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was far from pleasant, and, after it was all over, H. 

 and his party were more dead than alive. I am afraid 

 that I was unjustly the cause of this little contretemps, 

 as Zardic swore that I had knocked down a man at 

 Azho, and then shot at him, and, as they could not 

 catch me, because I passed so quickly through 

 Adiaboo, they thought they would assail H., as they 

 considered he was just as bad. A few days after the 

 assault by Zardic and his men, H. wrote to Rass 

 Baria, the chief of Tigre, a letter of complaint, and, 

 later on, wrote to the King himself about it. He 

 subsequently heard there was a tremendous " row " 

 about all this, and that Zardic was going to be 

 chained, and the governorship of the province taken 

 away from him. I think the punishment very just, 

 and well merited by this chief 



During H.'s first excursion to the Mareb he shot 

 4 buffaloes, i leopard, i wadembie (which is a much 

 larger kind of deer than either hagazin or hartebeestj, 

 also I very large turtle, and 2 crocodiles. This was 

 certainly very good sport, and how I afterwards re- 

 gretted I was not able to be with him to swell the 

 bag ! This was before he came up to try and join me 

 at Adiaboo ; when he left Adiaboo, he went to the 

 Cassoua and Sherraro plains. There he shot 8 tora 

 (hartebeest), 3 of them being very large and fine 

 animals, i hagazin, and 2 pigs. Also, he says in his 



