CHAPTER XXV 



EQUIPMENT, ARMS, AND PRESERVATION OF 

 SPECIMENS 



We do not think it necessary to go into details of the 

 equipment of a safari for a trip in East or Middle Africa, 

 because so much must depend upon the length of the trip, 

 the locality traversed, and the purposes and individual hab- 

 its and tastes of the party. A short hunting or collecting 

 trip along the line of the Uganda Railway can be man- 

 aged very inexpensively by any fairly competent tyro with- 

 out a guide. A long trip, however, can only be undertaken 

 either by a man who is thoroughly up to his work or who 

 has some good and competent man with him to supply 

 his own shortcomings. Our own recommendation is that 

 the outfitting should be done on the spot, although pro- 

 visions and equipment can readily be obtained in Lon- 

 don also. Messrs. Newland, Tarlton & Co., of Nairobi, 

 attended to our outfit, and were we to repeat the trip we 

 would go to them again. According to American stand- 

 ards, however, especially of the old-time West, the average 

 East African sportsmen's outfit is rather needlessly elab- 

 orate; nevertheless, we question whether a newcomer will 

 know what it is safe to discard. Mr. Stewart Edward 

 White in the appendix to his book gives some good recom- 

 mendations from the standpoint of a hardy man who does 

 not expect luxuries. Mr. White is wrong in some of his 



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