94 SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



CHAPTER VI. 



A WART-HOG — "BRUNDO" BUTCHERING — AN "ETON BLUE" BIRD 

 — BABOONS — DESERTED VILLAGE^ — ROUGH WALKING— THE ABYS- 

 SINIAN ADAM AND EVE — JEALOUSY — THE PRIESTS— SAVAGE CUS- 

 TOMS — TAMARISK COVER — NATIVE SPORTSMEN — DANCING AND 

 SINGING — WANT OF A DOG— NEWS OF A LION — RED POCKET- 

 HANDKERCHIEFS AND THEIR EFFECT- " BORROWED PLUMES " — 

 THE JUNGLE ON FIRE — WE STEER WEST — "BLACKMAIL" — 

 SUMMARY JUSTICE. 



Jan. 23. — I started very early this morning, 

 before sunrise — or with the " morning star," as the 

 Abyssinians say — and went down the river to see 

 what sport I could find. It was so cold that I rode 

 out of camp on my mule, wrapped up in an Ulster. 

 Directly the sun rose it got warm, but up to that 

 time the air was very piercing. After going down the 

 river some little way we came to a large field of 

 Dargousa corn : here I stopped, and leaving my 

 mule in care of one of the servants, determined to 

 walk over some of the hills on the right bank of the 

 river and see what I could find. Goubasee, my gun- 

 bearer, was very anxious to stop and warm himself at 



