THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
was a large stretch of cultivated land, and several groups of huts, 
forming the village of Lurey. 
“ Although I had a special letter from the Emperor Menelik to the 
Governor of Simien, and from the latter to the different headmen, 
they placed every sort of passive obstruction in the way of my shooting 
ibex, and one and all seemed most anxious to get me out of the country 
as quickly as possible, in spite of their receiving all the meat killed, 
besides presents and liberal rewards.” 
As this interesting account of the Abyssinian ibex was written more 
than ten years ago, and as that fine animal was even then becoming 
scarce, and was entirely confined to a very limited range of country, it 
is to be feared that it must now be on the very verge of extinction, since 
the Abyssinian tribesmen by whom Mayor Powell -Cotton tells us it is 
constantly hunted have now become possessed, almost to the last man, of 
arms of precision. 
