224 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA CH. VIII 
leads from the high Ogo country down into Guban, the coast- 
district. Coming down into the defile called Aff-ki-Jerato next 
day, I met some Biladiers, or native irregular police, with my 
mail-bag, containing four months’ letters; and finding that, 
owing to my having received an extension, my leave would not 
expire immediately, I settled down steadily to hunt greater 
koodoo in the Gélis Range, round Gan Libah, Henweina, and 
Garbadir. 
