32 THE LAND OF THE LION 
we neared it, over us drew one of those dark, gray lipped 
clouds that here mean a 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 
underclothes, some one said. ‘To get these men dry to 
bed was all important, for we would be out of potio, if we 
delayed, and there was no game just there. It was a 
race against time and storm. ‘The pipers piped up man- 
fully, the sefari came in after a long march at its best pace, 
and I counted fourteen tents and our three big ones, pitched 
perfectly and trenched completely so that they could stand 
any weather, in eight minutes from the time the first bundle 
was thrown down by the first porter marching on the ground. 
That such a feat could be accomplished many will not 
be prepared to believe, but I timed the men watch in 
hand. I shall have other stories to tell of what the native 
can accomplish when he likes his job. 
The headman practically decides, till you get to know 
the men yourself, who needs punishment when (it is to 
be hoped very rarely) punishment has to be meted out. 
Disobedience to definite orders and theft must be punished 
at once. But if the influences of the sefari are good, 
there are scarcely such things as either disobedience or 
theft. In thirteen months of sefari life I was obliged to 
koboko three or four men for disobedience, and had one 
case of theft. 
I cannot for myself see how any one can travel with 
his sefari for even a few weeks and not be interested in 
all these things, and numberless others besides. 
Your next ally in the managing of the sefari, and your 
hourly instructor in the way in which you should go, 1s 
your tentboy. If you have friends in the country, write 
beforehand and beg them to choose for you the man 
you want. He can be found. There are many excellent 
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