SPORT AND TRAVEL 13 



wards the plain beyond the pass, we saw a good many 

 of the small hill cattle of Asia Minor, which reminded 

 me a good deal of the native breed of cattle found in 

 Mashonaland, and in the countries north of the Zam- 



TURKISH VILLAGE IN THE INTERIOR OF ASIA MINOR 



besi ; the African breed is, however, the handsomer of 

 the two, and somewhat less diminutive. 



Towards evening we reached a small village at the 

 foot of a steep hill, and, as the sun was nearly down, 

 decided to camp, and on our wishes being made known 

 to the head man, we were escorted by him and the 

 entire village population to a small field immedi- 

 ately behind his cottage, at the bottom of which ran a 



