Sport and Travel

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a higher figure is probable, but that he could obtain as many as he could pay for is more than likely. Through the good offices of Italy, an agreement has been concluded with the Mullah, but how it will work out it is impossible to prophesy. It must, however, be remembered that the Mullah has not been...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a higher figure is probable, but that he could obtain as many as he could pay for is more than likely. Through the good offices of Italy, an agreement has been concluded with the Mullah, but how it will work out it is impossible to prophesy. It must, however, be remembered that the Mullah has not been smashed, that his stock of rifles has only very slightly diminished, and it is hard to imagine what the Government has really accomplished. To many who know Somali- land?certainly in my opinion?it looks as if Downing Street has, after the expenditure of much blood and treasure, admitted that the despised Mad Mullah is really master of the situation. There is much truth in the remark made to me by one of my Somalis, who said: Our country only poor country; not got gold like South Africa: that's why Government leave it. Prior to the campaigns against the Mullah, the Somali Protectorate at least paid its way and was not a charge on the Imperial Exchequer. Its exports were of a limited variety, consisting chiefly of skins (mostly THH NL'.V i.'i.K PUBLIC LlbHAKY A8TOH, LENOX AND T1LOEN FOUNBATIONS. goat), which I believe were shipped in the majority of cases to America for the manufacture of gloves; and a certain amount of coffee from Harrar. Its imports consisted of rice, ghee, dates, and Americani (a cotton cloth made, as its name suggests, in America). The sport obtainable in the country was an attraction for many sportsmen, who naturally spent considerable sums in the Protectorate. But to return to Zeila: whHe I was there I often went into the police court with Mr. Jones, and occasionally an amusing case occurred. One day a huge Soudanese policeman appeared and applied for leave to beat a drum in his quarters; on being asked his reasons for wishing to dis...