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JOURNEY TO WEBBE SHABELEH RIVER 
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While it was yet light a large spotted hyaena came warily 
up to the water, looking round to right and left, and starting 
nervously at every sound, and I shot him through the brain as 
he drank, his body dropping into the water. At dusk a beauti- 
ful male leopard walked down to the pool, and I fired, hitting 
him through the lungs ; he stumbled away and fell in a ravine 
a few yards on the farther side of the pool. Fearing hyaenas 
would come and spoil the skin, we got a lantern and went to 
look for him, and walking up cautiously to the ravine we found 
him lying dead. With my whistle I called up three men, and 
bearing the leopard to camp, we skinned him by the camp fire, 
I then returned to the pool and missed a hyaena, and finding it 
was too dark to shoot, and that mosquitoes, which breed in 
these stagnant pools, were rather bad round our bower, making 
it impossible to keep still, I went to camp and turned in for 
the night. 
On 14th April we marched to Eil-ki-Gabro, and found lion 
and rhino tracks at the water. Making another shelter I sat 
up on the chance of a shot, but saw nothing. Disappointed 
here, the next day we went to NMio, a small valley in the 
mountains, where we found plenty of game, the kinds seen being 
koodoo, lesser koodoo, beisa oryx, Soemmerring’s and Waller’s 
