38 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA chap. 



roared with laughter at the incident. We then turned 

 and cantered after H. and the caravan. 



Camp that night was pitched at Toluk, close to a 

 large party of Abyssinian soldiers, who had been on 

 some sort of mission to Tombacca, and were returning 

 to Ad is Ababa. As we moved off next morning, we saw 

 a jackal sitting on the top of a conical ant-hill some 

 I 20 yards from the track. I proved that the .256 was 

 all right again by rolling him over, shot through the 

 heart. We crossed a big plain and saw large herds of 

 aul, but they were very shy. H. and W^. tried after 

 one lot, but without success. We camped that night 

 at Gumleh, near the foot of Frugdeha, a solitary rocky 

 hill which rises 1000 feet above the plain. B. and W. 

 accompanied Clarke to the summit, where he got the 

 bearings of various other peaks, and mappeci in the 

 country round. On their way down they saw some 

 sassa. In the evening an unsuspecting aul came and 

 fed close to the camp, H. bagging it with a couple of 

 shots. Just at dusk Mahomed rejoined us from Bulbar, 

 where he had to go to buy camels, none being procur- 

 able at Zeila. He reported that he had made it all 

 right with Tombacca, who had promised to send on 

 our men and camels in charge of a guide, as soon as 

 they should arrive. 



Next morning, while the others started on their 

 journey, I climbed Frugdeha, and with the glasses soon 

 located three sassa, but unfortunately they also located 

 us, and moved off before I could get a shot. A long, 

 hot scramble along the rocky hillside was followed by 

 a crawl to the edge of a precipice, when I saw one 



