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one of their field men, to make a pictorial chronicle of the trip and the 

 work of the expedition. 



The United States Marine Corps supplied the expedition with 

 cots, blankets, and certain other equipment, and the Freedmen's Hos- 

 pital, of Washington, through the Chief Coordinator's Office, fur- 

 nished the medicines. 



At Tanga, the first port of call in Tanganyika. Mr. Fair, Assistant 

 Chief of the Game Department of Tanganyika, joined the boat, and 

 on the voyage between there and Dar-es-Salaam arranged a special 

 permit for collecting, which was afterward signed by the Governor 

 of the territory. There is in Tanganyika a well-organized department 

 for the conservation of game. There is a chief, C. T. M. Swynnerton, 

 and an assistant chief, several white rangers, and a considerable corps 

 of native guards or scouts. The latter are much in evidence, and even 

 in the remote parts of the territory would come into our camp, ask to 

 see our license, take its number and our names, and find out from 

 the natives with us just what we were doing. The very generous 

 license that the Governor gave us proved invaluable, as it gave per- 

 mission to capture specimens of practically all of the game in Tan- 

 ganyika and, when necessary, to kill females in order to capture the 

 young. This is not often necessary, and on the entire trip we did not 

 take a single animal by the killing of the mother. 



Headquarters were made at Dodoma, about 250 miles inland from 

 the coast. The country about there is hot and dry, rolling and 

 dotted with rocky kopjes, and reminds one strongly of parts of 

 southern Arizona. The natives belong to the Wagogo tribe, an off- 

 shoot from the Masai, and are a pastoral and agricultural people, 

 living on their flocks and herds and on the small amount of Kafir- 

 corn that they cultivate. Not being a hunting tribe, they brought 

 in to us very few large specimens but were very useful in collecting 

 small things. Weaver birds do a vast amount of damage to the 

 crops and the natives are in the habit of trapping these birds in 

 quantities in small woven basket traps. So instead of destroying 

 the birds, they brought them in to us, as well as anything else they 

 happened on, and in this way were obtained a ratel, a fennec, a 

 number of vervet monkeys, and a few reptiles. Mr. Loveridge and 

 Mr. Haweis stayed at Dodoma a good part of the time, but made 

 short trips out, and afterwards Mr. Haweis came down to Morogoro 

 and stayed a month at Mhonde, 60 miles from Morogoro. In this 

 locality we secured five blue monkeys, three golden baboons, and a 

 pair of elephant shrews. 



