ENROLLING OUR FOLLOWERS 



The next morning we marched the men to the 

 Vice-Consul's office to register their names and tribes. 

 These particulars, together with the date of engagement, 

 etc., were duly duplicated, one copy being kept in Lieu- 

 tenant Harold's office and the other handed to us. This 

 saves endless misunderstanding and worry, and prevents 

 the desertion of one's men. In the evening we went 

 round the bazaar, but except for a few Esa spears and 

 shields, the rather curious round work-boxes of the 

 women, made of plaited grass and ornamented with 

 shells and beads, and amulets sewn in leather-work and 

 worn round the neck, arm, or chest of every Somali 

 man, there was little interesting to buy. 



On the evening of the iith Captain Harrington and 

 Mr. Baird started for the capital with their immediate 

 followers. The horses and dogs sent by Queen Victoria 

 to the Emperor were under the charge of an English 

 groom named Bradley. Sections of this caravan had 

 been going forward all day. Among them were the 

 escort of Indian Sowars, Soudanese police in charge of 

 the treasure, carpenters to build the Residency, cooks, 

 tailors, and washermen. These, w^th their loads of 

 every kind — from a steel safe in sections to a phonograph, 

 from a 4-bore rifle to a case of Mauser pistols, from 

 window-glass to a grindstone — made an imposing array. 

 The diversity of articles necessary may be easily under- 

 stood, since it was necessary to take up everything 

 required to build and furnish a house in which to 

 live and entertain all and sundry, from the Emperor 

 to the sporting globe-trotter. It was a wonderful sight, 

 and to appreciate the forethought and organisation 



