOAR — AILET — OUR ES- 

 CORT — THE FIRST OF THE JUNGLE — SWEDISH MISSIONARIES — AN 

 ABYSSINIAN " SPA " — A HOT BATH — THE " RAINS " — THRASHING 

 THE TENTS. 



Before taking the reader any farther into Abyssinia 

 I must say something about our equipment ; what 

 tents we had, and what description of provisions. 



We took Avith us two tents ; a three-poled tent 

 made by Edgington, and called by him the Punjab 

 Hill tent. I should advise everybody to take this 

 description of tent for rough work in any country. 

 Head room is what is Avanted for comfort ; and this is 

 the only strong, portable, and shapely tent that com- 

 bines those advantages. Mr. Galton, in his most 

 useful little book, the 'Art of Travel,' says very 

 nearly the same thing. We had a little Union Jack 

 to fly at the top of it, and iron tent pegs Of course 

 these tents can be made of any reasonable size. The 

 other — a tente d'adri—wsis for Fisk, H.'s English 



