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liere is called Gilmaber, from Gilma, a fmall village a mile 

 and a half diftant to the fouthward. Gilmaber is about a 

 mile and a half long, full of tall canes. From the time 

 we left Tokoor river, we had been followed by a lion, or 

 rather preceded by one, for it was generally a fmall gun- 

 fliot before us ; and wherever it came to a bare fpot, it 

 would fit down and grumble as if it meant to difpute the 

 way with us. Our beails trembled, and were all covered 

 with fwcat, and could fcarcely be kept on the road. As 

 there feemed to be but one remedy for this difficulty, I 

 took along Turkifh rifled gun, and crawling under a bank 

 as near as poffible, Ihot it in the body, fo that it fell from 

 the bank on the road before us, quite dead, and even with- 

 out mufcular motion. It proved to be a large lionefs. All 

 the people in this country eat the flefh of lions ; as I have 

 feen fome tribes* in Barbary do likewife. We left the.lion- 

 €fs to the inhabitants of the neighbouring village, fls;in 

 and all ; for we were fo tired with this day's journey, that 

 we could not be at the pains of fkinning her, 



A FEW minutes after this we pafled the river Gilma, twice, 

 which runs to the northward. At half paft nine we joined 

 Dabda road, and a few minutes after crofTed the Quartuc- 

 ca, a fmall river running north.. 



The country here becomes more open, for the thick 

 woods have fmall plains between them. In the entrance 

 of a wood we found a man that had been murdered, and 

 that very lately, as the wild beafts had not yet begun 



to 



* Welled Sidi Boogannini at Hydra. See Shaw's Travels, 



