104 TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 
last we should provide if the animals could not be 
despatched in a quicker, more humane manner. The 
4 6 hallal ” slash across the throat seems only to be 
really efficacious if the animal to be killed is in full 
possession of its senses. They might easily be stunned 
first. When we killed antelope for meat the shikari 
always satisfied himself first that the animal was alive 
before he bothered to give the “ hallal.” This seems 
rather an Irishism, but you understand how I mean. 
Somali sheep are never shorn, for their wool attains 
no length. This is another of dear Nature’s wise arrange- 
ments. I do not like to imagine the condition of any 
poor sheep in the Somali sun with a coat on like unto 
the ones grown by our animals at home. The number 
of sheep in Somaliland is as the sands of the sea. Such 
vast flocks would be large even in an avowedly sheep- 
producing country where the rearing of them is 
reduced to a fine art. The Somali animals thrive and 
multiply with hardly any attention. They never grow 
horns, and have the most extraordinary tails, huge 
lumps of fat, which wax all very fine and large if the 
pasturage is good, and dwindle at once if the herbage 
is scanty. Carefully fostered, the sheep raising industry 
could support the country. The export at present is 
as nothing to what it might be engineered into. 
