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Returned to camp and we had a serious talk over our 

 situation. Our transport is seriously crippled. So 

 many donkeys have died that we are now quite unable 

 to move forward except by relaying. This condition 

 is going to get worse instead of better, unless we are 

 willing to abandon a portion of our valuable equipment 

 or some of our trophies; neither of which we want to do. 

 Each defunct donkey leaves behind him not only the 

 two loads he has been carrying, but also his saddle, 

 pack-sacks, and two sheepskins that have been in use 

 as his saddle blankets. The Wasonzi told us that at 

 the old slave-trading post of Ikoma, now a German 

 government post, some distance to the south, we 

 could buy any amount of donkeys. They said that 

 there are Indian trading stores also. 



After discussing the situation thoroughly it was 

 agreed that Cuninghame should take a very smaU 

 safari and strike directly south until he cut the track 

 from Arusha to Ikoma. At Ikoma he was to mail 

 letters; get information as to lake transportation, 

 elephants, buffalo, etc; copy or procure whatever maps 

 the officials might have; get some potio; and buy some 

 necessaries and a few luxuries to celebrate on, a list of 

 which we promptly made out. In the meantime I was 

 to proceed slowly in a generally northwesterly di- 

 rection, searching out routes and water. When, in 

 the course of time, I found likely game fields or other 

 items of interest, I was to camp. At the present camp 



