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west, toward Lake Hannington, and Cuninghame and I 

 north toward the Guaso Nyero. Heller was under the 

 weather, and we left him to spend a few days at Meru 

 boma, and then to take in the elephant skins and other 

 museum specimens to Nairobi. 



As Cuninghame and I were to be nearly four weeks in 



Helping a donkey across the stream 

 From a photograph by Kerm.il Roosevelt 



a country with no food supplies, we took a small donkey 

 safari to carry the extra food for our porters for in these 

 remote places the difficulty of taking in many hundred 

 pounds of salt, as well as skin tents, and the difficulty 

 of bringing out the skeletons and skins of the big animals 

 collected, make such an expedition as ours, undertaken 

 for scientific purposes, far more cumbersome and unwieldy 



