This is often difficult to secure when far from sources of supplies, and in consequence the equilibrium of camp harmony is sorely disturbed.
They are avaricious and money loving to a deplorable degree, but there is one thing that can be said for the Somali.

He will never desert in time of danger and will cheerfully sacrifice himself for his master.

He has the stamina of a higher type of civilization, and in comparison to him the lately reclaimed savage is not nearly so dependable in a crisis.
I sometimes suspected that Hassan was not really a gunbearer, but was merely a "camel man" who was tempted from his flocks by the high pay that African gunbearers receive.

Notwithstanding this, he was courageous, faithful, willing, honest, good at skinning, and personally an agreeable companion during the months that we were together.

I got to like him and often during our rests after long hours afield we would talk of our travels and adventures.
[Photograph: Jumma, the Tent Boy] [Photograph: Abdullah, the Cook] One day we stopped at the edge of the Molo River.