CAMEL KILLED BY A LION 
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toying with them. The lion had jumped right over the 
zareba ; the ‘ pugs ’ where it had taken off, and where it had 
landed inside, were plainly visible. It had killed the camel, 
and had then been driven off with stones. In another 
zareba close by was a second dead camel, which had died in 
giving birth to a young one, which lay beside its mother 
with its throat cut for some unearthly reason. Surely they 
could have found a foster-mother for it out of the thousands 
round about. But the Somalis are very superstitious, and 
probably considered the baby guilty of murder. I ordered 
two little zarebas with two port-holes in each to be built. 
The caravan then came up and pitched close by, when, as 
usual, a large crowd of natives surrounded my zareba, and 
one boy with more cheek than the rest came and sat within 
two or three feet of me, and after staring at me for the 
space of half an hour, as I was writing, began to feel and 
touch everything within reach. 
