SEEKING ROMANTIC ADVENTURES. 
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the ground; but he recovered himself, and made two or three jumps 
onward, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into the 
magazine, my rifle holding only four, all of which I had fired. Then 
he tried to pull up, but as he did so his muscles seemed suddenly to 
give way, his head drooped, and he rolled over and over like a shot 
rabbit. Each of my first three bullets had inflicted a mortal wound.” 
This CoL Roosevelt calls his most thrilling moment. It will no 
doubt seem tame to him now after his thrilling days of hunting 
lions and other ferocious beasts in Africa. 
HOW AN AFRICAN TRAVELLER’S CARAVAN IS MADE. 
Safari is the name used all over East Africa for what in the 
West we call ^'outfit”-—the men you take along to enable you to 
prosecute your journey, or procure you sport. Col. Roosevelt, of 
course, became very familiar with the East African terms. The 
pleasure and success of an East-African trip depend more on a 
well-chosen and well-managed safari than on anything else—more, 
even, than on the perseverance and skill of the sportsman or 
traveller. 
In olden days of safari travelling, when ivory or game was 
sought, the process of collecting a safari on the East coast was 
simplicity itself. Zanzibar was usually the starting-point, and the 
Zanzibari authorities were the intermediaries between the white 
man or Arab and the unfortunate natives. These were compelled 
to go on any journey, with any adventurer their masters gave them 
orders to accompany. Some little part of wages due to them they 
might or might not receive. They were mere slaves, and had no 
choice in the matter. They were landed on the mainland, men, 
women, and children, at so much the head, and started with their 
loads into the dangerous unknown. 
If they fell down by the way they were kobokoed till they rose 
again. If they could not rise, they were left where they lay. If 
they deserted, they were shot by their masters or, if they escaped 
from them, were murdered by unfriendly tribes, who naturally 
strove in every way they could to prevent the inroads of caravans, 
H. B. G.—5 
