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As to the cost of a trip of three or more months in 

 the field I should say that about one thousand dol- 

 lars a month would amply cover the total expenses 

 from New York back to New York. This amount 

 would include passage money, guns, ammunition, 

 landing charges, commissions, camera expenses on 

 a reasonable scale, tents, customs in fact all the in- 

 cidental items which are not customarily included 

 in the estimate given by the Nairobi outfitters. 

 These firms, chief of which are the Newland, Tarl- 

 ton and Company, Limited, which directed Colonel 

 Roosevelt's safari, and the Boma Trading Com- 

 pany, which directed the Duke of Connaught's 

 hunt, agree to outfit a party at a cost of about five- 

 hundred dollars a month for each white man. For 

 this amount they furnish everything except your 

 ammunition, clothes, medicines, camera supplies, 

 export and import duties, mounting of trophies, 

 passage money to and from Africa, and such items. 

 To particularize, they agree to supply for this 

 amount, a complete outfit of tents, foods, porters, 

 camp attendants, gunbearers, horses, mules or ox 

 teams, as may be required, and a native head-man 

 or overseer. 



One who wished to do so could telegraph ahead 

 to have one of the Nairobi outfitting firms pre- 

 pare a one, tw r o or three months' hunt, or safari, 

 and then, with only a suit-case he could arrive, 

 with the certainty that everything would be in 

 readiness. There would be no worry or concern 

 about any feature of that part of the work. He 



