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moving tout de suite or remaining as his guests for 

 three months or more. 



This would not have been a hardship if the dinner 

 he tendered us that night were a criterion. It was a 

 regular banquet, with champagne and several other 

 kinds of wine. We marveled at the ability of these 

 Frenchmen to have such excellent food in these out-of- 

 the-way places, and I doubt if any member of my 

 party will ever forget this dinnner, or how very kind 

 the Governor and his aides were to us at Fort Lamy. 



I might add that we all attended this banquet in 

 our safari outfits, I being the worst tramp of the lot, 

 for most of my clothes were in Nairobi and my safari 

 kit had been reduced to practically nothing. What 

 I wore was sadly in need of washing, but we had been 

 moving so fast lately — or rather had been putting in 

 so much of our time trying to move, that there had 

 been no opportunity to have washing done, and, 

 strange to say, I had not seen a barber shop for over 

 three thousand miles! 



Next day, as a guest of the Governor, I was driven 

 to all the interesting places in and around Fort Lamy. 

 This district would hardly appeal to tourists, nor will 

 it ever become a popular summer resort, for this was 

 the beginning of the cool season, with the thermometer 

 indicating ninety-six degrees Fahrenheit. In May, 

 before the rains lowered the temperature from one 

 hundred thirty degrees or more, the Governor said 

 that woodwork exposed to the sun felt like red- 

 hot iron. 



The town is divided into three sections, one part 

 being the Arab quarters, one the Negro location, while 

 the white officials and traders hve grouped along the 



