THE RAHAD RIVER 219 



which is marked on my map. There were no signs of 

 any game for which we cared to stay. 



April 2&h. I spent the night in bed, and was 

 awakened towards midnight by a couple of lions roar- 

 ing loudly just the other side of the Rahad. I got my 

 Indian servants into the zareba, but the lions moved 

 off. In the early morning we moved on to Mokedou, 

 where we halted for the forenoon, and I shot nine 

 guinea-fowl, not knowing when we might next see 

 game. At 3 p.m. we left Mokedou and marched until 

 6.30 p.m. over abominable black cotton-soil in a S.W. 

 direction say 7 miles. The camels were merely 

 picketed that night. On the road we first saw one 

 giraffe in the distance, and afterwards a mother and 

 young, at about 300 yards, but I was not for shooting 

 them at a fee of 20. 



