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of wood. Poor protections against so fierce a foe as 

 a lion ! This tribe seemed none too friendly, and we 

 put a couple of miles between us ere we camped. 



We sighted a dibatag buck, shy as a hawk. This 

 was a part of the country destitute of game apparently. 

 Only the useful dik-dik abode with us to fill the pot. ; 



To Joh next day. There was nothing to tell us it 

 was Joh, any more than Bob or Tom. The only 

 reason it had for being specified as a place at all was that 

 it had a very superior well with running water. Even 

 that did not please half the caravan, for we saw them, 

 in preference, choose a dirty mud-hole and drink from 

 it. We did a big day's excursion into the jungle, trying 

 to come on spoor of any animal where spoor was not. 

 As a resort for game this part of Somali] and seems 

 unpopular. I cannot think why. Were I a lion, far 

 rather would I haunt the shores of the lake at Sinna- 

 dogho than grill on the sands of the Ogaden. 



