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here is called Gilmaber, from Gilma, a fmall village a mile © 
and a half diftant to the fouthward. Gilmaber is about a | 
mile and a half long, full of tall canes. From the time 
we left Tokoor river, we had_ been followed by a lion, or 
rather preceded by one, for it was generally a fmall gun- 
fhot before us; and wherever it came to a bare fpot, it_ 
would fit down and grumble as if it meant to difpute the 
way with us. Our beafts trembled, and: were all covered: 
with fweat, and could fcarcely be kept on the road. As 
there feemed to be but one remedy for this difficulty, 1 
took along Turkifh rifled gun, and crawling under a bank. 
as near as poflible, fhot it in the body, fo that it fell from. 
the bank on the road before us, quite dead, and even with-. 
out mufcular motion. It proved tobe a large lionefs. All - 
the people in this country eat the flefh of lions ; as. I have 
feen fome tribes* in Barbary do likewife. We left the hon- 
efs to the inhabitants of the neighbouring village, fkin 
and all; for we were fo tired with this day’s journey, that 
we could not be at the pains of fkinning her. 
A rew minutes after this we pafled the river Gilma, twice, 
which runs to the northward. At half paft nine we joined. 
Dabda road, and a few minutes after croffed the Quartuc- 
ca, a {mall river running north. 
THE country here becomes more open, for the thick: 
woods have {mall plains between them. In the entrance 
of a wood we found a man that had been murdered, and 
that very lately, as the wild beafts had not yet begun 
} to. 
* Welled Sidi Boogannim at Hydra. See Shaw’s Travels. . 
