CHAPTER XXII 



WAYS AND MEANS. WHAT TO TAKE AND WHAT NOT 



TO TAKE. INFORMATION FOR THOSE THAT 



WISH, INTEND OR HOPE TO HUNT IN 



THE AFRICAN HIGHLANDS 



WHEN one returns to America after some time in 

 the African game country, he is assailed by many 

 questions from others who wish, intend, or hope to 

 make a similar trip. Almost without variation the 

 questioner will ask about the cost, about the danger 

 from fever and sickness, about snakes and insects, 

 about the tempers of the tribes one encounters, and 

 then, if he be a specialist, he will ask about the rifles 

 and the camp equipment. As these familiar and 

 oft repeated inquiries have been made by friends 

 who had read my African letters, I must assume 

 that the features of an African hunting trip, about 

 which people are most curious, were very imper- 

 fectly answered in the preceding chapters. Hence, 

 this supplementary chapter, dealing briefly with the 

 ways and means of such a trip, is added for the en- 

 lightenment of such readers as may be planning a 

 journey into those fascinating regions of Africa 

 where I have so recently been. 



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