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N.B. — (1) By sleeping head downwards in the sleeping- 

 bag it is sometimes possible to avoid taking a mosquito- 

 net. (2) Confirmed alcoholists need not burden themselves 

 with a pocket filter. 



Next to the medicine-chest (to which I shall 

 refer presently) the beads and wire are perhaps 

 the most important items of the whole outfit, 

 and deserve a word or two of special mention. 



A great deal of the success of an expedition 

 depends upon the willingness of the native 

 guides, porters, gun-bearers, and other camp- 

 followers to enter into the spirit of the game, 

 and afford the hunter their loyal and ungrudg- 

 ing support. It is therefore prudent to keep 

 on good terms with one's native employees, 

 and for this purpose a supply of beads and wire 

 is invaluable. 



The normal pay of pagazi (or porters) in 

 Africa is from one to one-and-a-half blue beads 

 per month; if, however, they have been espe- 

 cially energetic in the construction of a boma 

 (or zareba), or have built a particularly strong 

 zareha (or boma), they may safely be rewarded 

 by the gift of an additional bead or two of 

 some other less expensive colour. 



Beads should be paid regularly on quarter- 

 day, and a stamped acknowledgment demanded; 

 if a native refuses to produce this receipt, his 

 blue bead should be taken away, he should be 



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