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the earnest- money which they have already received. 

 These " wapagazi " have to be replaced but, if possible, 

 the fugitives should, for discipline's sake, be pursued. At 

 last, however, there emerges from the gross number of 

 recruits a body of servants who are useful and trustworthy 

 in every respect, and who prove themselves equal to the 

 manifold hardships of the expedition. The traveller now 

 comes daily into closer and closer relation with, and soon 

 dominates, a number of men who are devoted to him 

 and obedient to his slightest gesture. It was a matter of 

 much satisfaction to me that I was often able to re-engage 

 a number of my old servants, whom I always found willing 

 and ready to come with me. 



One of the chief difficulties of a zoological collecting- 

 expedition lies in the troublesome task of taxidermy, 

 especially in the case of the larger specimens. Often the 

 entire camp has to spend several days in the preparation 

 of the skins of buffaloes and giraffes, elephants and 

 rhinoceroses. When at last sufficient material has been 

 stored, it has to be packed in loads with the most anxious 

 care, ticketed, and finally after very serious consideration 

 of the probability of a wet spell occurring on the way- 

 sent to the coast. Laden with reserve stores and supple- 

 mentary loads the carriers then return to the velt but 

 often not for weeks and months. 



In all these matters one must go to work with one's 

 own hands. The carriers, even in little secondary matters, 

 need constant control and encouragement. But, granted 

 this, they work of course, with the strictest limitation to 

 their own special duties in the most satisfactory fashion. 



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