With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



from the effects of perspiration. So I was obliged 

 frequently to manage without them. Fortunately, my 

 eyesight is very nearly equal to that of the natives. 



Water for my own use I have for years been accus- 

 tomed to carry with me, in bags of double linen ; and 

 this method I can most confidently recommend. If it 

 is at all possible, I have the water boiled ; but of course 

 I have often been obliged to put up with the contents 

 of some muddy marsh-pool. 



Neither I nor my taxidermist have ever brought 

 with us or tasted any spirituous drinks of any kind what- 

 ever, except in small quantities for cases of sickness : 

 and with the profoundest conviction I can recommend 

 this abstinence, which unfortunately is practised only by 

 a very few. Even the little that I have had with me 

 has generally been given away to others in cases ot sick- 

 ness. It is certainly because of this abstinence that I 

 have survived some bad weeks, when wine had a magical 

 effect upon me, owing to my being unused to it, and 

 was, in conjunction with incredible doses of strophanthus 

 and digitalis, the only thing that could possibly have 

 saved my lite. 



The round disc of the sun has risen in the vaporous 

 distance ; brief, as always in the tropics, but gloriously 

 beautiful, is the spectacle of sunrise. Sharply outlined 

 against the horizon there lies before us, open and cloud- 

 less, the mighty mountain-tract of Kilimanjaro At its 

 feet there are already gathering single small clouds, 

 then clouds in thicker masses ; soon a sea ot vapour 



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