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Shebeyli people, who had defeated the Abyssinians in two 
battles, killing a great number. They reported that the 
headmen of the Abyssinians, Futto Warari and Ras 
Mangashia, were dead. They took from them 600 rifles 
and several thousand rounds of ‘ angulation.’ In the 
first fight they slew, with spears and arrows only, 165 
Abyssinians, all armed with rifles. 
At night I slept near my dead camel, which by this time 
smelt horribly. Next morning we rode to the Gambissa 
‘ wells.’ The lake was now but half the size it was when I 
first visited it, owing to the vast herds which had been 
wintered there within the last few days. I took some 
photographs and shot a few birds. Here I found an 
ingenious series of traps set in a long, low thorn fence, and 
used for catching dik - dlk antelope by the Midgans. 
Nooses made of string had been arranged in little openings 
all along the fence. Above the fence bits of dik-dik skin, 
fastened to trees, were flapping about ; these were used 
as an attraction or lure. In the afternoon I dragged my 
now putrid camel, all a seething mass of maggots, some 
distance from the village, and built a zareba round him, 
in which I made two openings, setting ‘ gin ’ traps in each 
opening. They were carefully hidden in the sand. I then 
warned the people in the village, and especially the children, 
not to go near them, and told them if they touched the 
traps it would mean instant death. 
Mr. and Mrs. Stanford left me here next day, getting 
news of rhinoceros further on. I discovered a fine striped 
hy£ena in one of my traps. After beating the brute 
insensible, my men took him out of the trap, when he jumped 
up, bit a man’s tobe through and made off, but he was 
saluted by my shot-gun with ‘ BB,’ and fell stone-dead. 
He had a very handsome coat, and a fine mane and bushy 
tail. The ears of this animal are pointed, very narrow and 
long, whilst those of its cousin, the spotted hyaena, are 
rounded, very broad and short. 
Not having had a shot at an antelope for upwards of ten 
