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IN AFRICA 



Most of our equipment, especially the food sup- 

 plies, had been ordered by letter, and these we found 

 to be practically ready. The remaining necessities, 

 guns, ammunition, camera supplies, medical sup- 

 plies, clothes, helmets, and so on, we assembled after 

 two days of prodigious hustling. There was noth- 

 ing then to be done except to hope that all our 



Part of the Equipment. 



mountainous mass of equipment would be safely 

 installed on the steamer for Mombasa. This steam- 

 er, the Adolph Woermann, sailed from Hamburg 

 on the fourteenth of August, was due at Southamp- 

 ton on the eighteenth and at Naples on the thirtieth. 

 To avoid transporting the hundred cases of sup- 

 plies overland to Naples, it was necessary to get 

 them to Southampton on the eighteenth. It was a 



