180 CHASE OF A HYAENA. 



given the last thing, after the camels had been 

 driven home, and had lain down for the night. 



Ohmed Medina, Zaido, and Allee, with their spears 

 and shields, acompanied Himyah and myself with 

 onr guns, and w T e proceeded down the face of the 

 declivity, from our camp to the edge of the winding 

 watercourse in front. Here, on the stiff clay of 

 the not yet quite dried up pools which resulted 

 from this morning's rain, we found the large foot- 

 prints of a hyaena, that had been prowling round 

 the camp, and we immediately set about following 

 the traces, in the hopes of meeting a nobler object 

 of attack, than the fearful and provokingly shy 

 antelope. These foot-marks took us in the direction 

 of the lava-plain of Hy, and we soon found, that 

 the extreme difficulty of recovering several times 

 the broken trail, and the little chance we could 

 have, in the country he seemed to have retired to, 

 of coming upon his retreat before he discovered 

 our approach, offered no sufficient inducement for 

 us to continue the chase. 



Ohmed Medina had just come to a stand, and 

 was making the proposal for us to return, when 

 Zaido and Allee, simultaneously pointed in the 

 direction of one of the numerous kairns, that mark 

 the graves of the Dankalli. There we saw the 

 object of our pursuit on the look-out, and 

 apparently watching our movements, his grizzly 

 head and high shoulders, protruding beyond the 

 cover afforded by a large kairn, at the distance of 



