INTRODUCTION 
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Mr. W. E. de Winton (mammals) ; Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe 
and Dr. E. Hartert (birds). 
Some of the incidents in the following pages have 
appeared in the columns of the Field, the Sporting and 
Dramatic News, the Gentlewoman, the Pall Mall Gazette, 
the Wide World Magazine, and the Sketch; and I am 
much indebted to the editors of these papers and magazine 
for allowing me to reproduce them here. 
Owing to the constant glare of the sun it is extremely 
difficult to take good clear photographs in Somaliland, and 
I regret that some of mine have not come out quite so well 
as I expected. 
There is no attempt at literary skill in these pages. 
They simply record facts taken from my diary, and the 
reader will readily understand how difficult it has been 
to avoid monotony when recording my daily life in camp 
and on the march. 
I regret to say that my very large collection of insects, 
including several new genera and many new species, has 
not yet been worked out, and is at the last moment 
unavoidably excluded. 
I cannot close this introduction without a word of 
praise to Mr. Edward Gerrard, of Camden Town, London, 
who set up all my big game trophies in a most natural 
and life-like manner. 
c. y. A. p. 
Peel Fold, Oxford, 
1899. 
