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ing this continually we managed finally to 

 drive the old fellow away. The sick people, 

 who came to us to be cured, troubled us not a 

 little here. In an evil moment, H. K. had said 

 that the other two sahibs were medicine men ; 

 and, when this rumor became well circulated, 

 it caused a serious drain on our mustard plas- 

 ters and compound cathartic pills. 



Since leaving the maritime plain, we had 

 been at an altitude of about 4,000 feet — for a 

 few days from 6,000 to 8,000 — and remained 

 at about 3,000 feet for the rest of the trip, 

 except during the descent to the coast. This 

 insured us freedom from malarial troubles. 

 How free the air was from germs will be 

 readily seen from the following fact. Our 

 butter, which we had brought out from Lon- 

 don, was sealed up in two-pound tin cans. 

 When opened, these cans lasted each one of 

 us about ten days, and during that time the 

 butter melted to a liquid state during each 

 day, and became solid again at night. Not- 

 withstanding this fact, it remained perfectly 

 sweet until used up. 



Although disappointed at not finding more 

 signs of lion in the Gadabursi country, we got 



some splendid antelope shooting, principally 



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