CHAPTER IV. 



MY AFRICAN EXPEDITION. 



TIIKUI; may now be given some information 

 about the expedition whose adventures in 

 Southern and Central Africa and India we have 

 set out to tell. 



The rule with the hunting parties which leave Suakem for the interior of Abys- 

 sinia is to take thirty days for the journey into the desert and forty days to return, 

 the greater period being necessary to transport the captures made 



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