226 THROUGH SOMAL/LAJVD AND ABYSSINIA chap. 
under the crest of Gan Libah Mountain, which is six thousand 
feet above sea-level. The height of our camp was four thousand 
five hundred feet. In the morning, while the men were moving 
camp to the new site, I took my two hunters Geli and Hassan, 
and an Esa Musa guide from some karias we found at Mandeira, 
and searched the hills for koodoo, but only saw some females 
and young, so made for camp, which we found pitched in a 
pretty little glade on the hillside. I had no tent, but a small 
hut made of camel-mats, covered over with waterproof sheets, 
and fastened to poles cut from the thorn-bushes. To the east, 
just below camp, was a rocky torrent-bed, with stretches of flat 
sand in the bottom, and a small stream trickling through it, 
forming waterfalls of a foot or two in height, and flowing north- 
wards into the Tug Mandeira. All the country for a mile or 
two round was very much broken and cut up by ravines from 
GMi Libah and other high mountains overlooking the camp ; 
and in these ravines were long strips of the gudd jungle, with 
thick aloe undergrowth four feet high. 
Three miles north-west, on the right bank of the Tug Mandeira 
sand-river, rises a curious pinnacle or boss of hard rock, called 
Dagaha Todoballa, or the u Rock of the Seven Robbers.” The 
story goes that seven Jibril Abokr robbers came from the west 
on one of their periodical raids, to search for plunder among the 
Esa Musa flocks grazing at the foot of the Golis Range ; but the 
Esa Musa collected in force, and these men fled to the top of the 
almost inaccessible rock, where they were surrounded and finally 
cut to pieces by the enraged tribesmen. Rising as it does to a 
height of about a hundred feet above a sea of jungle of the large 
gudd thorn-trees, it forms a beautiful addition to Mandeira 
scenery. There are several of these rocks and hillocks in the 
Mandeira Valley, and the large thorn-jungles round their bases 
are the home of the lesser koodoo, which combines many of the 
beauties of both the greater koodoo and the African striped bush- 
buck, and is midway between them in size. There are also wart- 
hog, Waller’s gazelle, the tiny Dik-dik, or Sdkdro , as well as 
guinea-fowl and greater koodoo in the mountains. 
On the evening of 5th June 1 went out again with the 
same men, holding south-west along the low^er slopes of a ridge 
called Gol Aderyu, or the “ Hill of Koodoos ” ; and here bagged 
a splendid koodoo bull. When Geli first saw him we were 
moving along the base of the hills, crossing several torrent-beds, 
all more or less hidden under gudd trees, with bare gravelly 
