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determined by the size of the party, are important 
members of the safari. Then there are tent boys, one 
to each member of the party, whose duty is to look af- 
ter the tents and clothing, and to serve their masters 
or mistresses at table. The syces are pony boys, 
whose duties are to look after the horses and equip- 
ment. In addition to those already named come the 
rank and file of porters whose duties are manifold, 
carrying loads on the march, gathering wood under 
the direction of the askaris and the cook, bringing in 
game, beating for lions, setting up the tents under the 
direction of the tent boys, and so forth. 
I do not know of any case where Bill’s character 
was better demonstrated than at the time when I 
was convalescent after the elephant smashed me up. 
I was able to walk about, but had to have someone 
carry a chair along so that I could sit down to rest. 
A little distance away from camp, at the edge of the 
Kenia forest, there was a great swampy place sur- 
rounded on three sides by a high ridge and on the 
fourth side by the forest. One day the natives came 
in and reported that an old bull elephant had come 
out into this swampy place, and they said that he 
would probably stay in there for a week or ten days. 
These old lone bulls come out into one of these feeding 
grounds, where they are not likely to be disturbed by 
their companions, and for 2 time simply loaf around 
and feed and then go away again. We started out 
pne morning to look this one up, and went to the edge 
vf the forest, where the boys showed us his trail. 
We followed it, and found that it was joined by the 
