220 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSIN/A — CHar. 
tribe. He and the interpreter, Adan Yusuf, were older than 
most of the men, who were almost boys, and, like many of the 
Jibril Abokr, in his youth he had been a great raider. He was 
always full of fun, danced well, led the men’s amusements, and 
was the most popular man in camp, as well as the smartest out 
of a particularly good lot. Daura had been with me on five 
expeditions during 1891-93. On this trip, since we had left 
Harar, I had given him charge of Ras Makunan’s mule. 
Finding the lions had left Durhi, having, no doubt, followed 
the karias, as lions will, we struck camp next morning and 
made for Dagaha Maddéba,! where we expected to find the 
Malingur. The whole of the ground between Durhi and 
Dagaha Madéba appeared hidden under an unbroken expanse 
of khansa bush, covering the low hills and wave-like undulations 
of the country as far as the eye could reach on every side. Game 
was plentiful, and we saw Scemmerring’s and Waller's gazelles, 
zebra, and beisa oryx. I shot two zebras and wounded beisa 
in the course of a long hunt which took me several miles to the 
south-east of the caravan track. When I first came on the 
zebras at about 9 a.m., Abokr was riding the Arab camel far 
behind me, and the party with me consisted of my two hunters 
Géli and Hassan, and Daura Warsama, while I rode my 
mule. I had been riding armed only with a pistol, Daura 
carrying my Express rifle; and when we saw the zebras and I 
dismounted, Daura pushed the rifle into my hands, and jump- 
ing into the saddle, took the mule away to the rear to join 
Abokr, and, as I thought, arm himself with one of the rifles 
which were on the camel, while Géli, Hassan, and I ran after 
the zebras. 
At the end of the hunt, more than an hour afterwards, while 
we were cutting up the zebra-meat, Abokr came up leading the 
camel and mule, and looking put out. He said he had caught 
the mule, which he had found galloping about riderless, and 
thought that Daura must have come to some harm from Galla 
marauders. 
Carefully going back to where Abokr had caught the mule, 
and taking up the back trail, we met two Malingur, the first 
we had seen for some days ; and answering to our inquiries they 
first said they knew nothing, and then that they had seen marks 
in the ground, showing that a lion had carried away a man. 
Promising a reward, I took these men as guides, and they led 
1 J.e. “the black rock,” called after a feature in the river-bed near the wells. 
