CHARTER esi: 
I AM OBLIGED TO SEIZE NATIVE CAMELS — ELEPHANT SHOOTING — WAL- 
LER’s GAZELLES — THE NATIVES ARE PLEASED — THE Sakuyu BoRAN 
— THe BoraN AND THEIR KING, ABOFILATO— ELEPHANTS AT CLOSE 
QUARTERS — CHARGED BY A RHINOCEROS — IN THE COUNTRY OF THE 
BORAN. 
FEW minutes after we had pitched camp, one of my 
boys rushed to me with the news that there was a 
leopard in the bushes close by. I started out at once, and 
sure enough, there was the leopard walking slowly away 
from a bush not a hundred yards from the camp. I had 
to fire quickly, but my bullet struck the beast in the abdo- 
men. He fell, but picked himself up at once, and with a 
loud growl darted off into the bushes, only to fall dead 
a short distance away. It would have been impossible to 
move from Aimola without having fresh camels, as twelve 
had died during the last four marches, and the rest were 
completely worn out. During the night, therefore, I sent 
twenty men toward the Dawa to track the Gere Libin 
people, telling Salan, whom I had put in command, to be 
as friendly as he could toward the natives, but that if they 
refused to come willingly and trade with us, he should cap- 
ture any of their animals he could find, and so force them 
to come to terms. Later in the morning Dodson and I 
made a tour to the southwest, toward the foot of a 
long range of mountains that lay just on the borders of 
the Boran country. We soon came upon a large bull ele- 
phant asleep under atree. I got within thirty yards of 
