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Mackenzie & Co., Mombasa). Give my love to 

 Selous when you see him again. 



" Yours ever, 



" Arthur Neumann. 



" I have fever pretty often (thanks to the Tana), 

 but between whiles am very well, as I am now 

 (though my liver is more self-assertive than is 

 desirable often), and as happy as possible — not 

 the least lonely. 



" P.S. — Glancing through this production, I notice 

 what I say about that pleasant shooting-party 

 at Ward's seems to imply that I did not enjoy it, 

 and reads ungratefully to our kind host and hostess. 

 That is not what I meant to suggest though, at all. 

 I enjoyed myself very much there; and after you 

 and Selous left I still had a most interesting and 

 delightful companion in Abel Chapman, whose 

 acquaintance it gave me the greatest pleasure to 

 make. I only meant that it struck me as being 

 so jolly you and Selous going about together from 

 shoot to shoot. 



" With regard to the Mannlicher, I do think, 

 beautiful weapon as it is, that it is rather in the 

 extreme of small in the bore for general purposes 

 in Africa. In spite of its high velocity it has not 

 great penetrative power, owing to the bullet being 

 so light — ^there is really nothing of it. I have killed 

 all the big beasts with it (bar elephants, and of 

 course it would kill them too), but another time 

 I think I should prefer a double '400. 



" Unless my health should break down I expect 

 to spend two or three years more out here." 



