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any thing. In the morning, after a useless search for the brute of the preceding night, 
on which we naturally desired to wreak our vengeance, we buried the poor victim, 
covered him with a pile of stones, and left for Asoos. From here we started the same 
day, and halted at Kooserit. 
On the 31st we left Kooserit, and, halting at Anagully, arrived in the evening at 
Kanzal, where I managed to stroll out, but I was still very ill. I fired at two Panthers 
without effect. At 6 p.m. on the 4th of July we started across the desert to Ain, on 
the river Lebka, which rises in the hills and flows across the plains to the sea. I 
stopped to look at a Bedouin village, consisting of about 100 mat huts. The inhabi- 
tants belonged to one of the nomad tribes which pasture their flocks during the wet 
season on the coast, moving up towards the highlands as the pasturage fails. We passed 
through the Ostrich-country, but we did not see any of these birds. During the night, 
the moon being up, we saw several herds of Antelopes. 
We arrived at Ain at about 10 o’clock. In the afternoon I went out, and succeeded 
in procuring some specimens. ‘This place is very prettily situated, forming quite an 
oasis in the desert. A bright stream runs through grass and high reedy jungle, bordered 
with tamarisks and other trees; a background of rugged barren hills, rising tier above 
tier, enhances the beauty of the scene. 
On the 7th of July we left Ain for Mahabar; and when there I began to regain my 
health. Between Ain and Mahabar we found spoor of Elephants, evidently in a state 
of migration from the lowlands to the highlands. At Mahabar I added considerably 
to my collection, particularly by specimens of a small hawk, which I take to be the 
Nisus sphenurus of Riippell. Mr. Blanford obtained several. The night before our 
arrival a native had been killed bya Lion. The animal left his track by the waterside, 
and it was taken up by Mr. Blanford and Capt. Mokeler without effect. I took up the 
track of a solitary Elephant with a like result. At 5 o’clock a.m. the next day we 
continued our march, halting at Gelamet for lunch, and arrived at 6 P.M. at Kokai, or 
the City of the Lions. Between Gelamet and Kokai the scenery improved greatly, 
exchanging rather stunted tamarinds and barren mimosas for the baba tree, or Adan- 
sonia, the cactus-like Euphorbia, and a dense jungle with a strong undergrowth of rank 
grass and aloes. 
Here the climate was truly European, and, indeed, at night intensely cold. The 
fauna began to show the peculiarities which I had expected at Undel Wells, and in 
which I was disappointed ; the transition was so sudden that on the first day I procured 
three species of Roller, a Parrot, and several other birds. 
The next morning we found on inquiry that Elephants were in the neighbourhood ; 
so, having supplied my taxidermist with materials for his day’s work, I joined Capt. 
Mokeler and Mr. Blanford in an excursion in search of them. 
I remained two days longer in this neighbourhood collecting with success, and then 
proceeded over the pass to Bejook on the river Anseba. Here I had a good week, 
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