Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . feathers on their backs,wings, and breasts colored with different shades of pinkand red. They will remain stationary for some secondsin the air, and then dart down suddenly like a hawkto capture some cricket that may have carelessly comefrom its hole in the daytime. Swarms of natives crowded around us whenever wewent to the villages, never seeming to tire of gazingat the white man ; and frequently there would be groupsof women at work in the cornfields, who would startdancing and singing in the most abandone
Through unknown African countries; the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu . feathers on their backs,wings, and breasts colored with different shades of pinkand red. They will remain stationary for some secondsin the air, and then dart down suddenly like a hawkto capture some cricket that may have carelessly comefrom its hole in the daytime. Swarms of natives crowded around us whenever wewent to the villages, never seeming to tire of gazingat the white man ; and frequently there would be groupsof women at work in the cornfields, who would startdancing and singing in the most abandoned fashionwhenever we passed them. The natives, learning thatI was a physician, came to me so often that I had to A THEFT AND A WARNING. ^33 appoint a regular hour every day in which to hold aclinic. The poor creatures would come from far andnear, with all kinds of nasty ulcers and wounds toattend to. The Ogadens, who had been driven fromthe interior, where it is most healthy, suffered much frommalaria in the Webi valley, many of them possessing thelargest spleens I have ever i J «iSOMALI KNIFE, SPEARHEAD, COMB, AND AMULET. While I was fishing one day at the river, one of thenatives stole a cartridge from my boy Ahamed. Thetheft was discovered at once, but for a time it lookedas thouofh we were oroinc: to have a ficrht to get thecartridge back. My boys caught the thief, who finallyshowed where he had thrown the cartridge, after I hadthreatened him with a flogging; but many of his friends,who were Adones, stood about in a menacing manner,calling at us insolently and threatening to throw theirspears at us. I determined to give the natives a little 134 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. warning after this; so in the evening I sent up two largeship-rockets, which made a great report that echoedamong the hills as they left their brass sockets, and, aftergoing high into the heavens, burst with a stunning boomand shower of lights. The effect was most salutary, crowds of natives
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