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SEEKING ROMANTIC ADVENTURES. 



the first few days' marching to pitch the tents the moment the safari 

 comes in. So many at once for the wood. So many fetch water. 

 One has to trench each tent. There are from ten to twenty other 

 tents to be pitched. 



The men whose duty it is to do this are all told off, and let me 

 say here that no one can, I believe, pitch a tent so fast or so well as 



TRAINING BOYS FOR HARDSHIPS. 



these people can. Smartness at the job is of vital importance. For 

 instance, we had to reach a certain water spring, and as we did so, 

 over us drew one of those dark, gray-lipped clouds that here mean 

 torrent. 



Many of the men were sick and suffering from the severe cold 

 and rain; for a month African fountains had not been sunny, 

 and in the evening and at night you needed a suit of fur-lined under- 



