314 POINTS TO BE REMEMBERED 



expedition must be " closed " in native fashion, 

 in order that none of your followers may be 

 separated by mistake from the main body. This 

 is done by scratching a line or two across them 

 with a stick, or throwing down into them a fresh 

 bunch of leaves or a bunch of grass. 



When hunting across country, and some 

 distance ahead of such natives as may be accom- 

 panying you, it is a safeguard, where the grass is 

 thick, to take a few stems in your hand every 

 hundred yards or so, and bend them over in the 

 direction you are taking ; this signal is well 

 understood. 



When nearing game and speech is impossible, 

 the existence in the line of march of thorns, 

 fallen timber, a column of ants, or anything it is 

 necessary to step over, is conveyed to the person 

 following behind by lightly slapping your right 

 thigh twice. 



On the road with carriers fully laden, it is a 

 good plan to allow them ten minutes' rest after 

 each complete hour's march. This delay is of 

 little consequence, and is much appreciated by 

 them ; but never allow them to sit down and 

 rest without permission. 



Never allow any member of the expedition, 

 under any pretext, to appropriate without pay- 

 ment anything he may fancy in the native 

 villages or gardens. It is a weakness of which 

 they are not seldom guilty, and should on all 

 occasions be most sternly repressed. 



Returning to the game of Zambezia, those 

 who have had the patience to peruse these pages, 



