212 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA CHAP. 
people, and taken off live-stock ; and that they sent emissaries 
occasionally to collect tribute. Many of the Imé people have 
therefore left Imé and gone to Karanleh, another large collection 
of villages three marches down the river to the east; and they 
say that Karanleh has now become the more important place. 
The Imé people certainly seemed poor and timid. They were 
afraid to go outside the palisades of the villages at night, and 
held Jama Deria and the Amaden in great awe. Gabba Oboho 
said that if I wanted to shoot buffaloes, hippopotami, and 
giraffes, I must go three days’ march to the south, to the Webbe 
Web, which is a tributary of the Webbe Ganana or Juba river, 
and that the people there were Gurré Gallas. He represented 
them to be “good people,” and that if I were a friend of his 
they would be pleased to see me, if I did not loot or fight with 
them ; and that I had better go to Berbera and return in two 
months’ time, when our camels would be able to ford the Webbe. 
He said that for my caravan to cross on their clumsy rafts in 
the present flooded state of the river would take from four to 
seven days. 
My leave was now coming to an end. I had already asked 
for an extension, but to find out whether it was granted I had 
to make all haste to the coast. We stayed four days at Imé 
hunting for the balanka or waterbuck, which is unobtainable 
anywhere in Somaliland except on the Webbe. Crowds of 
Adone thrust themselves on us during our rambles, hoping to 
get meat. I found the sport in the Webbe valley very interest- 
ing, though the great heat was intensified by the high buffalo- 
grass through which we had to force our way. We were 
generally out on foot all day, often going to the river to rest 
in the cool, dense forest which clothes the banks for a hundred 
yards on either side of the stream. I shot two waterbuck, 
thinking, on account of their small size, that they must be a 
new species. But experience on a second trip proved them to 
be young. 
We found the cotton-bush flourishing wild on the river-banks, 
and heard that cottcn is grown farther to the east, towards 
the Shabéleh district. The name of this river at Imé is not the 
Webbe Shabéleh, but the Webbe Sidama, which, I heard, is its 
Galla name. Shabéleh appears to be the name of the district 
through which the river runs at the point where Mr. F. L. 
James’s expedition struck it in 1884. The chief sources of 
the Juba are the Webbe Wéb, Webbe Gandna, and Webbe Dau, 
