CHAPTER VII 
FIRST JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABELEH RIVER, 1893 
Form an ambush over the pool at Kuredelli — A rhinoceros wounded — Un- 
successful hunt after the rhinoceros — Two lions seen — Another rhinoceros 
wounded at the pool ; three lionesses arrive ; interesting moonlight scene 
—A lioness drinks, and is wounded — Death of the lioness — Follow and 
bag the rhinoceros — Exciting hyaena-hunt with pistol and knife — Abbas- 
giil fight — Unsuccessful rliinoceros-hunt — We march into the monsoon — 
Waller’s gazelle wounded by me and pulled down by a leopard — Death 
of the leopard — Camp again at Tuli — Two rhinoceroses bagged ; furious 
charge — The Sheikh Asli. a friendly tribe — A leopard in camp — Ambush 
at the Garba-aleli pool ; leopard and hyaena bagged — Abundance of game 
— First enter zebra country — Man-eating lions at Durhi — Malingur at 
Durlii — Elephant -hunting in Daghatto Valley ; a bull bagged — Large 
number of elephants — Interesting scene in Daghatto — Leopards seen — 
Uninhabited country — Difficulty in finding the Rer Arnaden tribe — Halt 
at Enleh and send out scouts. 
I left Jig-Jiga for tlie Jerer Valley and- Ogaden country on 
26th March 1893, with the whole of my caravan, consisting of 
three fast Aden camels, thirty-three baggage camels, and the 
mule Ras Makunan had given me ; and I had still my following 
of the twenty-one faithful Somalis armed with Snider carbines. 
I had finished my visit to Harar ; and now, armed with R&s 
Makunan’s passport, I was free to strike across Somhliland to 
the Webbe Shabeleh river, four hundred miles inland, and to 
shoot big game unmolested by Abyssinian soldiers, and, what 
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