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has to take note of passers-by in this uninhabited 

 spot, for they are generally on the loot when far 

 from their harias. My men told the Habr Unis 

 where the Ogaden harias are, and they went off 

 after them 



18th Maech. — The Habr Unis men told me 

 they saw fresh tracks of a rhino about two hours 

 from here, so I went that way in the morning. 

 Came on the yesterday's track in about two hours 

 and followed it in the hope that I should find his 

 dwelling place. No good. That rhino was mov- 

 ing to better grazing ; he went in a bee line 

 straight away from my camp. No rain has fallen 

 in that direction, and all the grass is dry, so I 

 guess he was moving across the dry patch. He 

 was not feeding as he went, which is a very bad 

 sign. The dry bit extends for about thirty-five 

 miles, so the Habr Unis men said. I gave up the 

 business after about two and a-half hours' fast 

 tracking, and it took me four hours' good walk- 

 ing to get back. Was quite done. Get no milk 

 here, and Warsanna's cooking is beo-inuino- to 

 choke me off my feed. Am getting very thin 

 and weak. If I could get milk I could do well. 

 I drank about a gallon a day in the Ogaden 



