Note.—Recent press statements that Somdliland is unsurveyed are incorrect, 
as the Indian Surveys of 1886, 1891, and 1892 were official and in my 
charge. 
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION 
ON THE 
“MAD MULLAH” RISINGS 
Durine the last three years the ‘Mad Mullah” risings in 
Ogadén, directed against Abyssinia and the tribes of the British 
Protectorate, have disturbed the interior of the Somali country 
and made administration difficult. 
Some mention of this disturbance seems necessary to bring 
my book up to date; though it should be explained that I have 
not been actively employed in Somaliland since the time of the 
Mission to King Menelik. 
Duty took me to Somaliland at intervals between 1885 and 
1897, and duty has latterly kept me in India. When I at last 
had a chance of going this year I was obliged to decline on the 
ground of illness. 
My younger brother has been more fortunate. First joining 
me on the surveys during 1891 and 1892, after a long absence 
on active service in Uganda, he returned to Somaliland in 1900 
to organise a levy of Somalis against the Mad Mullah. Later 
he became Commissioner with military charge, and has been 
promoted for his recent good service. 
My treatment of this subject is therefore on my own respon- 
sibility, and I can write from a more or less independent point 
of view. 
It is only necessary to point to the chapters of this book, 
published eight years ago by permission of the authorities at the 
time, and to facts, of varying accuracy, daily set forth in the 
press, to find enough material from which to draw fairly correct 
inferences as to the general conditions which led up to the present 
trouble. 
In the tangle caused by the meeting of two sets of interests 
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