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complain to the District Officer ; but they knew they 

 had no case, and presently climbed down, upon which 

 I let them have as much water as we could spare. 



It is an axiom in lion-shooting that karias attract 

 lions, but the lion does not like the neighbourhood of 

 too many human beings. Fresh Jcarias kept coming 

 up from the south and drove most of the game away, 

 so we decided to move south a short way into the Hand. 

 We ought really to have taken this course a week earlier, 

 but I had been hoping for the arrival of my Abyssinian 

 permit, intending as soon as it arrived to march 

 straight across the Haud into Ogaden. However, a 

 mail had arrived without it, and it looked as if I must 

 perforce give up the Ogaden with the rhinoceros I had 

 counted on getting there. 



After hiring four additional water camels we 

 started on the 16th August, leaving some stores at 

 Kotunwein as before, and camped on the following day 

 at Billeil Tobani, within the Haud, a few miles short of 

 the Abyssinian border. 



