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KOODOO-STALKING ON GOLIS RANGE 
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round the base of a peaked mountain called Hambeileh 
Weina, by a camel-track, with orders to make two marches to 
Garbadir, and camp at ArmMeh water, ArmMeh to the east 
and Massleh to the west being two of several valleys which 
joined to form the district called Garbadir. The grazing grounds 
of Garbadir, filling a semicircle of about six miles’ radius, formed 
a bay in Golis Range, under Daar Ass Bluff, which is about 
6500 feet above the sea. Garbadir was wooded with large guda 
thorn-forest, plenty of grass growing in the glades, and the 
ground was covered with fresh tracks of the Esa Musa flocks. 
It was at Armaleh Garbadir that I had formed my first shooting 
camp in 1885. 
From my Hen weina camp into Garbadir there was a short 
cut over the mountains which was impassable for camels, and 
this path I took with my two gunbearers and an Esa Musa 
guide, ascending and descending about a thousand feet over 
the neck between the Hambeileh Weina pointed peak and the 
top of Daar Ass. At a height of about five thousand feet above 
the sea we found several Esa Musa cattle karias, perched on the 
mountains, with flat stretches of pasture. The Esa Musa herds- 
men showed me the tracks of a large koodoo, which I knew to 
be those of a bull I had hunted once or twice during the last 
few days, and called the Darei-Hosei koodoo, after the name of 
the gully in which he was generally seen by the shepherds in 
the early mornings ; but as he had passed by at dawn, several 
hours before, I held on for the Armaleh camp, leaving Massleh 
Valley two miles behind us on my right. 
I resolved not to disturb Massleh gorge till we should hear 
news of the Massleh koodoo. Arriving at Armaleh a little after 
noon, I sent some Esa Musa shepherds to Massleh with orders 
to sit on points of vantage and watch the gorge for the appear- 
ance of the koodoo when he should awake from sleep in the 
afternoon ; and if they should see him, to run and let me know. 
Meanwhile I sat down and waited for the caravan to come round 
by the road. 
At about four o’clock, acting on the information of an old 
woman collecting firewood, I went after pig, and came to the 
Massleh water ; we here found several women and girls filling 
their bark water-vessels preparatory to carrying them on their 
backs to their huts, who told us they had just seen a wart-hog 
boar come to drink, and then run away without drinking. 
Following on the tracks, we came suddenly on him twenty yards 
