246 TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 
since gone to sleep, and pins and needles pricked it. 
The bushes trembled, then were still, and stealthily, 
with very little movement, the beautiful antelope 
moved away. I saw him as he circled round a bend in 
the jungle, and in a flash he was gone. Really I had 
enjoyed my morning as keenly as though I had added 
to my bag an hundredfold. 
And so back to camp I went, and as I went I notched 
the trees that I might find the right place in my 
“ Hedd-Godir 55 (koodoo forest) again. I wanted 
Cecily to come with me and try and track my friend 
the lesser koodoo. When I got home I found all the 
men congregated round one who they said was grie- 
vously hurt through a camel falling on him. I couldn’t 
find anything wrong, no broken bones, but the man 
said the pain internally was very great, almost un- 
bearable. I got out my hypodermic syringe and 
injected some of the morphia we had in case of emer- 
gencies into the arm, to the wonderment of the men, 
and then I had the invalid placed down on a camel- 
mat to sleep, and all the other men were forbidden 
to disturb the invalid. And lo ! when the effects of 
the morphia wore off we heard no more of aches and 
pains. It was the cure of the trip. And the 44 coogeri ” 
medicine was held in high esteem ever afterwards. 
I asked what 44 coogeri ” meant, and was told — 
64 inside.” 
Sitting on a camp chair in peace and quietness, 
with a book and the cup that cheers, Clarence broke 
in on us to say that a party of twenty-five horsemen 
had arrived prepared to dibaltig before us — Heaven 
