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appoint a regular hour every day in which to hold a 
clinic. The poor creatures would come from far and 
near, with all kinds of nasty ulcers and wounds to 
attend to. The Ogadens, who had been driven from 
the interior, where it is most healthy, suffered much from 
malaria in the Webi valley, many of them possessing the 
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largest spleens I have ever felt. 
SOMALI KNIFE, SPEARHEAD, COMB, AND AMULET. 
While I was fishing one day at the river, one of the 
natives stole a cartridge from my boy Ahamed. The 
theft was discovered at once. but for a time it looked 
as though we were going to have a fight to get the 
cartridge back. My boys caught the thief, who finally 
showed where he had thrown the cartridge, after I had 
threatened him with a flogging; but many of his friends, 
who were Adones, stood about in a menacing manner, 
calling at us insolently and threatening to throw their 
spears at us. I determined to give the natives a little 
