TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 205 
if I were a professional politician I should be a Socialist 
of a kind that very soon, in our time, will be the 
usual type all over the world. At present, the Social- 
ists, by going too far, by plucking the fruit ere it is 
ripe, have brought ridicule on themselves and their 
cause, and by associating themselves with nihilists, 
anarchists, and destructionists generally, have alienated 
the sympathy of all moderate, gradual, and practical 
reformers. The days for revolutions have gone by, 
and the reforms urgently required by almost every 
European nation can take place without the painting 
red of the great cities. 
Gracious ! I am digressing ! And talking like a 
suffragette ! This is supposed to be a book on sport 
-—mostly. Other things will creep in, and come 
crowding to my pen, crying, “ Put me down ! Put me 
down ! ” But — a big But : did you ever know a 
woman stick to the point ? 
Everywhere we came on ancient elephant tracks, 
but I think it would have been difficult to find any 
sort of a specimen. We heard of none having been 
seen for years, yet it has always been understood 
that at no distant time this part of the Haweea was a 
resort for herds of the great pachyderms. 
We were now not more than a week’s trek off the 
east coast line. Wonderful ! Or we thought it so 
who had marched from Berbera. At our next halt 
we came on a lake, a real lake, a delightful spot, quite 
a good-sized sheet of water, 125 yards or so across, 
and formed in a basin of gypsum-like rock. We had 
not seen so much water en masse since leaving the sea, 
