APPENDIX IV 

 THE AMERICAN IN AFRICA 



IN WHICH HE APPEARS AS DIFFERENT FROM 

 THE ENGLISHMAN 



IT IS always interesting to play the other fellow's 

 game his way, and then, in light of experience, 

 to see wherein our way and his way modify each other. 



The above proposition here refers to camping. 

 We do considerable of it in our country, especially 

 in our North and West. After we have been at it 

 for some time, we evolve a method of our own. The 

 basis of that method is to do without; to go light. 

 At first even the best of us will carry too much plun- 

 der, but ten years of philosophy and rainstorms, 

 trails and trials, will bring us to an irreducible mini- 

 mum. A party of three will get along with two 

 pack horses, say; or, on a harder trip, each will 

 carry the necessities on his own back. To take just 

 as little as is consistent with comfort is to play the 

 game skilfully. Any article must pay in use for 

 its transportation. 



With this ideal deeply ingrained by the test of 

 experience, the American camper is appalled by the 



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