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IN AFRICA 
number of white men in the party. Each white 
man, requires, roughly, thirty natives to take care 
of him. In our party of four white people we had 
one hundred and eighteen. One would presume that 
the game would speedily be exterminated, yet it is 
said that the game is constantly increasing. After 
one day’s ride on the railway it would be hard to 
conceive of game being more plentiful than it was 
while we were there. Mr. Roosevelt carried nearly 
three hundred men with him, collected a great 
quantity of game, and necessarily spent a great 
deal of money. It is said that the expenses of his 
expedition approached ten thousand dollars a 
month, but the chances are that this figure is much 
more than the actual figure. 
At the time of our arrival there was a shortage 
in the porter supply, and we were obliged to take 
out men from a number of different tribes. Swahili 
porters are considered the best, but there are not 
enough to go round, so we had to take Swahilis, 
Bagandas, Kikuyus, Kavirondos, Lumbwas, Min- 
yamwezis, and a lot more of assorted races. Each 
porter carries sixty pounds on his head, and when 
the whole outfit is on the trail it looks like a pro¬ 
cession of much importance. 
The Norfolk Hotel is the chief rendezvous of 
Nairobi. In the course of the afternoon nearly all 
the white men on hunting bent show up at the hotel 
and patronize the bar. They come in wonderful 
hunting regalia and in all the wonderful splendor 
of the Britisher when he is afield. There is nearly 
