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A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 



On 22nd April, the Abyssinian Easter Sunday, my 

 men were most anxious to get some meat, so I started 

 early and soon found a solitary tora, but he saw us, gave 

 a cry of alarm, and bolted. To my surprise, when a 

 long way off I saw him 

 stop, turn round, and 

 slowly walk back towards 

 us. As he approached, I 

 saw that he would pass us 

 rather wide, so I tried to 

 get nearer, while a tree 

 hid him ; but he spotted 

 me at once, and turned 

 towards me, his head only 

 showing above the high 

 grass. Judging where his 

 body should be, I fired, 

 and ran up to find him shot 

 dead through the chest. 

 Leaving some of the men 

 to skin the carcase, I went 

 Skull of Tora. on, and soon saw a small 



herd oi tour tora on the 

 move ; we followed them into si.x-foot grass, which 

 was cut up in every direction by elephant and 

 buffalo tracks made in the heavy rains, and for a time 

 lost them. At last, from a little hill-top, near which 

 some oribi were feeding, I saw them on an open 

 patch of shorter grass. I crawled to the shelter of 

 a bush and lay watching them, for they were too far 

 off to shoot ; suddenly they gazed into the distance, 



