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Agnes Herbert. Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip
Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip
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TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND
CHAPTER I—WE SET OUT FOR SOMALILAND
CHAPTER II—IN BERBERA
CHAPTER III—THE STARTING OF THE GREAT TREK
CHAPTER IV—WE MEET KING LEO
CHAPTER V—MORE LIONS
CHAPTER VI—BENIGHTED IN THE JUNGLE
CHAPTER VII—ANOTHER UNCOMFORTABLE NIGHT
CHAPTER VIII—A BATTLE ROYAL
CHAPTER IX—DEATH OF “THE BARON”
CHAPTER X—WE MEET “THE OPPOSITION”
CHAPTER XI—AN OASIS IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER XII—OUR BUTLER LEVANTS
CHAPTER XIII—WE CROSS THE MAREHAN
CHAPTER XIV—WE REACH A REAL LAKE
CHAPTER XV—ANOTHER GAP IN OUR RANKS
CHAPTER XVI—CECILY SHOOTS A RHINOCEROS
CHAPTER XVII—TREE CLIMBING
CHAPTER XVIII—A JOUST WITH A BULL ORYX
CHAPTER XIX—IN THE GOLIS
CHAPTER XX—THE LAST PHASE
CHAPTER XX—END OF THE GREAT SHIKAR
THE END
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Agnes Herbert
Published by Good Press, 2021
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She talked a great deal about “the haven of a good man’s love.” One might sail the seas a long time, I think, before one made such a port. Meanwhile the good lady’s own haven, the elderly shikari, was flirting with the big drum of the celebrated ladies’ orchestra at the Aden tea-house.
“All human beans,” for this is what our friend got the word to, as she was right in the forefront of the g-dropping craze, “should marry. It is too lonely to live by oneself.”
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