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get your complete outfit, so you need not bring 
anything with you but a suitcase. They will get 
your guns, your tents, your food supplies, your 
mules, your head-man, your cook, your gunhearers, 
your askaris (native soldiers), your interpreter, 
your ammunition, and your porters. They will 
have the whole outfit ready for you by the time you 
arrive in Nairobi. When you arrive in British East 
Africa, a-shooting bent, you will hear of Newland 
and Tarlton so often that you will think they own 
the country. 
Mr. Newland met us in Mombasa, and through 
his agents sent all of our London equipment of 
tents and guns and ammunition and food up to 
Nairobi. When we arrived in Nairobi he had our 
porters ready, together with tent boys, gunhearers, 
and all the other members of our safari, and in 
three days we were ready to march. The firm has 
systematized methods so much that it is simple for 
them to do what would be matters of endless worry 
to the stranger. In course of time you pay the 
price, and in our case it seemed reasonable, when 
one considers the work and worry involved. Most 
English sportsmen come out in October and No¬ 
vember, after which time the shooting is at its 
height. Two years ago there were sixty safaris, 
or shooting expeditions, sent out from Nairobi. 
When we left, late in September, there were about 
thirty. 
Each party must have from thirty to a couple of 
hundred camp attendants, depending upon the 
