24 TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 
The same pandemonium attended our disembarking. 
All our fellow voyagers seemed to have accompanied 
the trip for no other reason than to act as porters. 
There were now more porters than packages, and so the 
men fought for the mastery to the imminent danger of 
our goods and chattels. Order was restored by our 
soldier friends, who at last displayed a little talent for 
administration ; and sorting out the porters into some 
sort of system, soon had them running away, like 
loaded-up ants, with our packages and kit to the 
travellers 5 bungalow in the European square, whither 
we speedily followed them, and established ourselves. 
It was quite a comfortable auherge , and seemed like 
heaven after that abominable toy steamer, and we 
christened it the “ Cecil 55 at once. 
Cecily began to sort our things into some degree of 
sequence. I could not help her. I was all at sea still, 
and felt every toss of the voyage over. These sort of 
battles fought o’er again are, to say the least, not 
pleasant. 
We had not arrived so very long before our master 
of the ceremonies came to discover us, with my 
uncle’s letter clasped in his brown hand. I shall 
never forget the amazement on the man’s face as we 
introduced ourselves. I could not at first make out 
what on earth could be the matter, but at last the truth 
dawned on me. He had not expected to find us of the 
feminine persuasion. 
Our would-be henchman’s name was unpronounce- 
able, and sounded more like 46 Clarence ” than anything, 
so Clarence he remained to the end — a really fine, 
