204 CLIFF OF FOSSIL SHELLS. 



from Shoa last year, and again visited this neigh- 

 bourhood; for the British Mission, whom I then 

 accompanied, retraced its former route, and we 

 halted on the very same spot they had done two 

 years before. This afforded me the opportunity of 

 fixing my comparisons of situation upon positive 

 data, but I shall not anticipate the result, as I 

 return to the subject again in relating the par- 

 ticulars of my second visit to this interesting 

 locality. 



A long morning having been occupied in writing, 

 discussing, and viewing, everything possible relative 

 to the situation of Lake Abhibhad, towards 

 evening I strolled about in the immediate precincts 

 of the camp, attended by Lohitu and Ohmed 

 Medina, the former having good sense enough 

 to think a crumbling bank of the embedded shells 

 would interest me, led me to a spot where I found 

 in great numbers, the spiral univalve I have before 

 alluded to. On our return to the camp, I shot one 

 of those small antelopes to which I believe the 

 Abyssinian traveller, Salt, has given his name. It 

 was not so large as a hare, but very elegantly 

 formed ; the head light and delicate, with promi- 

 nent black eyes, and little annulated straight horns. 

 Its colour was a dunnish or iron grey, the hair 

 rather coarse, I thought, for so small an animal. 

 I had not quite killed it, and Lohitu ran up, but 

 afraid of injuring his spear by missing his aim, and 

 striking only the ground, he kept shaking it in 



