SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 45 



Gindar has been given by the king to General 

 Kirkham, who has built a house, and has also allowed 

 the missionaries to build one. He intends trying to 

 start a bazaar and small town to supply travellers 

 going and coming to Massowah ; and also to supply 

 the Abyssinian merchants with the little European 

 necessaries they require there without having to go 

 into Egyptian territory to buy them, which at present 

 they have to do at Massowah. 



I thought I would take a turn with my gun ; it was 

 a misty evening, and too late to go out shooting. I 

 wandered over the hills, and, the light failing, I was 

 " making tracks " for home ; it got darker and darker, 

 and the mist got thicker. The little Galla boy that 

 Kirkham had sent with me to show me the way, was 

 a stranger to these hills ; he never lost heart once nor 

 spoke a word: at last he uttered a sort of whine; I then 

 knew I had better trust to myself I had seen, about 

 a quarter of an hour before, the light of the fires of 

 an Arab cattle station ; I resolved to try and see the 

 light again ; so I fired my gun off twice to attract the 

 attention of those in camp, but I was between hills, 

 and they did not hear. I was pushing through the 

 wet bushes when down I slipped, head over heels, on 

 some creeper-covered rocks, but I picked myself up, 

 with no harm beyond a fright. I was determined to 

 find the light again ; and, forcing my way through the 



