11th Arrived Berbera 11am.
12th Man & Arm boats and carried out boat firing. Twelve native chiefs from Lashorar came on board for passage. We weighed & left at 4.45 pm.
13th We arrived and anchored at Hais. Landed Somali troops who were taking passage. We here took on board some native troops & at 1.30 pm we left Hais and proceeded along the coast. We stopped several dhows and searched them, they were pearl fishers. We stopped off Baghala, sent ashore to communicate with Sheik.
14th Left Baghala at 6am, searched several dhows all had satisfactory papers. We had now reached Cape Card De Fue Which is the extreme end of British Somaliland, so we put about. Exercised small arms companies. At 5.30 we arrived and anchored off Lashora for the night.
15th Weighed and proceeded at 5am. At 7.30 we stopped off Bander Laskora & sent an armed boats crew with an interpreter ashore to fetch the Sheiks of the place aboard. Natives very hostile & for half an hour the Sultan refused to come. At last he left his palace & was escorted by hundreds of savage niggers towards our boat. When he arrived on the beach some of the niggers held him back and some wanted him to go. Plenty of blood was shed. Then he made a rush & entered the boat followed by a dozen of his bodyguard. These were ordered out of the boat but refused to go, but the seamen used force & soon a dozen swarthy niggers were struggling in the water & the boats crew pulled off for the ship & took the Sultan on board, & at 9am we proceeded along the coast. At 5pm we anchored off Bander Hasham. We here bought two swift sailing dhows to be manned by a dozen bluejackets each & armed with 3 pounder gun to be used for patrolling the Somaliland coast, to aid in preventing arms being landed on these shores for the Mad Mullah.
16th The dhows were brought ready for service & at 3.15pm the dhows left the ship. No1 dhow under charge of Lieut Bevan and twelve men. No 2 dhow Lieut. Lindsay and ten men and proceeded to carry out their duties. At 4pm ship left for Berbera. Exercised Gen Qtrs & fired C. Tube.
17th Arrived at Berbera. Landed Sultan of Bander Laskoria. Colonel Swayne who is in charge of troops out here came on board ship, saluted. At 2.30 p.m. we left Berbera for Aden.
18th Arrived in Aden 6 a.m.. Divine Sevice held.
19th Coaled ship 255 tons & left at 6 p.m. for Berbera. It being necessary for Colonel Swayne�s troops to pass through Italian territory we took on board a Italian General who we took to Berbera to conduct the troops in his country�s territory. (4p.m. left Aden)
20th Arrived Berbera, 9.20 a.m. Landed Italian General. Left 4 p.m.
21st Exercised General Quarters. We sighted No 2 dhow & we replenished her stores. She reported all well. Several dhows she stopped, all satisfactory. She then tied up astern of ship. At 3.30 two dhows were sighted. One of them proved to be No1 dhow, the other a capture. She had large quantities of ammunition & fifty natives on board. Only enough hands to work her stopped on her, remainder came on board. Replenished No1�s stores and both our dhows then left us for another five days cruise. The prisoners were all stalwart niggers and it is curious they did not show fight. Ships proceed with captured dhow to Berbera.
22nd Small arm Companies were exercised & at 5 pm we anchored off Berbera & landed dhow & prisoners over to military authorities, each one receiving forms of imprisonment. We ran torpedoes during evening.
23rd Seigning party went, good catch of fish
24th Cricket party landed & played. Army Officers winning by 5 wickets.
25th Divine Service
26th Boats crews exercised boat sailing.
27th Landing Parties landed and at 6 p.m. we weighed & proceeded along coast.
28th Arrived at Hais, & found No 2 dhow here. She came alongside and was paid off. Left at 9 a.m. with Sultan of Laskora on board. During afternoon sighted No 1 dhow. She came alongside and was paid off. Kept dhow astern for further use. We arrived at Lasklora & landed Sultan & proceeded back to Hais.
29th Arrived Hais 7 a.m. & left same day for Aden taking dhow with us.
30th Arriving in Aden 5 a.m. dressed ship as P.O. steamer was here with Indian Princess on board going home for Coronation. We then rearmed the dhow & at 7 p.m. we left Aden with the dhow in tow, all lights were extinguished as our destination was left quiet.
31st Dhow left us for cruise off Arabian Coasts. Ship proceeded along coast.
June 1st Sunday. Arrived at Ash Shihr. Searched all dhows in bay, all were pearl fishers. Large town with fortified wall all around it. Buildings built of mud. At 9 a.m. we arrived off Makella, chief port on Arabian coast. Searched all dhows. We then proceeded & sighted large dhow � fired blank round calling on her to stop. As she held on her mast was quickly blew down. She seemed to be a simple trader & seemed to not understand the blank round. Let her go on.
