CONTEXTS 



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Introduction ......... . xix 



CHAPTER I 



SomaliJand — First trip from Aden — Berbeia : preliminary arrange- 

 ments — General description of Somaliland — Physical features, 

 etc. — Inhabitants — Fauna ....... 1 



CHAPTER II 



Start from Berbera — Fust meeting with aoul : description — Deragodleh 

 and Lafarus; — Mandera : lesser kudu : dik-dik — Birds : the million- 

 aire myna : king-crow — ^The Somali leopard : sittmg up for him : 

 bad luck — Black-backed jackal — Greater kudu : a fine trophy — ^A 

 leopard's " kill " : no luck again — Carrion birds : crow and mon- 

 goose 13 



CHAPTER III 



Across the Golis Range — Adadleh — Chita — Speke's gazelle — Bull oryx 

 wounded and lost — Description of oryx beisa — A jungle uiterlude — 

 " Bounders " among beasts — The spotted hyaena : his character and 

 habits — Descnption ot gere II uk — Tuyo Plain — '^ Somajesti'' . . 27 



CHAPTER IV 



The Hand — Otocyon — ^Midgan hunters — How to attract lions — My first 

 dibatag — On the tracks of the King of Beasts : first sight of him — • 

 Blank days — Another long day after a Uon : agam but a gUmpse — 

 The Somah's bump of locahty — Lose a donkey in an unusual way 

 — ^Description of dibatag — Bad shootmg — My first oryx — Northward 

 again — Why I had no luck with Uons ...... 40 



CHAPTER V 



Tuyo again — Secretary birds — Shooting aoul on the Plam : a grand 

 gaUop — Erratic shootmg : the explanation — Two good heads — The 

 Khansa bush : a leopard's " kill " — Bag a small leopard — Leopard 

 and hyaenas — A long day : the elusive lesser kudu — The Jerato Pass : 

 alakut : an unintentional crime — Mandera again : meet H. — Shoot 



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