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THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA ch. ix 
had crashed, his horns measuring 52 inches and 53 inches 
respectively round the curve, and 3 feet 1 inch in a straight 
line from base to tip, and 37 inches between tips ; and his 
massive neck was adorned with a fine white and brown beard. 
There was a slight malformation in the hoof of his right fore-leg 
which accounted for his lameness, but did not much interfere 
with his speed when galloping. 
We carried his head back to camp in the dusk, leaving three 
men to skin him ; and we sent back all the Esa Musa, whom 
we could collect in the valley below on our way to camp, 
telling them to go up and scramble for the meat. Having now 
bagged three good bull koodoos in as many weeks, which is 
about the usual rate of successful and lucky koodoo-stalking in 
these mountains, and my leave being up, I went in three short 
marches to Berbera, and a week later caught a steamer to 
Aden. 
