THE STORY OF AN OUTING 



increasfid-expense. The safarijippea\s_to the roaming 

 propensity of the negro and his gregarious nature and 

 love for gorging himself upon the jrame that_alls to the 

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"TKe" safari is prominent among the industries and is one 

 of the principal means of obtaining revenue from other 

 countries. A brief description of ours may be of interest. 

 It a>nsisteji-Qjone hundredjmd twenty men, recruited 

 from the following tribes, if tribes is the proper word 

 with which to characterize the various natives, who, 

 under respective local government of their own, occupy 

 this country: Swahili, Wakamba, Kavirondo, Unum- 

 wazi, Wa'Kikuyu, Wa'Emba, Baganda, Wa'Mera, Nan- 

 di, Masai. 



The Swahili occupy the coast and are the most ad- 

 vanced and most important of all from a civilized stand- 

 point. Their superiority is due to the large admixture 

 of Arabian and Indian blood. This blood shows itself 

 in the bearded faces of the men, as well as in the fore- 

 sight and forethought and business capacity which they 

 evidence. 



The moderate advance over their four-footed neigh- 

 bors which the natives enjoy was manifested in many 

 ways. Some of our gun-bearers would just as quickly 

 undertake to stalk game down-wind as up-wipd; it 

 never occurred to them to determine that all-important 

 question before beginning a stalk. They have no judg- 

 ] ment of distance, in fact there is nothing in the regular 

 ^course of their lives to educate them in that respect. 

 / An eland is the largest of African cervidae, and fur- 

 /nishes very choice meat; a good bull will weigh one 

 r thousand or twelve hundred pounds. When the throat 



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