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TRAVELLING UNDER DIFFICULTIES 



NO doubt many of my readers will be astonished to 

 learn that the best method of moving one's goods 

 of all kinds on expeditions into the interior of Africa is 

 by carrier and not by beasts of burden. Experienced 

 travellers have told me that they would not use camels 

 if they could, but preferred the human carrier. 



To appreciate the justice of this view, which I fully 

 share, one must know by experience how simple and 

 much more efficient transportation is by human agency 

 than by beasts of burden, considering the climatic and 

 topographical conditions of tropical East Africa. 



Some of the East African tribes furnish ideal carriers ; 

 they are willing, devoted, like children, to their master, 

 patient and strong, carrying sixty pounds or more, day 

 after day, without a murmur. 



The late Baron Carlo Erlanger and Oscar Neumann 

 have both written about the difficulties of travelling 

 with camels and mules in Somaliland. The camel is 

 the ideal beast of burden for desert plains, with a uni- 

 form dry climate, but is not adapted to countries like 



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