WINTER CAMP AT CHIROMO. 



CHAPTER II 



ARRIVAL IN AFRICA HUNTING PREPARATIONS- 

 ASSISTANTS MY METHODS 



-MY 



At Chiromo Winter season Arrival of my men Their portraits, their 

 aptitudes, and their devotion Work in the woods Duties of each 

 person Systematic methods of hunting Studies preliminary to night 

 watches. 



THE journey which I was about to attempt com- 

 menced in the region where the previous one ended, 

 namely, at Lake Nyassa. In August 1894 MM. De. 

 Borely and Bertrand, two old African explorers, and 

 myself reached the Zambesi and those banks which 

 were already familiar to me. This time we had with us 

 an enormous quantity of materiel, and a large number 



