CH. i] OUR FELLOW-PASSEXGERS 5 



Eno^lishnien, whether dashing army officers or capable 

 civihaiis. They reminded me of our own men who liave 

 reflected such honour on the American name, whether in 

 civil and military positions in the Philippines and Porto 

 Rico, working on the Canal Zone in Panama, taking 

 care of the custom-houses in San Domingo, or serving 

 in the army of occupation in Cuba. Moreover, 1 felt 

 as if I knew most of them already, for they might 

 have walked out of the pages of Kipling. But I was 

 not as well prepared for the corresponding and equally 

 interesting types among the Germans, the planters, the 

 civil officials, the officers who had commanded, or were 

 about to command, w^hite or native troops — men of 

 evident power and energy, seeing whom made it easy 

 to understand why German East Africa has thriven 

 apace. They are first-class men, these English and 

 Germans ; both are doing in East Africa a work of 

 worth to the whole world ; there is ample room for both, 

 and no possible cause for any but a thoroughly friendly 

 rivalry ; and it is earnestly to be wished, in the interest 

 both of them and of outsiders too, that their relations 

 will grow, as they ought to grow, steadily better — and 

 not only in East Africa, but everywhere else. 



On the ship at Naples we found Selous, also bound 

 for East Africa on a hunting trip ; but he, a veteran 

 whose first hunting in Africa was nearly forty years 

 ago, cared only for exceptional trophies of a very few 

 animals, while we, on the other hand, desired specimens 

 of both sexes of all the species of big game that Kermit 

 and I could shoot, as well as complete series of all the 

 smaller mammals. We believed that our best work of 

 a purely scientific character would be done with the 

 mannnals, both large and small. 



No other hunter alive has had the experience of 



