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New Publications. 
“Two DIANAS IN SOMALILAND” is one of the 
Jatest books of direct interest to big game hun- 
ters. It hardly needs the descriptive sub-title 
which follows “The Record of a Shooting Trip, by 
Agnes Herbert,” for although the sportsmen may 
smile over the idea of two women spending 
nearly five months in northeastern Africa, ac- 
tively engaged in shooting big game, assisted 
by natives only, incredulity soon gives way to 
admiration, for the book is one of the most in- 
teresting of the year. One soon loses sight of 
the fact that Miss Herbert and her cousin Cecily 
—her companion—are timid women, for few har- 
dened travelers of the stronger sex would care 
to undertake a journey calling for greater cour- 
age and endurance than the one these ladies suc- 
cessfully negotiated. 
Miss Herbert explains in her introduction that 
she and her cousin had already hunted big game 
in the Rocky Mountains and in Scotland, and 
that they had been instructed thoroughly in rifle 
shooting by an uncle who had been a. famous 
big game hunter until an encounter with a lion 
had permanently ended his hunting days. If 
was he, too, who assisted them in many ways 
in preparing for their trip to a region he was 
familiar with. Fortunately, too, they secured 
at Berbera the services of a native hunter whe! 
was known by their uncle to be absolutely re- 
liable, and a good manager of camel men and 
hunters. 
It happened that two Englishmen started from 
Berbera on a similar excursion at the same time 
they did, but although one of the men was re- 
lated to both Miss Herbert and her cousin, every 
attempt to join forces was thwarted, each party 
going its own way, although their trails crossed 
twice in the desert, the last time fortunately 
for the author, who had been badly gored by an 
oryx, so that blood poisoning set in and her life 
was despaired of. This was her second serious 
injury, the first one being sustained when 2 
lion ran over her. In both, and on several other 
occasions, the splendid marksmanship and coo] 
nerve of her cousin saved her. And these com- 
paratively frail women shot lions and rhinoce-| 
roses and leopards and the larger antelope with 
double 12 bore express rifles charged with round 
balls and 5134 drams of powder—a stiff charge) 
for a six-footer. Only on few occasions does 
Miss Herbert admit that womanly fear took the 
place of courage, and the cause of this was the 
fact that she had seen one of her native hunters 
killed by a rhinoceros she had wounded by ae 
snap shot in the jungle. 
The cousins shot rhinoceros, lion, feddardl | i 
hartebeest, dibatog, gerentik, oryx, aoul, Speke’s: 
gazelle, klipspringer, Pelzeln’s gazelle, hyzna} 
warthog, jackal, wolf, ostrich, marabou, dikdik 
and other game. A pleasing feature of the nar-|, 
rative is the anxiety Miss Herbert often felt for} 
animals that were wounded but lost, of whick 
she mentions very few; and this in a regior 
where cripples seldom survived the day, sch 
numerous were beasts of prey. Once the caravarii 
came on a sleeping lioness and two cubs anc} 
the leader was greatly puzzled on being orderec}, 
not to molest the little fellows. Again this same} 
native brought a tiny antelope to camp and w asi 
compelled to liberate it at the place where he} 
found it and to.watch it until its mother re} 
turned to protect it. The rule not to moles) 
females, followed by the ladies, was rigidly fol: 
lowed, though at. times the always hungryj 
natives were short of fresh meat—and fresl} 
meat would spoil in a few hours in the heat of 
Somaliland. } 
Miss Herbert’s narrative is refreshing, and oni} 
lays the book aside with the regret that its page: 
number but 300. Throughout her dry wit anc 
pleasing humor save the story from the fault 0} 
so many books of its kind, which are meri 
diaries of the authors’ hits and misses. 









































































The illustrations are reproductions from photo} 
graphs. The publishers are the John Lane Com 
pany, New York and London. 


