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from any expense that may increase the chances of 
SUCCESS.” 
We remained at Baudewain to do more trading. The 
natives have a rich and well-fed appearance, their spears 
and shields newly burnished, and their clean white tobes 
making them look very smart. According to their report, 
the atrocities perpetrated by the Abyssinians in almost all 
of the rest of the Ogaden country were brutal to the last 
degree, — these “ Christians ” having devastated the whole 
country, killing the men and women they did not wish 
to carry off as slaves. At Sessabane they piled the 
mutilated remains of men and women into a huge pile, 
and then enjoyed a great dance around this grewsome 
object. 
Lions were reported to have killed a pony and half eaten 
the carcass, so Fred and I| thought that the animals would 
visit the spot again. We had two zarebas built near the 
body of the dead pony, into one of which Fred and his 
gun-bearer crept for the night, while Dodson and I kept 
watch in the other one. The lions did not appear, but 
swarms of hyenas amused us as they howled and laughed 
about the carcass. Atone time some twenty hyenas seized 
the pony and dragged it at a fast run fifty yards without 
stopping. The power of these brutes is enormous. I saw 
one of them pull the horn out of a goat which had been 
fastened to a stake, and with another bite tear off the 
whole hind-leg. If the hyenas only knew their strength 
they would be among the most formidable animals in 
Africa. They occasionally kill old men and women or 
children, but I have never heard of their attacking a man 
able to defend himself. 
The next march led us through a very dry and barren 
country, the sun’s rays seeming to turn everything toa 
white heat, while the glare on the white clayey earth was 
