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go farther afield. Each sportsman will then need thirty 

 porters, one headman, two askari (native soldiers), one 

 cook, one tentboy, and one or two gun bearers. 



These your agents will provide. Your expenses will 

 run from $350 to $500 a month. This will not include 

 your own food, which should be brought boxed from the 

 Army and Navy Stores in London. It will not, of course, 

 include your battery or ammunition, nor yet the cost of a 

 professional hunter if you engage one. It will not in- 

 clude your railroad fares or passage out or home. 



Your licence will cost you $250. Customs dues on 

 entering the country are 10 per cent, on what you bring in. 

 If you elect to ride a mule or pony this cost will be extra. 

 But the shorter your stay is to be, the more advisable is it 

 for you to "do yourself well," and not to go in for too hard 

 walking. On the march I strongly advise your riding. 



If two friends are together, $500 a month ought to cover 

 everything. 



In olden days of sefari travelling, when ivory or game 

 were sought, the process of collecting a sefari on the East 

 Coast was simplicity itself. Zanzibar was usually the 

 starting point, and the Zanzibar authorities were the inter- 

 mediaries between the white men and the unfortunate 

 natives. These were compelled to go on any journey, 

 with any adventurer their masters gave them orders to 

 accompany. Some little part of wages due to them, they 

 might or might not receive. They were mere slaves, and 

 had no choice in the matter. They were landed on the 

 mainland, men, women, and children, at so much the 

 head, and started with their loads into the dangerous 

 unknown. If they fell down by the way they were kobokoed * 

 till they rose again. If they could not rise, they were left 

 where they lay. If they deserted, they were shot by their 



* Koboko the hippo or rhino whip of the country. It is about three feet long, made from 

 one strip of raw hide. 



