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Permits to bring native servants and porters into German 

 territory must be applied for in advance. Otherwise you 

 will not be able to take them out again. 



Maps: Besides the one in this book, send for the Ikonia 

 section published in Berhn. Do not depend on it too im- 

 phcitly — especially for water.* 



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OUTFIT 



Riding animals are impossible in this country owing to 

 the prevalence of the tsetse fly. Hammocks are equally im- 

 possible because of the necessity of reducing the number of 

 your men — a hammock, counting relays, takes sixteen men. 

 Therefore the whole journey must be done afoot. Since the 

 potio must at present be arranged for as outUned in Appen- 

 dix I, it follows that a large and unwieldy safari is practi- 

 cally impossible. As stated, forty men is the ideal number. 

 These can comfortably care for two white men who are 

 willing to get down to absolute (African) essentials. Each 

 must solve for himself the problem of what he shall take; 

 but in our own case, the loads worked out as follows: 



Two tent loads, two bed loads (includes chairs), three 

 tin boxes, one cook box (contains both utensils and food), 

 one ammunition box, eight chop boxes (food, repair- 

 materials, alum, trade goods, etc.), one miscellaneous load, 

 four boys' loads; a total of twenty-two loads. The chop 

 boxes gradually diminished in number ; the others remained 



*The war may change the status on one side or the other of the line, but 

 on reflection I have retained this as it was written. Conditions of subsis- 

 tence will not be changed; and new regulations are easy to find out about. 



