204 TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 
pack camels ! We struck. It was going a little too 
far. We made a huge fuss, and some one, probably 
the cook, who seemed a more casual person than most, 
attended to this little matter from that time onwards 
and things went quite smoothly. I am sure these 
scruples about pigs are very largely labour-saving 
dodges. 
Next morning as we marched we came on a half- 
eaten lesser koodoo, surrounded by a lot of kites, 
vultures, and white carrion storks, tall, imposing- 
looking birds. We shot one to cure as a specimen, 
damaging it rather. It had a horrid smell, but was 
very handsome. One of the hunters skinned it at 
our next camp. 
The American who was out with Clarence on his 
last big shikar seemed to have been outrageously free 
and easy in his dealings with the men. In fact, in 
one or two trifling ways such habits as we heard of 
had rather been to Clarence’s detriment. A very 
little encouragement breeds too great familiarity in 
any native of narrow mind. I do not mean to infer 
that Clarence presumed, or that his judgment was 
ever at fault in his dealings with us, merely that I was 
annoyed to hear some of his stories relating to the 
terms on which the men of the camp were on with 
the free and open-hearted Yankee. One would think 
that an American, with the nigger problem ever before 
him, would be more stand-offish than most people. 
May be he considered himself on a real holiday, and 
let his national socialistic tendencies run riot. This 
is not 44 writ sarcastic,” for I’m a Socialist myself, and 
