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Title: Sport in Abyssinia; or, The Mareb and Tackazzee
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Mayo, Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, Earl of, b. 1851
Subjects: Hunting -- Ethiopia Ethiopia -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-craft.I would recommend all sportsmen who hunt in a wild country to adapt their dress as much as possible to the colour of the landscape in which they find them-selves. I always shot in brown cord breeches and flax gaiters, with a good cumberbund* round my waist, and a short-tailed coat, which was made of strong cotton stuff that I bought in India. All the servants with us, as well as the followers of the young chief, were in a tremendous fright because of the Baria, the negro tribe of which I spoke before,and who came up to this part of the country to hunt the elephant, and also to kill whatever Abyssinians they could find. I myself never saw one of these redoubtable natives, nor do I believe they would attempt to attack a well-armed party; but in the evening, over the camp fire, many terrible stories were told of how So-and-so was murdered, and how * Cumberbund is an Indian word for a thick scarf which is wound round and round the waist; it is a great preventive against sun-stroke and chills.
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SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 147 cunning and treacherous the Baria were. )-5rou, the interpreter, was not behindhand in telling us all sorts of terrible things about them. One story he told us was this : There was a man who lived in a village close to the frontier, and who had to pay tribute to the chief of his province in ivory. He had gone down to the desert, or jungle, to hunt the elephant alone ; a wily Baria following him most of the time. It should be stated that this tribe of natives have no fire-arms, and only hunt and destroy with spears and knives. The elephant-hunter was stalking an elephant, and had come up to him ; at the moment he fired, the Baria, who had been sneaking after him, jumped up from behind, drove his knife into him,and killed him. This is a good example of their treachery ; but the Abyssinians are just as much to blame in regard to the Baria or Shangallas, for when-ever the Abyssinians catch them in much smaller numbers than themselves they generally kill them. Feb. 7.—H. went on

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