i8o TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 
ornament minus the seccotine. We covered the 
wounds with iodoform — very amateurishly of course — 
and then bandaged it. Altogether I think the invalid 
was rather pleased with himself, as he lay up in the 
cache-tent, feeling, doubtless, the importance of 
having been in the jaws of a lion and come out alive 
from such a gin. 
As we could not move him for several days, we 
arranged to form quite a good zareba, strong and 
comfortable, round our follower, and make flying 
excursions of which it should be the base. The 
wounded hunter proved a very unwilling dawdler, 
being an active-souled creature, and did not take at all 
kindly to a life of enforced idleness. He acted like an 
irritated vegetable, and only slept and drowsed the 
hours away, and kept his leg up, because I solemnly 
told him he would die if he did not. I think the 
active spirits in nations not yet civilised are always the 
better. Laziness is demoralising anywhere, and with 
it one soon harks back to the animal. Energetic 
souls are never idle from choice. The power to idle 
successfully and with comfort must be inborn. During 
his days of illness our charge grew really attached to 
us, and looked for our coming with an expansive 
smile of welcome. We kept the fever down with 
quinine, and before many weeks were over his scars 
were healed into cicatrices, which, of course, he could 
never lose. They would, however, be a glorious asset 
and advertisement, showing such undoubted zeal, and 
should commend the proprietor to any one on the 
look-out for a truly sporting hunter. 
