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come off. The ears of a lion are very thick, and contain a 
good deal of flesh. They should by rights be skinned right 
out, which, by-the-by, must be done with great care. By 
rubbing alum and saltpetre well into the inside of the ear 
the hair on the outside will be preserved. 
After marching west for two and a half hours, passing 
immense herds of camels, cattle, sheep and goats, we 
reached a place called Harari Wana. Here were two or 
three villages situated some 100 yards apart. I was glad 
to find that the report of lions was true, for a wonder, as I 
saw the well-known appliances hung up round the village 
zareba to frighten away the lions : bits of tube tied to poles 
and stuck up like flags ; ropes with bits of tin attached, 
which banged against the zareba, making a clanking noise. 
But little does a hungry lion care for such trifles. Most of 
the people here had never seen a white man before, and the 
men looked upon me with suspicious and scowling looks at 
first, whilst the women grinned and leered. For two nights 
I sat in a small zareba between the villages, but no lion 
put in an appearance. Singing and prayer-chanting was 
kept up till a very late hour at night, and began again 
early in the morning. Crowds of children surrounded their 
elders, who gabbled off texts from the Koran, which were 
written upon long wooden tablets in Arabic. 
I marched back to the lake at El Deneli, and from there 
to Gerigeree, where there was the same monotonous lake. 
Everything is the same in this beastly country. One sees 
the same trees, the same thorn-bushes, the same rising and 
falling ground, the same red sand for miles and miles and 
miles. 
At Gerigeree we fell in with a great crowd of people, 
some Marehan, some Ogaden, and some Haweea. I went 
out in the morning to look for small koodoo, which were 
reported, but saw nothing but cattle. Hearing firing going 
on in camp, I hastily returned, when my headman told me 
that the natives were ‘ saucy,’ and that my men had been 
obliged to fire blank- cartridge over their heads, when they 
