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were in a hotel. Others, and these are the old and wise residents, 

 content themselves with a reasonable amount of plain, good food. 

 As a rule, the official allows for each white man in his party three 

 chop boxes, representing from 150 to 180 pounds of food, for an 

 expedition lasting three or four weeks. 



On Colonel Roosevelt's safari there is an allowance of fifty 

 native porters and gunbearers for each white man. The natives 



EXPEDITION CROSSING A TEMPORARY BRIDGE. 



carry their own food, too, the allowance being decided according 

 to their tribe. ' 



Swahilis, Bwangandas and Alanayanwezi are paid from $1.50 

 to $3 a month, and are allowed as rations a pound and a half of rice 

 a day. 



The other tribes are allowed a pound and a half of flour 

 instead of rice, and are paid 12 cents a day in local money, repre- 

 senting 4 American cents. The meat-eating tribe of the Mkamba, 

 who file their front teeth down to points so as to be able to tear 



