Seventeen trips through SomAliland / A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I ETHNOLOGY

CHAPTER II THE NOMADIC LIFE

CHAPTER III BIG GAME SHOOTING, 1887

CHAPTER IV GOVERNMENT EXPLORATIONS

CHAPTER V A RECONNAISSANCE OF THE ABYSSINIAN BORDER, 1892

CHAPTER VI A VISIT TO RAS MAKUNAN OF HARAR, 1893

CHAPTER VII FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABELEH RIVER, 1893

CHAPTER VIII FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABELEH RIVER ( continued )

CHAPTER IX THREE WEEKS' KOODOO STALKING ON GOLIS RANGE, 1893

CHAPTER X SECOND JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABELEH RIVER, 1893

CHAPTER XI NOTES ON THE WILD FAUNA OF SOMALILAND The Lion ( Felis leo )

APPENDIX I On fitting out SomAli Expeditions General Observations

APPENDIX II Physical Geography WITH NOTES ON PRONUNCIATION AND MEANING OF NATIVE NAMES

APPENDIX III Notes on SomAli Trade

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

SEVENTEEN TRIPS THROUGH SOMÁLILAND


The Author and his Escort.

From a Photograph taken at the noon bivouac, Ambal River, Habr Toljaala country, March 1891.

The exposure of the plate was carried out by a SomÁli.


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SEVENTEEN TRIPS
THROUGH
SOMÁLILAND

A RECORD OF EXPLORATION & BIG GAME
SHOOTING, 1885 to 1893

BEING THE NARRATIVE OF SEVERAL JOURNEYS IN THE HINTERLAND OF THE
SOMÁLI COAST PROTECTORATE, DATING FROM THE BEGINNING
OF ITS ADMINISTRATION BY GREAT BRITAIN
UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME
WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON THE WILD FAUNA OF THE COUNTRY,

BY
CAPTAIN H. G. C. SWAYNE, R.E.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

LONDON
ROWLAND WARD AND CO., LIMITED
‘THE JUNGLE,’ 166 PICCADILLY
1895

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