CHAPTER XI 



A westward move — Jennie — Death of a marauder — Oryx on the Sella Plain 

 — A di-owned camp — Ai'or — Lesser kudu buU : an opportunity missed — 

 Lioness with cubs : Abdilleh's lucky shot : all's weU that ends weU — 

 Iddu Khan : out of the eater came forth meat— Uses of a dead lion — 

 Baby caracal — Camel killed by big lion : a fruitless vigil : the lion's 

 roar — The lesser kudu bull agaua : elusive as usual — Capture of one of 

 the Hon cubs — An exciting night — ^Tracking the enemy — A pretty shot 

 and another lioness — Colour of SomaU lions — Genet — My Abyssinian 

 permit : too late — Sonny and his foster-mother — Tracks of a big lion : 

 lose them — A good aoul — A long day on the Ai'or ban — My best oryx : 

 sad loss of a horn — Swaync's hartebeest — Another good oryx — A second 

 hartebeest — Jackals at duiner — The aoul as an animal of the plains : 

 Mr, Elliot's opinion — Speed of the aoul. 



On the 30th August we bade farewell to Kotunwein 

 and marched west for Aror, starting with a single 

 long march from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Of course, 

 but for the cool winds of the high plateaux, such a 

 march under the tropical sun would have been some- 

 thing cruel. Jennie, the little aoul fawn, was beginning 

 to get skittish. She was by no means content to trot 

 soberly along with the goats and sheep, but was con- 

 tinually makuig excursions of her own, until sjie had 

 to be caught and carried on Arraleh's shoulder. 



That night a wardba tried to annex a goat and died 

 the death. What lan extremely unprepossessing beast 

 a hyaena is, of whatever kind ! One is puzzled, con- 

 sidering the similarity of their habits, to account for 

 the short ears of the spotted hysena in comparison 

 with the long ones of his striped brother. 



