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SIC TRANSIT (IN WEST AFRICA.) 



"Pass the quinine, old fellow, 



I think I'll take 10 grains. 

 It's only a touch of fever; j 



Always gets me in the rains. 

 I'll be all right in the morning. 



I'll turn in and have a good sweat. 

 I suppose I was a bit careless 



Pottering round in the vi'et. 



"Ta-ta, so long, old fellow, '. 



Don't worry now about 1 me. 

 'Spect I shall see you to-morrow — 



Can you ride over, say about three? 

 Oh ! yes, if I feel extra rotten 



I'll send up the hill for the 'doc.,' 

 But it takes more than this to upset me — '!; 



I'm tough as an old Niger 'croc.' " 



" 'D af'noon, sah ! I sorry too much, sah ! 



My massa done die plenty quick. 

 Yes, sah, I go fetch dem doctor 



Last night, but he no fit dem sick. 

 Dem fever too strong for dem med'ein. 



Tt'ihk '■. sb God call him for true. 

 Dem- massa a very good massa, 



Please,, sah, I fit work for you?" 



"West Africa." 



THE TRADE. 



By John D. Hamlvn. 



"Hamlyn's Menagerie Magazine" now enters 

 on its fifth year of existence with this number. 

 All subscriptions are now due. The Magazine 

 has been well received during the past four 

 years, for many new subscribers _. have become 

 members. 



I have no further news of the Okapi, but I 

 shoold not be surprised to hear of its arrival on 

 the s.s. " Albertville" which left Mataddi for 

 Antwerp on May 13th. I wish it a safe arrival. 



The West African steamers are now resum- 

 ing their normal voyages, consequently there 

 should should be consignments from this region 

 in a short time to come. I have the movements 

 of twenty-five steamers before me, some of which 

 I know to be old traders. Chimpanzees, Man- 

 drills, Parrots, with the common variety of 1 Mon- 

 keys, may be expected shortly. I have a repre- 

 sentative leaving shortly for the West Coast 

 region. I have no hunting rights over any par- 

 ticular region, and very much doubt whether any 

 one else has; still the West Coast is a mighty 

 large territory, with room enough for all the 

 trading Naturalists of the world. 



Trading in the Cape Territory, South Africa, 

 is much more difficult and certainly quite as ex- 

 pensive as the West Coast. 



The principal line of steamers, The Union 

 Castle Mail Line, do not take kindly to the con- 

 veyance of wild animals. Their cargo steamers 

 are only available. It is only with quick mail 

 steamers which have every possible convenience 

 that the proper transport of animals is assured. 



Still I hope for better times in this trade. 



My representative, G. W. Shaw, arrived in 

 ("ape Town last week on his way north. I hope 

 to announce the intended arrivals of some of the 

 rarer Antelopes shortly. Mr. Shaw does not in- 

 terfere with ' the Poirt Elizabeth or Transvaal 

 districts. Mis instructions are to- keep north. I 

 have already announced I do not intend sending 

 any collectors to E4st Africa. I hear that what 

 I consider extraordinary prices arc being offered 

 for animals in that region. It ma\ appear to the 

 Man in the Street a very small sum to offer for 

 Rhinos — £250 each — but the said Man does not 

 know the expenses attached to the transport of 

 animals. £250 is an exorbitant, foolish, idiotic 

 price to offer for any animal- in the wilds of 

 Africa, and speaking as 'an "expect of forty years' 

 Standing, I would not -give that sum for an 

 Okapi in the Congo Eortst.;;.T;The : expenses>of a 



