Un voyage dans l'Abyssinie sportives : un récit d'un voyage de neuf mois, les plaines de l'Hawash aux neiges du Simien, avec une description du jeu, de l'éléphant à ibex, et des notes sur les mœurs et coutumes des indigènes . f breadand la confiture. Alors que je mangeais ce repas frugal, anArab est venu et salaamed, qui venait d'arriver d'Abyssinie withsome les commerçants de Khartoum. Il hehad vécu pendant huit ans, et a conservé un petit magasin, theDervishes le laissant en paix, jusqu'à ce que nous avons commencé sur thefinal expédition à Omdurman, lorsqu'ils ont pillé et hisstore a essayé de vendre comme esclave ; mais, comme th

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A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives . f breadand jam. While I was eating this frugal meal, anArab came up and salaamed, who had just arrived withsome Abyssinian traders from Khartoum. There hehad lived for eight years, and kept a small shop, theDervishes leaving him in peace, until we started on thefinal expedition to Omdurman, when they looted hisstore and tried to sell him as a slave ; but, as therewere no bidders, he was turned loose to starve. Whenthe British arrived, he had been given clothes andmoney and started on his way to Aden, where he saidhe had a brother. On his arrival at Gondar, hearing CHAP. XXVIII A DESCENDANT OF EMPERORS 317 there was an Englishman in the place, he had cometo announce his intention of joining my caravan. Thishe did, and remained with me off and on till I reachedAsmara, where he found work. Later in the afternoon the Shum in charge of thetown came down with a small present of bread, and satwaiting a long time for other provisions which he hadordered to be brought me. He was a handsome old. A HORSES Mausoleum. man, with a fine cast of features, and seemed to feeldeeply the way in which his commands were neglected.During my stay at Gondar we became great friends ;he traced his descent from Yasous The Great, andused to recount to me tales of the past greatness of thepalace of his forebears. Close to my camp, and justoutside the walled enclosure of one of the ruinedchurches, was a small circular domed building, whichreminded me of the mausoleums round Delhi. TheShum told me it was built by the emperor Fasildas 3i8 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA chap. over the remains of a favourite horse which had carriedhim all through his campaign in Sennar; during thisit was wounded, but lived till its return to Gondar. Thebuilding had two entirely sep

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