152 SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE FOREST — THE TACKAZZEE AT LAST — A FORD — AN UNHEALTHY 

 CAMP — HIPPOPOTAMI — A RAFT — ON THE ELEPHANT TRACK — IN 

 SIGHT OF GAME — A LION AND A MESS — BIVOUACKING — BEGINNING 

 OF MY ILLNESS — GUINEA FOWL — WE TURN HOMEWARDS — " THE 



blues" — RAFT-BUILDING A CARAVAN — ELEPHANT AGAIN — A BIG 



fish! — 'NEWSPAPERS — CHANGE OF QUARTERS — THE GAME OF 

 "GALANIFT." 



Feb. 9. — To-day I was to take charge of the heavy 

 baggage and donkeys ; this we generally took it in 

 turns to do. I caught H. up at a river, where I 

 found them all drinking. He went on directly, and 

 I stopped for an hour to rest our twenty-one donkeys 

 and their drivers, and to let them have something 

 to drink. The country we were travelling through had 

 changed ; we were at a much lower level than we had 

 been before, and dome-palms grew in every direction, 

 the shorter and younger ones of which made a thick 

 jungle which we pushed our way through, the leaves 

 causing a great rattling as we went on. This was 

 much more my idea of an African forest than any- 

 thincr I had ever seen before. I saw a haeazin on the 



