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advantage; it enables you to return early, and to avoid 
too much of the midday or early afternoon sun. 
From noon till three o’clock, many will find the heat 
exhausting and the fagged out man, is not usually the best 
of company in camp. 
Now one of the things most worth sacrificing something 
for, when you are camping for months in the same com- 
pany, and cannot get away from it, or it from you, is a 
cheerful atmosphere, a life of give and take, a steadfast 
avoidance of all friction, even of little differences on 
points unimportant. 
There is very much to try a good temper, in sefari life, 
much to strain and worry even a placid disposition. If 
things are to move smoothly for all parties, try to get rid of 
your ill-humours, when you must have them, in the open. 
Work them off outside. Do not visit them on your men or 
your friend. Surely the success of a trip is not to be meas- 
ured by the trophies taken, only, but, at least as much, by 
the memory of beautiful things seen and arduous things 
done, in the pleasant company of others. A witty man 
I know, as he stood at his country house door, and bade 
good luck to some of his guests packed for a day’s ride in 
his automobile, said: “I do not think I can give you any 
better advice than that Joseph gave to his sons, when they 
were starting for Egypt. ‘‘See that ye fall not out by the 
way.” Well, on sefari not to do so means forbearance and 
allowance made. 
Carry a few good books. When you feel out of sorts, 
turn tothem. ‘There are so many things one wants to know 
in life, and that one never can get time to learn. And there 
are so many others that once we knew and remembered, 
but have in part or in whole forgotten, that it is a demoral- 
izing waste of time to hang round the camp doing nothing, 
reading nothing, thinking nothing, often watching noth- 
ing, no recreation but killing things. Such a life does no 
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