IN SOMALILAND 2 1 



barbed head of which remains in the animal, while the handle falls 

 off on contact with the branches. They also set traps, consisting of a 

 similar weapon mounted in a heavy shaft and suspended over a path. 

 The Wakamba organise large hunting expeditions, using small poisoned 

 arrows shot from weak bows, with which numbers of elephants are 

 wounded, but generally lost." 



To Colonel H. G. C. Swayne the author is indebted for the 

 following notes, which are, however, given in an abridged form, on 

 elephants and elephant-hunting in Somaliland : — 



Fig. 9. — Elephants in the Lake Rudolf district, photographed by Lord Delamere. 



" When Europeans first explored the Somali shooting-grounds in 

 1884, elephants were found on the plains of the interior south of 

 Berbera, between that port and the Golis range, 35 miles inland, and 

 on the Wagar Mountain, south-east of Berbera ; while their tracks 

 might sometimes be seen even on the seashore near Doghonkal, 

 between Bulbar and Zeyla. Elephants also existed near Hargeisa, 

 and within two days' march of the Port of Bulbar, as the cold of the 

 highlands of the interior drove them down the dry river-beds when 

 the armo-creepers and aloes, of which they are so fond, were in season. 

 They were likewise numerous in the Gadabursi country. Driven 



