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go farther afield. Each sportsman will then need thirty 
porters, one headman, two askari (native soldiers), one 
cook, one tentboy, and one or two gun bearers. 
These your agents will provide. Your expenses will 
run from $350 to $500 a month. This will not include 
your own food, which should be brought boxed from the 
Army and Navy Stores in London. It will not, of course, 
include your battery or ammunition, nor yet the cost of a 
professional hunter —if you engage one. It will not in- 
clude your railroad fares or passage out or home. 
Your licence will cost you $250. Customs dues on 
entering the country are Io per cent. on what you bring in. 
If you elect to ride a mule or pony this cost will be extra. 
But the shorter your stay is to be, the more advisable is it 
for you to “do yourself well,” and not to go in for too hard 
walking. On the march I strongly advise your riding. 
If two friends are together, $500 a month ought to cover 
everything. 
In olden days of sefari travelling, when ivory or game 
were sought, the process of collecting a sefari on the East 
Coast was simplicity itself. Zanzibar was usually the 
starting point, and the Zanzibar authorities were the inter- 
mediaries between the white men and the unfortunate 
natives. These were compelled to go on any journey, 
with any adventurer their masters gave them orders to 
accompany. Some little part of wages due to them, they 
might or might not receive. They were mere slaves, and 
had no choice in the matter. They were landed on the 
mainland, men, women, and children, at so much the 
head, and started with their loads into the dangerous 
unknown. If they fell down by the way they were kobokoed * 
till they rose again. If they could not rise, they were left 
where they lay. If they deserted, they were shot by their 
* Koboko— the hippo or rhino whip of the country. It is about three feet long, made from 
one strip of raw hide. 
