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their thirst and fill up their water calabashes before starting, 

 and then march steadily on throughout the day, with a short 

 rest every two hours to enable the stragglers to come up ; they 

 can sleep anywhere in the wilderness, and early next day arrive 

 at the water before the sun becomes very powerful. Then, 

 again, there is what is called a ' terageza,' which is a double 

 march one inconveniently short, say four miles, and the other 

 inconveniently long, say sixteen to eighteen miles. This can be 

 negotiated very much in the same manner as the above, but 

 with this difference : Instead of beginning the day with a feed, 

 which an African, as a rule, does not care to do, the men wait 

 until they arrive at the water, at the end of the first short 

 march, before cooking their food, and then go on and sleep in 

 the wilderness without water, except what each man carries for 

 himself. 



The length of a march depends very much, if not 

 entirely, on the distance between the places where water is 

 procurable. As a rule, the water excepting, of course, the 

 running streams is not good, and should be carefully filtered 

 and boiled before being used, and it should be the special 

 duty of one of the tent-boys to see that this is done. Before 

 being filtered the water should be cleared of all extraneous 

 matter by the use of alum. This can best be done by getting 

 a bucket of water and stirring it round a few times with a lump 

 of alum in the hand, which will soon precipitate all vegetable 

 and mineral matter. 



When on the march, it is a good plan to make a ' boma ' l 

 every night, even if only to keep the men together ; but it is 

 not really necessary to do so until nearing the outskirts of the 

 Masai country or wherever the natives are of a thievish dis- 

 position. In the game country a boma is always necessary, not 

 only for protection and to keep the men together, but to keep 

 out hyaenas, &c., which might carry off or destroy a valuable 

 trophy, if they did nothing worse. 



The tent should be pitched in the shade, more particularly 

 1 Zereba. 



