CHAPTER X 
SECOND JOURNEY TO THE WEBBE SHABELEH RIVER, 1893 
The new caravan — Pass Lord Delamere’s party — Captain Abud in camp at 
Hargeisa — Sheikh Mattar — Cross the Hand, and arrive at Seyyid Mahomed’s 
town in Ogaden — Holy reputation — Why the Somalis have no Mahdi — 
Scene at the Seyyid’s town — Native impression of European travellers — 
Every European a doctor — Malingur mission to Harar — Ruspoli’s men 
seized — Jama Deria’s Englishman — Reach the Webbe and bag a water- 
buck — Friendly Gilimiss Somalis — First news of the Webbe bushbuck — 
Shooting a crocodile — Great beauty of our camp on the Webbe banks — 
Galla raids on the Gilimiss — The crossing of the Webbe at Karanleh — 
Unexpected Galla news — Entertain Galla chiefs in camp ; a defiant 
speech — A Galla trip planned — Fresh hippo tracks in the reeds — A 
waterbuck swims the Webbe ; a noble buck — Sad death of a horse — 
The Aulihan — A row in camp — Unsuccessful buffalo-hunting — Wounded 
waterbuck struck down by a lion — Starving negroes eat the carrion — 
Disturbed country ; the Galla trip impracticable — Recross the Webbe — 
Driving for bushbuck — A wart-hog bagged — A man seized by a lion ; 
extraordinary story — A leopard bagged — A buck killed by leopards 
before our eyes — A row at Garbo — Success of the Lee-Metford — The 
Aware pan ; beautiful hunting-ground — Lions roaring at night — Un- 
successful lion-hunts — Magnificent lion shot ; a surprising leap — Abund- 
ance of lions — Return to Berbera ; and go to England. 
During the first trip to the Webbe we had been four and a 
half months in the interior, travelling over more than eleven 
hundred miles of camel-track. I found at Aden that an 
