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SEEKING ROMANTIC ADVENTURES. 
the first few days’ marching to pitch the tents the moment the safari 
comes in. So many at once for the wood. So many fetch water. 
One has to trench each tent. There are from ten to twenty other 
tents to be pitched. 
The men whose duty it is to do this are all told off, and let me 
say here that no one can, I believe, pitch a tent so fast or so well as 
TRAINING BOYS FOR HARDSHIPS. 
these people can. Smartness at the job is of vital importance. For 
instance, we had to reach a certain water spring, and as we did so, 
over us drew one of those dark, gray-lipped clouds that here mean 
torrent. 
Many of the men were sick and suffering from the severe cold 
and rain; for a month African fountains had not been sunny, 
and in the evening and at night you needed a suit of fur-lined under- 
