* I lost ilc Forces 



to arrive at their destination on the very day appointed, 

 even alter journeys of weeks and months. 



Of course, my kind of expedition was a different 

 matter. \Ve went into unknown and uninhabited parts 

 of the velt. My most difficult problem was that of" our 

 food-supply. Resides his sixty-pound load, his cookin<_(- 

 utensils, and his lew personal possessions, a man cannot 

 carry more vegetable food than will last for a fortnight 

 or three weeks. In practice he will !_n:nerally have none 

 of it left after twelve or fourteen days. Therefore; all 

 the arrangements lor the journey must be made in such 

 a way that food is always obtainable. Water must, of 

 course, be come upon daily, or at least every forty - 

 eij^'ht hours; tor the earners capability for work depends 

 very much on the temperature, and in hot weather a 

 man cannot carry his load farther than a day's journev 

 without water. 



In the <4"ood old times people went, according to 

 report, rio'ln through the desert depending solely upon 

 the j^ame they killed lor tood. I he servants, camp once 

 reached, swarmed in all directions through the desert in 

 pursuit of antelopes and other j^ame. Bui though I, too, 

 L^'ive my servants a certain quantity of meat, I nevertheless 

 most sternly insisted that every man should daily receive 

 a corresponding (]iiantity ol vegetable tood. I his often 

 with the greatest ditt'iculty and expense I somehow 

 always managed to accomplish. I nfortunately it is not 

 always done by caravan-leaders; but instead, tile ^ame is 

 shot down m the most irresponsible tashion. . . . 



In the famine year of" iSoo 1900 this method ot mine 



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