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JOURNEY TO WEBBE SHA B ELEH RIVER 
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and threaded our way to camp, leading the donkey, through the 
darkness. Sending out horsemen next morning, the tracks of 
the pair could not be found, so it was decided that their roars 
must either have been uttered from an immense distance, or that 
they must have been devils ! But I think that, owing to the 
wet weather, their voices appeared much nearer than they really 
were. 
My leave being at an end, we marched for Adadleh, over a 
waterless tract of Haud ninety miles in extent. We covered 
this distance in nine marches, or four and a half days, the whole 
of the country passed over being one continuous sea of dense 
bush, dotted with red ant-hills, some of the spires being twenty- 
five feet high. We arrived at Berbera on the 31st of October 
1893, and next day I crossed to Aden on the way to England. 
FEMALE LOWLAND GAZELLE (Gazella pelzelni). 
Average length of horns on curve about 7 to 8 inches. 
