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everything he could. This might have been borne 

 had he only produced camels more quickly ; but 

 on the fifth day he had only got twenty-six not 

 near enough, so we decided to leave some things 

 to be fetched on, and get clear of Berbera. Before 

 leaving the town, we paid a visit to an Austrian, 

 who was collecting beasts for Austrian zoos. He 

 had some ostriches, a half-grown lion, two lion 

 cubs, some young leopards, and a cheetal. 



At the last minute we found that Warsama 

 had filled the caravan with his own tribesmen. 

 Now, no caravan was allowed to have more than 

 a certain number of men from each tribe, so that 

 there should not be too much cohesion amongst 

 them. We had armed all our men with Sniders 

 from the Aden arsenal, and they would have been 

 a formidable body had they chosen to take part in 

 any of the constant tribal fights, or to break away 

 and perhaps do for us. This, then, was a very 

 serious offence, and Warsama was promptly 

 deposed and sent to jail, while on my return I 

 had him struck off the list of headmen kept at 

 Berbera. I subsequently have found out more 

 about his previous and his later history, which it 

 may be of interest to relate. A year before he 

 came to us he was out after lion with a friend of 

 mine, Captain Macdonald, of the Argyle and 

 Sutherland Highlanders. A lion charged home, 

 and Warsama, who was carrying the spare rifle, 



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