1 8o SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



liave food. At that moment the chief of the caravan 

 — or rather the man who is generally appointed to 

 lead these people through the country, and arrange 

 all payments to the customs — appeared. He made 

 everything all right, and we kept the flour ; and, as he 

 rode away to the place where they were going to stop 

 that night, he sent me back, by one of my servants, 

 some bread of his own. 



Feb. 26. — I find in my journal this day that I was 

 very ill, and vv^ent out in the morning and shot two brace 

 of little sand-grouse, as I had not had fresh meat for 

 some little time. I did not take any more medicine, as 

 I found it made me so weak. I caused the servants to 

 make me a large " das," long and narrow ; in one end I 

 used to sit most of the day, and in the other my guns 

 and what few provisions I had were hung up. They 

 watered the ground all round, and also the grass walls 

 of the " das," so that it made me pretty cool during the 

 heat of the da)', whilst the darkness kept the flies out : 

 certainly it was rather miserable w^ork feeling and 

 being ill all alone in the jungle ; indeed long before 

 this I ought to have started for home, as, when once 

 dysentery gets hold of you, nothing but complete 

 change of air, good food, and medicine, is likely to 

 eftect a cure. I still hung on to the thought that I 

 should get better, but, if I had known what was really 

 the matter, I should never have hesitated. 



