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handsome fellow, not very dark, about the Arab colour, 
with a mop of dark hair turning slightly grey. His 
features were of the Arab type, and I should say a 
strong Arab strain ran in his family, stronger even than 
in most Somali tribes. I think the Arab tinge exists 
more or less in every one of them. Anyhow, they are 
not of negritic descent. 
Our man used the Somali “ Nabad ” asa salutation, 
instead of the “ Salaam aleikum ” of the Arabs. The 
last is the most generally used. We heard it almost 
invariably in the Ogaden and Marehan countries. 
Clarence had donned resplendent garb in which to give 
us greeting, and discarding the ordinary everyday 
white to be had dressed himself in the khaili, a tobe 
dyed in shades of the tricolour, fringed with orange. 
We never saw him again tricked out like this ; evidently 
the get-up must have been borrowed for the occasion. 
He wore a tusba , or prayer chaplet, round his neck, 
and the beads were made from some wood that had a 
pleasant aroma. A business-like dagger was at the 
waist ; Peace and War were united. 
I noticed what long tapering fingers the Somali had, 
and quite aristocratic hands, though so brown. He 
had a very graceful way of standing too. In fact all 
his movements were lithe and lissome, telling us he 
was a jungle man. I liked him the instant I set eyes 
on him, and we were friends from the day we met to 
the day we parted. Had we been unable to secure his 
services I do not know where we should have ended, 
or what the trip might have cost. Everyone in Berbera 
seemed bent on making us pay for things twice over, 
