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A VISIT TO RAS MAKUNAN OF HARAR , 1893 149 
their target practice, during which time I was the guest of 
Mr. Malcolm Jones, the political officer. While I was at BulhJr 
Mr. Seton Karr arrived on a shooting trip, arid left for the south- 
west on the same day ; I also heard that Colonel Carrington of 
Poona was starting from Zeila into the Gadabursi country to 
look for elephants. 
My own private weapons were a double four-bore elephant 
rifle carrying fourteen drams of powder and a spherical ball, and 
weighing twenty-one pounds ; a double eight-bore Paradox, a 
double ’577 Express, all by Holland and Holland; a long Lee- 
Metford magazine rifle, a Martini-Henry, and a double twelve- 
bore pistol. 
There was a row going on among the coast people while we 
were at Bulh&r. Near Eil Sheikh, on the shore, fourteen miles 
west of Bulh^r, two men had fought in the jungle, a man of the 
Ayyal Gadfd being killed by a member of the Ker Gedi section 
of the Ba-Gadabursi Shirdone clan ; after the duel the Shirdone 
man had run away to his karia. 
The whole of the Ayyal Gadfd sub-tribe who were in Bulh&r 
at once assembled to drive the Shirdone out of the town, and 
Mr. Jones promptly shut up five of the slayer’s relatives in the 
lock-up to prevent their being lynched. Next day he sent half 
a dozen police, mounted on fast camels, to catch the murderer, 
and in the evening I walked out with my host to a crowd of 
Gadfd, who were burying the dead man wrapped up in a white 
tobe : we found that he had already been partly eaten by hyaenas 
before being brought in, as one fleshless arm-bone was standing 
out from under the tobe. 
We left Bulliar on 16th February, marched about twelve 
miles, and camped at Eil Sheikh, between Elmas Mountain and 
the sea. We took up eighty gallons of water at Eil Sheikh 
for the waterless march of fifty miles to Kabri Bahr. On the 
following day I shot an aoul buck with the Martini-Henry while 
on the march, the meat being very welcome. I saw a good 
many beisa and followed a pair of ostriches, but both without 
success, the flat-topped khansa bushes being very thick and 
thorny, and difficult to get through. We reached Kabri Bahr on 
the 19th, and Digan on the evening of the same day. 
Here one of Colonel Carrington’s men came into camp from 
the west, having been sent to look for elephants. I sent a note 
to the Colonel, whom I had met in India, giving him notice that 
I was on a trip to the far interior, and should not interfere with 
