APPENDIX I 341 
ously been sent round by sea. There is generally great trouble about the 
shipping of loaded cartridges, and they should he sent on ahead. 
When staying at a hotel in Aden I usually went to the Hotel de 
l'Europe, in the Crescent, Steamer Point. The accommodation at all 
the hotels in Aden is very primitive. So far as I can remember, board 
and lodging in Aden would come to between 7 and 14 rupees per diem. 
At Aden the following articles,! if considered necessary, may be pur- 
chased or made to order :— 
Coats for the men, of ‘“‘khaki” or drab-colonred drill (3 rupees), 
eartridge-belts to contain thirty rounds (1 rupee), also pouches (4 rupee), 
brown blankets for followers (3 rupees). Six wooden boxes to contain 
stores or liquors, as before described, can be made in the bazaar for 
between 1 and 2 mpees each, or they may be obtained in London with a 
fortnight’s supplies in gach box. Ifa camel-pad is required it can be got 
in Aden for 10 rupees.” 
The two Parsi firms with which I have had most dealings are Messrs. 
Pallonjee Dinshaw and Messrs. Cowasjee Dinshaw Bros., both of the 
Crescent, Aden. The latter is probably the larger firm, and does a great 
deal of business with the shipping passing through Aden. But when I 
have not had time to get what I wanted from one I have tried the other. 
Cowasjee is in correspondence with Mr. Mahomed Hindi, a Hindustani 
merchant permanently living in Berbera; and Pallonjee is also accustomed 
to do business with the Somali coast. 
All information concerning passages to and from the Somali coast can 
be obtained by applying to either of the two Parsi firms named. Two 
coasting steamers visit the coast ports of Berbera, Bulhar, and Zeila once 
a week each. The usual charge was 20 rupees for one Eur opean and his 
baggage, and 5 rupees for each native. 
Under the heading of purchase and sale of necessaries at the coast will 
come the following :— 
Purchase before Sale on 
leaving coast. return. 
Rupees. Rupees. 
11 sets of hério, or camel-mats . 4 » 40 12 
11 leather loading ropes . 13 3 
9 native axes 5 . 6 2 
6 hangol, or wooden crooks : 2 1 
4 knives for cutting camel-rope . ; 2 i 
Several bundles of common loading rope . 10 2 
20 iron tent-pegs . ° . : 6 ae 
Cloth for payment in interior . . 200 
Cash for payment on journey (in small silv er) . 120 
Rations for Somalis :— 
Rice, 4 bags ; : . 40 
Dates, 3 gosra . 24 
Ghee, 5 gumba 55 
Extras é ¢ ‘ 12 
Total 530 20 
1 The prices given in this appendix have been corrected, as far as possible, up to 
2 There are two kinds of pad-saddles used by Arab coolies in Aden, a large one for 
