To keep the expedition supplied with food a small herd of donkeys traveled between depots in 

 the hills and the lower country. A donkey load is 120 pounds 



An African leopard. — "As matters stand to-day in British East Africa, the big game of the 

 country outside the three preserves is absolutely certain to disappear in about one-fourth the time 

 that it took South Africa to accomplish the same result." 



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