CHA PE Keer 
Tue Beauties oF Ext DERE — ATTEMPTED MURDER — THE GABBRA 
AND HIS Outrir — Dirricutr MARCHING My Caravan AT NIGHT — 
Hawayt SOMALIS AND GABBRA — ANCIENT WELLS AT LE — THE 
NATIVES BEGIN TO ACT SUSPICIOUSLY — MORE REMARKABLE WELLS — 
SHOOTING GAZELLES IN A ‘THUNDERSTORM — KNOCKED INSENSIBLE BY 
LIGHTNING — IN DANGER FROM NATIVES. 
N March 22 we made a five hours’ march, going 
straight into a tiny horseshoe-shaped valley, sur- 
rounded, except at its very narrow entrance, by tall moun- 
tain walls over five thousand feet high. The beauty of this 
little valley was most striking, with its flowering plants 
and luxuriant bushes and vines. Under a big rock at the 
farther extremity of this cul-de-sac ran a spring of cold, 
clear water, called El Dere. Many trees of boxwood grew 
about the spring, the trunks of some of them being three 
feet in diameter, and among the rocks were many ferns and 
mosses; so that, as I drank a hatful of the cold, pure water, 
I imagined myself out fora day’s trout-fishing in the moun- 
tains of Pennsylvania. There were a good many villages 
of Boran near E] Dere, but some of these belonged to the 
Gabbra, or low-caste Boran, who use bows and poisoned 
arrows, and who are regarded as so far removed from their 
superiors that they are not allowed to marry outside. of 
their own tribe, although their villages are found scattered 
all through Abofilato’s dominions. It was while engaged in 
shooting guinea-fowl that I noticed one of these Gabbra 
secreted behind a bush, and aiming with his bow and arrow 
