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what man cannot first create." After which he 

 giggled again, and fled. 



His conscience, evidently, had driven him to this 

 defiance of our high and mightinesses against his 

 sense of politeness and his fears. 



About this time my boy Mohamet and the cook 

 drifted in. They reported that they had left the 

 safari not far back. Our hopes of supper and 

 blankets rose. They declined, however, with the 

 gathering darkness, and were replaced by wrath 

 against the faithless ones. Memba Sasa, in spite 

 of his long day, took a gun and disappeared in the 

 darkness. He did not get back until nine o'clock, 

 when he suddenly appeared in the doorway to lean 

 the gun in the corner, and to announce, ^^Hapana 

 safari.''^ 



We stretched ourselves on a bench and a table — 

 the floor was impossible — and took what sleep we 

 could. In the small hours the train thundered 

 through, the train we had hoped to catch! 



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