PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXPEDITION 



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A good pair of binoculars with a strap to hang them around the 

 neck is an important detail of the outfit. 



After supplies and equipment have been selected and ordered 

 there remains only the matter of securing a safari or caravan. This 

 consists of a head man and his head porter, gun bearers, syces or 

 grooms for the riding horses or mules, tent boys or personal servants, 

 cooks and, last but far from least, the porters. These vary in numbers 

 according to the number in the party and the length of the stay in the 

 interior. The Roosevelt party started with more than two hundred. 

 The entire safari is native of course and consists usually of Somalis, 

 Swahilis, Kikuyu, Wakamba, Uganda, Matabele, Masai, etc. Of these 

 the Somalis receive the highest wages, as they are superior in every 

 way to the rest. As gun bearers their bravery in a tight place makes 



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Useful at close quarters 



them invaluable, and as porters they are able to carry greater weights 

 than any of the other tribes. Mr. R. J. Cunninghame, the leader of 

 Mr. Roosevelt's safari, takes exception to the Somalis, however, 

 claiming that punishment is absolutely necessary in handling East 

 African natives. Somalis will not stand beating, and it is difficult 

 to enforce discipline and keep them up to their work without it. The 

 other natives expect beating as part of the day's work and M/ill lie 

 down on order to take their whipping with the heavy sjambok or 

 hippopotamus hide whip common to South and East Africa. 



These preliminaries having been arranged for Mr. Roosevelt, all 

 that was necessary for him to do on arriving at Mombasa was to take 

 the train on the Uganda Railway to Nairobi, pick up his outfit and 

 begin hunting. 



