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.

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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I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY BRAVE AND INTELLIGENT SOMÁLI FOLLOWERS