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six hundred dollars a month and all the hunting in 

 British East Africa if Mr. Eastman would henceforth 

 direct the cuisine of his safaris. 



**ril accept if Mrs. Johnson will join up with 

 me," laughed the latter. But I demurred at this 

 point, declaring that I could not afford to lose Osa, 

 my own commissary officer. So the scheme fell 

 through. 



On May 29th we left the Eastman party to go on to 

 Lake Paradise and prepare for its arrival. We had 

 been away for six weeks and wanted to be sure things 

 were in order for our guests. We had a special house 

 built for the occupancy of Mr. Eastman; and had the 

 blacks put their own part of our little "village" in 

 apple-pie order. 



As usual, there were some adventures for the new- 

 comers which Osa and I did not have to stage. On 

 Jime 6th we visited a place called Karo where the 

 only water had to be dug out of the dry bed of a 

 river. There I had a blind from which I hoped to 

 give Mr. Eastman a look at some animals as we often 

 saw them, imdisturbed by any knowledge of the 

 proximity of man. But we had no luck. 



The next day I thought I'd try another spot. On 

 the way there we came up with an old rhino grazing 

 alone quite unconscious that we were in the neighbor- 

 hood. Mr. Eastman nervily got within twenty yards 

 of the beast, taking pictures as he went. But a 



