CHAPTER VIL 
FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABELEH RIVER, 1893 
Form an ambush over the pool at Kuredelli—A rhinoceros wounded—Un- 
successful hunt after the rhinoceros—Two lions seen—Another rhinoceros 
wounded at the pool ; three lionesses arrive ; interesting moonlight scene 
—A lioness drinks, and is wounded—Death of the lioness—Follow and 
bag the rhinoceros—Exciting hyena-hunt with pistol and knife—AbDbas- 
gul fight—Unsuccessful rhinoceros-hunt—We march into the monsoon— 
Waller’s gazelle wounded by me and pulled down by a leopard—Death 
of the leopard—Camp again at Tuli—Two rhinoceroses bagged ; furious 
charge—The Sheikh Ash, a friendly tribe—A leopard in camp—Ambush 
at the Garba-aleh pool ; leopard and hyena bagged—Abuniance of game 
—First enter zebra country—Man-eating lions at Durhi—Malingur at 
Durhi—Elephant-hunting in Daghatto Valley; a bull bagged—Large 
number of elephants—Interesting scene in Daghatto—Leopards seen— 
Uninhabited country—Difficulty in finding the Rer Amaden tribe—Halt 
at Enleh and send out scouts. 
I vert Jig-Jiga for the Jerer Valley and Ogddén country on 
26th March 1893, with the whole of my caravan, consisting of 
three fast Aden camels, thirty-three baggage camels, and the 
mule Ras Makunan had given me; and I had still my following 
of the twenty-one faithful Somalis armed with Snider carbines. 
I had finished my visit to Harar; and now, armed with Ras 
Makunan’s passport, I was free to strike across Somaliland to 
the Webbe Shabéleh river, four hundred miles inland, and to 
shoot big game unmolested by Abyssinian soldiers, and, what 
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