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pack camels ! We struck. It was going a little too 

 far. We made a huge fuss, and some one, probably 

 the cook, who seemed a more casual person than most, 

 attended to this little matter from that time onwards, 

 and things went quite smoothly. I am sure these 

 scruples about pigs are very largely labour-saving 

 dodges. 



Next morning as we marched we came on a half- 

 eaten lesser koodoo, surrounded by a lot of kites, 

 vultures, and white carrion storks, tall, imposing- 

 looking birds. We shot one to cure as a specimen, 

 damaging it rather. It had a horrid smell, but was 

 very handsome. One of the hunters skinned it at 

 our next camp. 



The American who was out with Clarence on his 

 last big shikar seemed to have been outrageously free 

 and easy in his dealings with the men. In fact, in 

 one or two trifling ways such habits as we heard of 

 had rather been to Clarence's detriment. A very 

 little encouragement breeds too great familiarity in 

 any native of narrow mind. I do not mean to infer 

 that Clarence presumed, or that his judgment was 

 ever at fault in his dealings with us, merely that I was 

 annoyed to hear some of his stories relating to the 

 terms on which the men of the camp were on with 

 the free and open-hearted Yankee. One would think 

 that an American, with the nigger problem ever before 

 him, would be more stand-offish than most people. 

 May be he considered himself on a real holiday, and 

 let his national socialistic tendencies run riot. This 

 is not " writ sarcastic," for I'm a Socialist myself, and 



