240 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSIN/A — CHAP. 
extension of leave had been granted, and at once prepared a 
second caravan, intending to go back to Imé, and taking Gabba 
Oboho at his word, to explore Gallaland and the Juba under 
his guidance. 
On 30th July 1893 we landed again at Berbera with thirty- 
four men armed with Snider carbines and forty-five fresh camels. 
The coast men were much afraid of Gallaland, and insisted 
that we ought to have at least a hundred rifles; but fighting 
not being my object, I considered our party strong enough, and 
after explaining that I would only cross the Galla border if the 
Gallas should prove peaceful, the men took a more cheerful 
view of the prospects of my journey. 
We marched from Berbera on 31st July, and on the second 
day passed Lord Delamere and his shooting party on their way 
to the coast. Major Abud was at that time encamped at 
Hargeisa, carrying on political business with Eidegalla chiefs. 
Sheikh Mattar of Hargeisa, whom I met here, advised me not to 
go to Imé, but to try Karanleh, three marches farther down the 
Webbe; and he gave me an Arabic letter to Seyyid Mahomed, 
a mullah whose permanent town lay in our front. By visiting 
the Seyyid I should cross Ogadén by a route several days to 
the west of my former one through Dagaha-Madoba. 
I crossed the Haud by the Warda Gumaréd, the route taken 
on our first crossing, when I had gone to Milmil with my brother 
the year before; this time I carried water for five and a half 
days only. About three marches out from Hargeisa I crossed 
the fresh tracks of seventy-five horsemen of the Abdalla Saad, 
Habr Awal, who had gone to loot the Eidegalla a few hours 
before my caravan passed over the ground. 
Crossing the Rer Ali and Rer Harun tribes, always friendly, 
on the 16th I arrived at Seyyid Mahomed’s town. It is a 
permanent village of three or four hundred huts, about the size 
of Hargeisa, its site being near the Tug Fafan, in the Malingur 
tribe. The banks of the stream, which we found dry, were 
dotted with thriving and extensive patches of jowdri. The 
inhabitants are mainly widads and mullahs from different Somali 
tribes. 
Pitching camp under shady trees near the river, on the Fafan 
banks, I went with the elders, through a dense crowd, to the 
Seyyid’s hut. He was too old and feeble to walk over to camp, 
and had sent his son to ask if I would mind coming to him, to 
make his acquaintance and give him medicine. The Seyyid is 
