SFOR T IN A BYSSINIA . 3 1 



brought into shape again. One of the gun-bcarcrs 

 should always cany the bowl, so that the traxeller 

 may have it at hand to dip into the stream and drink 

 from ; the brightness of the silver shows whether the 

 water is fit to drink. In Abyssinia the natives do 

 not understand silver vessels, and set no value on 

 them, thinking they are tin ; but in other countries 

 they might easily be stolen. 



The camping-place of Sahatee is surrounded by 

 rocks. There are two trees on a little knoll in the 

 centre, and it was under one of these I was lying 

 when H. appeared with the camels, the tents and 

 baggage. We pitched the little tent in the bed of the 

 dried-up river, whence, during the rains, the water 

 dashes over the rocks and flows away to the sea. 

 After we had had something to eat, H. said he was 

 a-oing out shooting, one of the Arabs in charge of 

 the camels telling him that wild pigs abounded here. 

 He had not long gone out of camp before I heard 

 the crack of his rifle. He had wounded a boar in the 

 hind quarter, as it was coming to drink ; but the boar 

 trotted away, leaving blood tracks, which H. and 

 the Arab tried to follow up, but soon lost them in 

 the dust and the hard-baked ground of the jungle. 

 When I heard the shots I started off also to try 

 and find a boar, but was not so lucky. I got back 

 about an hour before dusk, and saw several of the 



