72 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
rhinoceros four. Five days after leaving Ginea I went to 
meet Donald, and spent the night at the village, where I 
expected to find him; but he did not turn up. I had no 
one with me who could speak Galla, and had run out of 
food, and the natives, for what reason I could not under- 
stand, had turned nasty and refused to give us anything, 
whilst only a few days before when I had camped there 
they had showered eatables into the camp. With the few 
words of Galla at our disposal we tried to find out if Don- 
ald had passed, and we gathered that he had gone another 
way. 
“The following morning we started towards Sheikh Hu- 
sein, when the natives barred the way and pointed to Ginea. 
We marched on, however, and at first I thought we were 
in for a row, so persistently did the natives try to stop us. 
At last they brought a sheep, honey, milk, and durrha, and 
begged us to stop; but, not knowing what had become of 
Donald, I marched on. About the middie of the day I 
found the path cleared, then large trees cut down, then in 
a bad place the path had been turned to the side and a 
way cut fresh through the jungle, so as to allow a camel to 
pass easily along. 
“What did it all mean? At first I could not make out, 
and thought that perhaps the Shoan army had marched on 
Sheikh Husein; soon, however, I met a native, and asking 
him what it meant, he said, ‘ Feringi’ (European), and not 
long after I met Donald. All this work had been done to 
allow him to come easily to Ginea, and was the greatest 
honor old Gubbra could pay him. To say it was joyful 
meeting again does not describe it; and when the table 
was set under the shade of a large euphorbia and we fell 
to, life seemed at its pleasantest.” 
