An African Shooting Trip 



while they were being brought through the 

 surf, as the loss of any of these would have 

 been irreparable. Notwithstanding the fact 

 that the coast abounds in sharks, the natives 

 give no thought to them. They are admir- 

 able swimmers, and the water about the 

 dhows swarmed with black heads, all eager to 

 earn a little silver by carrying things ashore. 



On landing we were most kindly received 

 by the English resident, the only permanent 

 white man there ; and, after a few days of 

 preparation, he sent us off into the jungle, 

 with a caravan of forty-five camels, as many 

 men, and six to eight ponies. We carried 

 with us in our metal barrels some distilled 

 water brought from Aden, as the water on the 

 coast had a bad reputation ; well-earned, we 

 thought, when we had pointed out to us, near 

 the resident's dwelling, a small, white stone, 

 upright in the ground, and were told the 

 former resident rested beneath it. 



Shortly before we started inland an acci. 

 dent happened to A. D. S.'s camera, which 

 crippled his photographic work a good deal. 

 While taking some photographs one evening, 

 he noticed that the film-roll turned very hard, 

 and finally something broke inside the camera. 



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