38 Three Months' Leave in Somali Land. 



is good; first good water I have had for one 

 month. 



15th, Thursday. — My Abyssinian friends came 

 to see me in the morning, so I was a bit late in 

 starting. Fanat six and three- quarter hours 

 south -south-west in same river. Had a shot at a 

 gerenouk with 500, distance 120 yards. He was 

 behind a bush, which T fired through ; bullet 

 grazed stump hidden by bush ; broke up I fancy, 

 and then hit gerenouk, one foreleg broken, very 

 little blood, gave him up after a bit. Men saw 

 a leopard as they were coming along with camels 

 behind me. Pugs (old) of lions at the water 

 here, my large-footed one drank here last night, 

 other pugs about three days. I cannot say 

 how many, but three or four lions appear to 

 drink here occasionally. 



16th, Friday. — No lions came to drink. Went 

 out in morning, but could find no tracks. Met 

 people from karia ; these say there are four lions, 

 and that they visit their karia occasionally, but 

 seldom come on moonlight nights. The lions, 

 they say, drink here about every third day. 

 Made a very cunning ambush in among the roots 

 of a big tree near the water. Will sit up over 



