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Three Months' Leave in Somali Land. 



about 100 yards square. Grass as high as my 

 head and thick bush. Crept through it all except 

 one bit about forty yards square where the wait- 

 a-bit was too thick to get through except on all 

 fours. Could find no tracks the other side so 

 determined to fire it. 



Grass 





That was the position, not a nice one, with two 

 lively lions and a fire behind them. I would riot 

 have stood there for a tiger. The furthest I 

 could see was seveu yards, on one side the grass 

 came up to me, on the other side there was a path 

 a yard wide. It was very exciting, but the lious 

 were not there ! Found tracks afterwards further 

 on, and lost them where the sand was hard and 

 the bush dense. Camels from Thein feeding all 



