046 TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 



since gone to sleep, and pins and needles pricked it. 

 The bushes trembled, then were still, and stealthily, 

 with very little movement, the beautiful antelope 

 moved away. I saw him as he circled round a bend in 

 the jungle, and in a flash he was gone. Really I had 

 enjoyed my morning as keenly as though I had added 

 to my bag an hundredfold. 



And so back to camp I went, and as I went I notched 

 the trees that I might find the right place in my 

 " Hedd-Godir " (koodoo forest) again. I wanted 

 Cecily to come with me and try and track my friend 

 the lesser koodoo. When I got home, I found all the 

 men congregated round one whom they said was grie- 

 vously hurt through a camel falling on him. I couldn't 

 find anything wrong, no broken bones, but the man 

 said the pain internally was very great, almost un- 

 bearable. I got out my hypodermic syringe and 

 injected some of the morphia we had in case of emer- 

 gencies into the arm, to the wonderment of the men, 

 and then I had the invalid placed down on a camel- 

 mat to sleep, and all the other men were forbidden 

 to disturb the invalid. And lo ! when the effects of 

 the morphia wore off we heard no more of aches and 

 pains. It was the cure of the trip. And the " coogeri " 

 medicine was held in high esteem ever afterwards. 

 I asked what " coogeri " meant, and was told — 

 " inside." 



Sitting on a camp chair in peace and quietness, 

 with a book and the cup that cheers, Clarence broke 

 in on us to say that a party of twenty-five horsemen 

 had arrived prepared to dibaltig before us — Heaven 



