CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



How I came to visit Abyssinian-Departure from I.omlo 



at Marseilles and Aden- Zcila — Enrolling our foil 



-Camel inspection — Captain Harrington's ca 



—Detain the mail steamers 

 ■ers — Difficulties with men 



Start for the interi' 

 more camels - 

 — Higher gro 

 station — Less 

 from Iibuti 



CHAPTER n 



-Too much kit — First head of game — Headman sent back for 

 V night alarm — Native wells— Early marching — We are weighed 

 id and a pretty camp — A trying march kills camels— Camel-posi 



Kudu uround — Beira antelope— A run of bad luck- Travellers 



CHAPTER HI 



ling the L-.-cori- The devil's mountain— Hot springs— Gildessa— The Sluim calls 

 —We try our mules— French rifles for Menelik— A country of running water- 

 Camels dying— A red-letter day with lesser kudu— H. bags an anlbear— The 

 first klipspringer — Protecting our camp — Bad shooting . 21 



CHAPTER IV 



T.mibacca, chief of ihi- Oderali— Does France, Russia, or Italy rule England? 

 Blackmail — A rifle bent by ihe sun — Our shooting stopped — Tombacca's 

 village His ireaimenl of French travellers — Great demand for soap— Inso- 

 lence of natives A banipiet anil after-dinner speeches — Wanted, a son and heir 



