THE STORY OF AN OUTING 



The cost of reaching British East Africa depends 

 largely upon the line of travel selected. If you take the 

 North Atlantic route and go by rail across Europe to 

 Marseilles or Naples, if you -take a cabine de luxe instead 

 of less expensive quarters, if you are entertained by and 

 entertain your friends en route, the expense will be 

 larger in proportion. Two hundred dollars will, how- 

 ever, buy a ticket, with a good room, from Marseilles or 

 Naples to Mombasa, and fifteen dollars will take you 

 by rail on to Nairobi. The cheaper route would be by 

 steamer from New York to Naples. 



The expense of my hunt from my arrival in Nairobi 

 until my departure for home was slightly under two 

 thousand dollars, lessened, undoubtedly, because of the 

 fact that I had a partner. License, not including 

 elephant, accounted for two hundred and fifty dollars, 

 loss on horses (my share) about two hundred and fifty 

 dollars. If you are young and strong and time is no object, 

 you can do your hunting and trekking on foot. If your 

 time is valuable and you wish to avail yourself of every 

 chance to get game ( I could not have got my lion 

 unmounted), then horses are desirable and an economic 

 investment. They come high, considering the quality, 

 and you must buy and transport by porters grain for 

 their sustenance. We lost two from tsetse- flies, and 

 the remaining two seemed fly-struck, which is always 

 fatal. 



If you have a large safari some one who can speak the 

 native language is indispensable to handle it; an experi- 

 enced man will save money and trouble, especially in 

 view of the labor complications now obtaining. My 

 share of the amount paid our two guides was five hundred 



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