CHAPTER I. 
Berbera again — Up the Gerato Pass — Wart hogs — Curious caterpillar — 
Came on the Bun Arori^ — A great disappointment — Abundance of 
game — Tracking a lion. 
Two years after the events related in Part I., wishing to 
further my researches in the natural history of Somaliland, 
and if possible to cross the Webbi Ganana and visit Lake 
Rudolf, I left London, together with Mr. and Mrs. Bennett 
Stanford, on May 21, and travelled overland, via Mont 
Cenis, to Brindisi. The train, though fast, was very un- 
comfortable. It was almost impossible to get water and 
light. The latter failed just before we entered the tunnel, 
and we had to sit it out (twenty- five minutes) in pitch 
darkness. 
We arrived at Brindisi at 4.30 p.m. on May 23, and 
found the P. and 0. steamship India waiting for us. We 
reached Port Said on the 2Gth, and Aden on the 30th. 
Here I engaged a ‘ boy ’ and a cook. 
Before I left Aden I discovered that the stupid people on 
the India had not put out one of my portmanteaus, and 
had taken it on to Bombay. It contained all my boots, an 
eight-bore rifie, entomological apparatus, shirts, socks, and 
many other absolute necessaries. On reaching Berbera, 
after a fourteen hours passage, Stanford discovered that his 
agents had stupidly not put on board his rifies and guns. 
I soon discovered my headman, who had come over ten 
days before, having been commissioned by my agents to buy 
camels. The old misers, although they knew me perfectly 
well, had waited until they had all my goods, sent by 
