TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 
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collection backward and outward turning ones. Aoul 
is a very common gazelle in all parts of open country, 
barring South-East Somaliland, and travels about in 
vast herds. Its extraordinary inquisitiveness makes it 
fall a very easy victim. 
Clarence went out with us in turn. His alternative 
was a fine upstanding fellow, but after three or four 
expeditions with him as guide I deposed him from the 
position of second hunter. He was slow, and lost 
his presence of mind on the smallest provocation, 
both of them fatal defects in a big game hunter, where 
quickness of brain and readiness of resource is a sine 
qua non. 
