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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 
_ inconyeniently 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’! 
_ every night, even if only to keep the men together ; but it is 
Rot really necessary to do so until nearing the outskirts of the 
= ‘Masai country or wherever the natives are of a thievish dis- 
Sepa In the game country a boma is always necessary, not 
_ only for protection and to keep the men together, but to keep 
Pint hyzenas, &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 
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