84 Three Months' Leave in Somali Land. 



After failing to drive I tried some Ions-- range 

 shots at two solitary bucks, one 300 yards sight 

 (fell short), three at 400 yards, two at 500 yards, 

 all misses, could not get correct elevation. Have 

 shut up the 10-bore ; lion country left behind. 

 Can see Gran Libah from here and feel quite close 

 to Berbera. Any amount of birias going out 

 into the Haud now. This is the time I ought to 

 have begun my shoot. Had I started on 1st 

 April from Berbera, I think I could have made a 

 bag of lions. 



24th March, Saturday. — Marched from 4 to 

 10.40 and from 3 to 6. Got nearly as far as 

 Oonoonoof, shall be able to get to Asa to-mor- 

 row afternoon. I hear there is good grazing 

 there, and T can have another try for koodoo on 

 26th, giving the camels a day for rest and feed ; 

 they got no grazing to-day, the country is bare 

 after Thoio. Saw no game except gerenouk to- 

 day, and I have shot enough of them. Had one 

 shot at a guinea-fowl about seventy yards, 303, 

 killed. 



25th March, Sunday. — Marched into Syk in 

 the morning, and on to Jaretta in the evening. I 

 left the camels and went to look for aoul in 



