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requirements, some men being more luxurious than others. 

 Roughly speaking a caravan of fifty porters, five askaris, and a 

 headman will cost 657. a month, and this will include cost of 

 trade-goods to buy food. It does not, however, include inter- 

 preters, cook, tent-boy, or gun- bearers, whose wages vary 

 according to their qualifications ; neither does it include arms 

 and ammunition for the men. Interpreters receive the same 

 food allowance (' posho ') as head-men ; cooks and tent-boys the 

 same as askaris. If two or more sportsmen go out together, 

 their individual expenses would be a little less than if they had 

 gone alone. There are very few places, however, where four 

 men can comfortably shoot from the same camp without 

 interfering with each other's sport, although it can be managed 

 by three. If a party is made up of four guns, I should recom- 

 mend them to divide, on arriving at their head-quarters, and 

 shoot in different localities from two camps. 



