A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia. A narrative of a nine months' journey from the plaines 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.

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London: Rowland West, 1902. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (xxiv, 532, 12pp.). With frontisp., num. illusts., and 2 fold. maps in rear end-pocket. Patterned end-papers. 1st ed. Fine crisp copy. NOTE: After the success of his sporting trip to Abyssinia, Powell-Cotton was determined to attempt another hunting expedition, this time to British East Africa, not only for sport, but also to prove the existence of the five-horned giraffe. Crossing the Tana, they spent time with the Kikuyu...On the Baringo Plain, trophy kudu was collected as well as lion. Powell-Cotton eventually bagged a five-horned giraffe before entering Masai territory.