APPENDIX I 
343 
Rate per 
month. 
Rupees. 
Rupees. 
Brought forward 
225 
25 
1 assistant hunter .... 
37i 
20 
1 groom, or personal cam elm an 
80 
15 
4 baggage camelmen .... 
90 
18 
1 mdkadam , or head camelman 
2 guides (engaged temporarily) 
27 
15 
45 
12 
1 sheep-boy (engaged temporarily) 
Shooting presents may be paid for from the 
cash and cloth taken to the interior. 
At the close of the trip a parting present will 
18 
be expected by each man. Add 15 per cent . 
Add pay of headman, butler, and cook, for a 
week before and a week after the trip, to help 
70 
in organising and breaking up the expedition . 
60 
Total 
6024 
Thus, the money spent in Somaliland itself for a six weeks’ trip should 
be in round numbers as follows : — 
Rupees. 
Purchase and sale of necessaries at coast, and ex- 
penses on trip .... 550 
Purchase and sale of camels . . . 200 
Pay of men of the caravan . . . 602J 
Total 1 352J- say 1400 
Of this expenditure, part will occur when starting and part when 
breaking up the caravan at the close of the trip. The whole of this 
money should be placed in the charge of a native merchant or banker at 
Berbera, and any Somali follower may then be paid off either at the coast 
or in the interior by an order for the necessary sum, written on a scrap of 
paper. 
The above estimate gives over 900 Rs. a month without counting 
European tinned stores, European outfit and passages. 
Example II 
We will assume that one European is going to travel for two months, 
purely for sport, in the Haud and the most accessible parts of Ogaden. 
The distance across the Haud by the usual road from Hargeisa to Milmil 
is covered in five and a half days, going two marches a day, and for all 
journeys going far into the Haud, or crossing to Ogaden, arrangements 
should be made for carrying at least seven days’ water. To the east of 
Milmil the Haud becomes much wider. From the experience of eight 
journeys across the Haud, I have found that a gallon per man per diem 
for all purposes is the proper allowance for a Somali who is on ordinary 
rations a gallon and a half for a native of India, and two gallons for a 
