28 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
European once more.‘ Capt. €. J) Percival, R. A;, crossed 
our line of march on his way north. He was the only 
white man, except ourselves, who had penetrated so far 
into this country. He told me, when I saw him afterwards 
in Aden, that after he had left us in the jungle, he had 
been called to a village to attend to one or two natives who 
had been wounded bya lion. This lion had been the pest 
of the natives for some weeks, and they had resolved to 
end his life. Having gathered together in force to wait 
for him, they attacked him from all sides as he leaped into 
their village, armed, as usual, only with their spears. In 
the fight one of them had been killed, and two others 
badly cut up, but the plucky natives had killed their 
animal. 
We now made a double march, stopping at midday 
on the Tug Lummo, where there is excellent water all the 
year round in pools. I was at the mercy of the most 
ignorant guides, who did not seem to know their way at 
all. They had led us over the worst country imaginable, 
where we had to chop, dig, and roll stones aside at frequent 
intervals. 
