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ships, together with a Christian Science lady who lay 

 in her berth most days crooning hymns to herself in 

 between violent paroxysms of mal-de-mer. I always 

 understood that in Christian Science you do not have 

 to be ill if you do not want to. This follower of the 

 faith was very bad indeed, and didn't seem to like the 

 condition of things much. We rather thought of 

 questioning her on the apparent discrepancy, but 

 judged it wiser to leave the matter alone. It is as well 

 to keep on good terms with one's cabin mate. 



Nothing really exciting occurred on the voyage, but 

 one of the passengers provided a little amusement by 

 her management, or rather mismanagement, of an 

 awkward affair. Almost as soon as we started I 

 noticed we had an unusually pretty stewardess, and 

 that a warrior returning to India appeared to agree 

 with me. He waylaid her at every opportunity, and I 

 often came on them whispering in corners of passages 

 o' nights. Of course it had nothing to do with me 

 what the stewardess did, for I am thankful to say I did 

 not require her tender ministrations on the voyage at 

 all. Well, in the next cabin to ours was a silly little 

 woman — I had known her for years — going out to 

 join her husband, a colonel of Indian Lancers. She 

 made the most never-ending fuss about the noise 

 made by a small baby in the adjoining cabin. One 

 night, very late, Mrs. R. could not, or would not, 

 endure the din any longer, so decided to oust the 

 stewardess from her berth in the ladies' cabin, the 

 stewardess to come to the vacated one next the wailing 

 baby. All this was duly carried into effect, and the 



