322 OK THE GAME-ANIMALS OF SOMAXILAND. [Apr. 3, 



Webbe, and they are plentiful beyond in Galla-land. They are 

 said to exist to the south-east of Berbera, but I never saw any 

 traces of them. 



We found the Ehinoceros the most stupid game-animal we have 

 encountered, and easily approached if the wind is right. They 

 were not more prone to charge than Elephants, and I only had 

 one narrow escape. I have never seen more than three together. 



The ground they like best is very stony broken lulls with some 

 river-bed not too many miles distant, where they can go at night 

 to drink and bathe. They travel considerable distances to the river 

 and wander all night up and down the channel looking for a 

 convenient pool, and making a maze of tracks in the soft sand. 



The Abbasgul, Malingur, and Eer Amaden tribes eat their flesh 

 when hungry, and I found it very good and lived for a week on it. 



We could usually cut from 15 to 30 shields from each Ehinoceros, 

 I inch thick and 15 inches in diameter, worth about a dollar apiece 

 at the coast. 



Everywhere in Central Ogaden the caravan-tracks are furrowed 

 in grooves a yard or more long and six inches deep, which look 

 like the work of a plough. This is done by the Ehinoceros plunging 

 his front horn and hard thick lip into the ground as he walks 

 along. 



A good pair of bull's horns measure 19 inches for the front and 

 5 inches for the back one. 



MiSCELL.UfEOUS NOTES. 



Besides the animals mentioned in this and my previous paper, 

 the game-animals seen by me in Somahland include Lions, 

 Elephants, Leopards, Wart^Hogs, and Ostriches. 



The Spotted Hyagna is very common, and the Striped Hyaena 

 rather rare. There is a wild dog, called " Yey," which I have 

 never seen or shot. 



Crocodiles swarm in the Webbe-Shabeyli river. I had a horse 

 dragged into the river and killed by one. There are a few schools 

 of Hippopotami, one of which had its usual abode near Sen- 

 Morettu, but I failed to find it, only coming upon the fresh 

 tracks. 



There are Giraffes in the AuHhan country, three days from Burka, 

 but I gave them up for the chance of going to the Arussi 

 Gallas. 



While on the Webbe 1 heard that four Buffaloes, all bulls, 

 had strayed from the Gerire Galla country, through eighty miles 

 of bush, and had taken up their abode in the forest on the Webbe 

 banks at Sen-Morettu, four years before my visit to that spot. My 

 informant, a Gilimiss Somali, told me his father had killed two 

 of them, two years before, with poisoned arrows, and that two 

 remained. 



I found their fresh tracks, the first I had ever seen, and tried 

 very hard for two days to get a sight of them. We put them up 



