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he might have turned out very bad," said John L. ; 

 "taken up music or something like that." 



We also told him that some of the American 

 papers were keeping score on the game he had 

 killed, and that whenever the cable reported a new 

 victim the score up to date would be published like 

 a base-ball percentage table. In the last report he 

 was quoted as having killed seven lions, while 

 Kermit had killed ten. This seemed to amuse him 

 very much, although the figures were not strictly 

 accurate. His score was nine and Kermit's eight 

 up to date. He was also amused by the habit the 

 American papers have of calling him "Bwana 

 Tumbo," which means "The Master with the Stom- 

 ach," a title that did not fit him nearly so ap- 

 propriately then as it might have done before he 

 began his active days in the hunting field. He said, 

 so far as he knew, the porters called him "Bwana 

 Mkubwa," which means "Great Master," and is 

 applied to the chief man of a safari, regardless of 

 who or what he is. It is merely a title that is always 

 used to designate the boss. We told him that many 

 natives we had met would invariably refer to him as 

 the Sultana Mkubwa, or Great Sultan, because they 

 had heard that he was a big chief from America. 



He also laughingly quoted the attitude of Wall 

 Street as expressed in the statement that they 

 "hoped every lion would do his duty." 



Later, in speaking generally of the odd expe- 

 riences he had had in Africa, he spoke of one that 

 will surely be regarded as a nature fake when he 



