Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip

The narrative recounts two women organizing and executing a large shooting expedition in Somaliland, with detailed preparations, purchase of camels and ponies, hiring of servants, and dealings with local men. It alternates travel description across desert and scrub with vivid camp episodes: benighted nights, logistical mishaps, and hunting encounters with large mammals such as lions, rhinoceros and oryx. Practical concerns about caravan management, provisions and equipment are interwoven with observations of landscape and local customs, and the account traces the hardships, losses and successes that mark the progress and eventual conclusion of the journey.