1 78 SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



it was of very little use his stopping with me ; I 

 thought he had better move on with Barrakee, who 

 assured us that, in the country near his village on the 

 frontier, we should find very good shooting, even much 

 better than we had had before. H. left me a few 

 servants behind, and four or five donkeys. We were 

 getting short of flour, and we agreed that he should 

 go on to Barrakee's village, send me back flour for the 

 servants, and that I, on the day after he left, would 

 move up to Coom-Coom-Dema and stop there till the 

 flour arrived. Accordingly the next day he started 

 away in the morning. Just as he left, luckily I said 

 to him, " I think you had better leave me five dollars of 

 our money, in case of accidents." This was literally all 

 the coin I had with me when I started to go to the coast. 

 I started the next day for Coom-Coom-Dema, 

 and very nearly lost my way ; my gun-bearers did 

 not seem to remember it, and it was only by chance 

 that I recollected some trees and a low hill which 

 guided me across the plain to where we had been en- 

 camped before. When I arrived I felt very bad indeed, 

 and I was really exceedingly ill. The flour had run out, 

 and I had to serve out some rice that evening to my 

 servants ; for myself I had some biscuits to eat. I 

 hoped by the morning of the next day to receive flour 

 from H., but it never came, and the servants had no 

 food nearly all that day, except some scraps that 



