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get your complete outfit, so you need not bring 

 anything with you but a suitcase. They will get 

 your guns, your tents, your food supplies, your 

 mules, your head-man, your cook, your gunbearers, 

 your askaris (native soldiers), your interpreter, 

 your ammunition, and your porters. They will 

 have the whole outfit ready for you by the time you 

 arrive in Nairobi. When you arrive in British East 

 Africa, a-shooting bent, you will hear of Newland 

 and Tarlton so often that you will think they own 

 the country. 



Mr. Newland met us in Mombasa, and through 

 his agents sent all of our London equipment of 

 tents and guns and ammunition and food up to 

 Nairobi. When we arrived in Nairobi he had our 

 porters ready, together with tent boys, gunbearers, 

 and all the other members of our safari^ and in 

 three days we were ready to march. The firm has 

 systematized methods so much that it is simple for 

 them to do what would be matters of endless worry 

 to the stranger. In course of time you pay the 

 price, and in our case it seemed reasonable, when 

 one considers the work and worry involved. Most 

 English sportsmen come out in October and No- 

 vember, after which time the shooting is at its 

 height. Two years ago there were sixty safaris, 

 or shooting expeditions, sent out from Nairobi. 

 When we left, late in September, there were about 

 thirty. 



Each party must have from thirty to a couple of 

 hundred camp attendants, depending upon the 



