200 SAFARI 



But delivery out in the blue is something more of a 

 problem than it is in civilization. 



One thing in particular surprised me on our last 

 expedition: though many months had elapsed since 

 my photographic materials had been packed in 

 America and we had had a bad rainy season, these 

 did not seem to have deteriorated. And all my 

 electric equipment, too, was in good shape. The 

 engines started off smoothly with the first turn of the 

 fly wheel; the electro-light fluid was right on the 

 first testing; and we had lights in the laboratory 

 soon after the building was flnished. 



My laboratory at Paradise was my chief delight. 

 The walls were high, the entire inside was covered 

 with white canvas, while the canvas on the dark 

 room walls was painted a dark red. Here there were 

 also little red bulbs, developing tanks fed by six 

 inlets of hose running through the logs ; and the floor 

 was as smooth as any parquet, for I had had the boys 

 rub the covers of the boxes I used with sand for three 

 days. 



My all-important water came from a well dug near 

 the edge of the lake about 30 feet down, and located 

 three hundred yards from my laboratory. Four 

 mules worked from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. bringing the 

 water up. Each mule had a pack saddle that held 

 one "barrimal" on each side. A barrimal was 

 eight gallons. Thus each mule brought up 1 6 gallons 



