JOURNAL
OF
ADVENTURES IN SOMALI LAND.
C H A P T E R I.
INTRODUCTION TO THE JOURNAL.
PROJECTS AND HOBBIES— LIFE IN INDIA— LORD CLYDE AND SIR
JAMES OUTRAM—-THE POSITION AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
OF THE SOMALI COUNTRY — THE NOGAL COUNTRY, AND
HISTORICAL SKETCHES— COSTUME AND CUSTOMS.
It was in the year 1849, at the expiration of the
Punjanb campaign, under Lord Gough, where I had
been actively engaged as a subaltern officer in the (so-
called) fighting brigade of General Sir Colin Campbell's
division of the army, adding my mite to the four
successive victorious actions-.—Ramnugger, Sadoola-
pore, Chillianwallah, and Guzerat—that I first conceived
the idea of exploring Central Equatorial Africa.
My plan was made with a view to strike the Nile
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