Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5): In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773Bruce, James
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Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5): In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773
Bruce, James
Egypt -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- History; Natural history -- Ethiopia; Nile River
A Boar, roused on our right, had wounded a horse and a footman of Ayto
Confu, and then escaped. Two buffaloes were found by those on the
right, one of which wounded a horse likewise. Ayto Confu, Engedan,
Guebra Mariam, and myself, killed the other with equal share of
merit, without being in any sort of danger. All this was in little
more than an hour, when our sport seemed to be at the best; our
horses were considerably blown, not tired, and though we were beating
homewards, still we were looking very keenly for more game. Ammonios
was on the left among the bushes, and some large, beautiful, tall
spreading-trees, close on the banks of the river Bedowi, which stands
there in pools. Whether the buffalo found Ammonios, or Ammonios the
buffalo, is what we could never get him to explain to us; but he had
wounded the beast slightly in the buttock, which, in return, had gored
his horse, and thrown both him and it to the ground. Luckily, however,
his cloak had fallen off, which the buffalo tore in pieces, and
employed himself for a minute with that and with the horse, but then
left them, and followed the man as soon as he saw him rise and run.
Ammonios got behind one large tree, and from that to another still
larger. The buffalo turned very aukwardly, but kept close in pursuit;
and there was no doubt he would have worn our friend out, who was not
used to such quick motion. Ayto Engedan, who was near him, and might
have assisted him, was laughing, ready to die at the droll figure a
man of Ammonios's grave carriage made, running and skipping about
naked, with a swiftness he had never practised all his life before;
and Engedan continued calling to Confu to partake of the diversion.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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