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our departure. I served out twenty rounds of ammu- 

 nition to each of the porters, and provided each of 

 the Soudanese and SomaK with fifty. This well-nigh 

 exhausted the store of cartridges we had taken with us. 

 Owing to the amount of shooting I had done while on 

 this journey, I had at that time but fifty-five rounds left 



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for my Winchester, and Lieutenant von Hohnel had 

 sixty-four left for his Mannlicher. After serving out 

 the ammunition to the men, we discovered that we had 

 300 rounds as a reserve supply in case of emergencies. 



It was a bright moonlight night, and strict watch 

 was kept, lest the natives should attack us; for Motio 

 had told us that the Zanzibari caravan, which had been 



