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IN AFRICA 
Most of our equipment, especially the food sup¬ 
plies, had been ordered by letter, and these we found 
to be practically ready. The remaining necessities, 
guns, ammunition, camera supplies, medical sup¬ 
plies, clothes, helmets, and so on, we assembled after 
two days of prodigious hustling. There was noth¬ 
ing then to be done except to hope that all our 
Part of the Equipment 
mountainous mass of equipment would be safely 
installed on the steamer for Mombasa. This steam¬ 
er, the Adolph Woermann, sailed from Hamburg 
on the fourteenth of August, was due at Southamp¬ 
ton on the eighteenth and at Naples on the thirtieth. 
To avoid transporting the hundred cases of sup¬ 
plies overland to Naples, it was necessary to get 
them to Southampton on the eighteenth. It was a 
