204 SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



England ; the account of the sport he had I give 

 hereafter. 



Towards the evening I started for Adikai, a village 

 u^e had camped in before. The man who had ac- 

 cused me of shooting his brother and called me a 

 robber came to say good-bye to me, and we parted 

 the best of friends. I tried to find out who the tall 

 Abyssinian was who had helped me out of the 

 scrape and had taken me by the hand and led me 

 through the crowd, but he had disappeared, and no 

 one knew who or where he was ; I believe he was 

 a king's soldier who was stationed here to collect 

 the customs. I had an easy march to Adikai, and 

 when I got to the village my servants told me that 

 Zaroo, my old friend the chief of the caravan, who 

 had made his people carry my palanquin, lived close 

 by. Shortly afterwards he came to see me, and 

 brought me some Dargousa beer, which had been 

 kept for some time and which was pretty good. I 

 was kept awake half the night by the barking of the 

 village curs : at last, at my entreaties, some ballagas 

 turned out and tried to stop them, but it was of no 

 use. A crying baby in a hut close by also enlivened 

 the night by its yells ; so I sent to the mother of 

 the child and told her to give it some milk, which 

 seemed to quiet it. 



MarcJi 13. — The people of this village were much 



