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MY SOMALI BOOK 



when game is scarce, must be taken, with a donkey 

 or two, and perhaps a few goats, for bait : also, in my 

 opinion, a couple of milch camels. Any special success 

 should be celebrated by a present of a sheep or two 

 to one's men. For presents in the interior some cloth 

 for tobes should be taken with two or three korans or 

 bead chaplets for mullahs. I did not find much need 

 for these presents, usually pajdng for services in cash ; 

 but as you go further afield you will need more, and 

 would do well to take a small supply of knives, mirrors, 

 and other articles to supplement the cloth, only 

 remember that, as Swayne says, the Somali has no 

 use for rubbish. 



To come to the human element in the caravan. 

 My following, with rates of pay, were as follows : — 



Personal servant . 



Cook .... 



1st Shikari and head-man 



2nd Shikari 



3rd Shikari . 



Syce .... 



7 Camel-men 



2 Boys (for odd jobs and care of sheep) 



at 20/- per mensem 



at 20/- 



at 60/- 



at 35/- 



at 25/- 



at 15/- „ 



each 15/- „ 



each 8/- ,, 



Many, indeed nearly all, sportsmen have a separate 

 head-man. H. advised me to get a good head shikari, 

 pay him well and make him do the head-man's work. 

 I have done so twice and found it an excellent arrange- 

 ment, and there was none of the clashing of views 

 that must sometimes occur when the head of the 

 caravan is not the shikar leader. On a long expedition 

 it may be difierent, but for a trip of two or three months 

 a separate head-man is likely to prove both a nuisance 

 and an unnecessary luxury. There is one camel-man 



