| 130 | lbs. | rice | |
| 70 | ” | dates | |
| 20 | ” | ghee | |
| add ammunition | 10 | ” | |
| water 7 days | 70 | ” | |
| 300 | lbs. |
Say 1⅟₁₁ camel-loads.
By another calculation similar to those previously employed, we shall find that we would want 64 camels and 32 baggage camelmen.
Thus we have our caravan composed as follows:—
| 1 | European. | |
| 1 | headman. | |
| 1 | personal camelman. | |
| 1 | syce. | |
| 1 | cook. | |
| 1 | butler. | |
| 2 | hunters. | |
| 32 | baggage camelmen. | |
| 3 | temporary jungle servants. | |
| Total | 42 | Somális, 1 European. |
| 2 | Arab trotting camels. | |
| 1 | pony for European. | |
| 64 | baggage camels. | |
| 6 | spare camels. |
In my last trip to the Webbe, occupying three months, I had 55 camels and 30 men. The trip cost me about £300 altogether.
The expenses can be calculated on the lines of Example I. There will, however, be certain modifications.
Somális have a prejudice against going to the Webbe. They have great fear of fever and mosquitoes; and they have a great dread of Gállaland. They will, therefore, expect higher pay to go to these countries. On my last trip my ordinary camelmen, who would take 15 rupees per month for trips in Guban, Ogo, Haud, and Ogádén, would take nothing less than 18 rupees throughout the journey if we reached the Webbe, and 20 rupees if we reached the Gálla tribes. Circumstances have combined to place all Somáli wages at a very high figure. The pay of an Indian body servant is in India about 10 rupees per month, but if taken to Aden, the same man requires double pay, or 20 rupees per month. The Somáli, who is trained to domestic service in Aden, naturally says he will not take less than the Indian who does the same work. The Somáli at Berbera requires the same wages which he has been accustomed to get at Aden, and similar causes, together with intense laziness, independence, and avarice combined, tend to raise the price of labour in Somáliland.
If Somális are really starving, they have only to make their way somehow to the karias of their own tribe, and they will be kept in board and lodging, for up country every fighting man is worth his keep.