12 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA chap. 



the clips would not fit the .256, had to file them 

 down. When I had finished, the others came back, 

 having shot an aul and a lowland gazelle {G. peheini). 

 After breakfast, we decided to send back eleven loads 

 of rice packed on eight camels, and instructed Mahomed 

 to buy fifteen more camels to bring on these and the other 

 three loads left behind. In the afternoon we marched, 

 and I managed to knock over a pair of aul out of a herd 

 of fourteen or fifteen. The moon was shining brightly 

 when we reached camp, at Ashado with the skins and 

 meat. In the small hours the camp was aroused by 

 a blood-curdling yell ; the sentries sprang towards the 

 tent from which the sound proceeded, the camels broke 

 their knee-ropes and started to stampede, and affrighted 

 natives seized their rifles. Being a light sleeper, I was 

 the first to turn out, only to find that the commotion 

 was caused by B., who had given a view holloa while 

 dreaming of galloping lions to a standstill. 



After marching to Arrhi Halleis we employed part of 

 the next afternoon in cutting each other's hair, and a 

 poor job we made of it. In the evening H. got a wart- 

 hog {Phacochcvr-us cethiopiciis), which we all lent a hand 

 in skinning, as the second shikaris, although Mingans, 

 refused, declaring that, if they handled the hog, the other 

 Somalis would not associate or eat with them. Next 

 morning, H. decided to make a longer march, and, as the 

 last day's journey had been too hot and trying for the 

 camels, a much earlier start ; so, just as a cool breeze 

 was following a stifling night, we turned out at 2 A.^r., 

 had a cup of cocoa, and, after much bustle of men and 

 beasts, started at 3.15, marching till 8.40, when we 



