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a lesser kudu at last— A good gerenuk—Pe\ze]D's gazelkv-Back in 

 Berbera — The end of the trip ....... 53 



CHAPTER VI 



Plans for a second trip— Things go Avrong — M.'s success— My new 

 battery — An aggravating delay — Start again — Berbera once more — 

 Difficulties— Abdilleh Ashur— The rest of my followmg— The kharif 

 — Start for Hargcisa — In the Reserve : partridges : sand-grouse — 

 Weaver-birds : how to keep a husband out of mischief — Hitting a 

 friend when he is down — Pork in sanctuary — Hargeisa : its in- 

 habitants — The Emperor Menelek : " sacrament rations " — An 

 irrelevant yarn : Colonial Office exports — The A. P. O.'s poultry — 

 All ill return for my host's hospitality ..... o7 



CHAPTER VII 



After Hargeisa — The roller and liis colouring — Shooting lesser bustard 

 with a rifle — A good dhero — Striped hyaena — The second of August : 

 Cressd dies nota : a troop of lions : two lionesses shot — After the 

 lions agaui : bag three more — Good tracking — Success of the 

 Paradox ........... 82 



CHAPTER VIII 



Shootuig on the march — Gerenuk — Parturiunt mmites — Bad water — 

 My " milk-man " — Halal — ^The hyaena's laugh — Additions to the 

 bag — Greater bustard — Aotd i-Awn — Kotunwein — Shooting oowZ ,• 

 the effect of high wind — Night-watching : a bad let-off — Conso- 

 lation in store — The reward of good tracking : death of a grand 

 black-maned lion — Lions jumping into zaribas .... 94 



CHAPTER IX 



The Sahib a universal healer — Milch-camels lost — Baby gercmik — 

 Tameness of antelo|X! in the dusk — Leopard's " kill " up a tree — 

 Why it came there : the tale writ in the sandy soil : leopard and 

 imrdba — Horace in the wilds : sentiment and a crimmal — A 

 fractious camel — A Somali zariba — Sitting up for a leopard : scored 

 oflf ! — Water and mud — A move southward . . . .111 



CHAPTER X 



The Haud again — Difficulty of shooting dibatag — Mysterious circles — 

 Butterflies : the " Painted Lady " — Birds at Libah Ale : night- 

 jar : grey shrike : hoopoe — How the hoopoe gauied his crest — 



