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advantage; it enables you to return early, and to avoid 

 too much of the midday or early afternoon sun. 



From noon till three o'clock, many will find the heat 

 exhausting and the fagged out man, is not usually the best 

 of company in camp. 



Now one of the things most worth sacrificing something 

 for, when you are camping for months in the same com- 

 pany, and cannot get away from it, or it from you, is a 

 cheerful atmosphere, a life of give and take, a steadfast 

 avoidance of all friction, even of little differences on 

 points unimportant. 



There is very much to try a good temper, in sefari life, 

 much to strain and worry even a placid disposition. If 

 things are to move smoothly for all parties, try to get rid of 

 your ill-humours, when you must have them, in the open. 

 Work them off outside. Do not visit them on your men or 

 your friend. Surely the success of a trip is not to be meas- 

 ured by the trophies taken, only, but, at least as much, by 

 the memory of beautiful things seen and arduous things 

 done, in the pleasant company of others. A witty man 

 I know, as he stood at his country house door, and bade 

 good luck to some of his guests packed for a day's ride in 

 his automobile, said: "I do not think I can give you any 

 better advice than that Joseph gave to his sons, when they 

 were starting for Egypt. "See that ye fall not out by the 

 way." Well, on sefari not to do so means forbearance and 

 allowance made. 



Carry a few good books. When you feel out of sorts, 

 turn to them. There are so many things one wants to know 

 in life, and that one never can get time to learn. And there 

 are so many others that once we knew and remembered, 

 but have in part or in whole forgotten, that it is a demoral- 

 izing waste of time to hang round the camp doing nothing, 

 reading nothing, thinking nothing, often watching noth- 

 ing, no recreation but killing things. Such a life does no 



