TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 209 
of wood. Poor protections against so fierce a foe as 
a lion ! This tribe seemed none too friendly, and we 
put a couple of miles between us ere we camped. 
We sighted a dibatag buck, shy as a hawk. This 
was a part of the country destitute of game apparently. 
Only the useful dik-dik abode with us to fill the pot. 
To Joh next day. There was nothing to tell us it 
was Joh, any more than Bob or Tom. The only 
reason it had for being specified as a place at all was that 
it had a very superior well with running water. Even 
that did not please half the caravan, for we saw them, 
in preference, choose a dirty mud-hole and drink from 
it. We did a big day’s excursion into the jungle, trying 
to come on spoor of any animal where spoor was not. 
As a resort for game this part of Somaliland seems 
unpopular. I cannot think why. Were I a lion, far 
rather would I haunt the shores of the lake at Sinna- 
dogho than grill on the sands of the Ogaden. 
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