54 
IN AFRICA 
After the arrival of the European steamer at Mom¬ 
basa business is brisk for several days as the dif¬ 
ferent parties sally forth for the wilds. 
On our ship there were four different parties. A 
young American from Boston, who has been spend¬ 
ing several years doing archaeological work in 
Crete, accompanied by a young English cavalry 
officer, were starting out for a six-weeks’ shoot south 
of the railway and near Victoria Nyanza. 
I Two professional ivory hunters were starting for 
German East Africa by way of the lake. Mr. 
Boyce and his African balloonograph party of 
seven white men were preparing for the photo¬ 
graphing expedition in the Sotik, and our party of 
four was making final preparations for our march. 
Consequently there was much hurrying about, and 
Newland and Tarlton’s warehouse was the center 
of throngs of waiting porters and the scene of in¬ 
tense activity as each party sorted and assembled its 
mountains of supplies. 
Seager and Wormald got off first, going by 
train to Kijabe, where they were to begin their ten 
days’ march in the Sotik. Here they were to try 
their luck for two or three weeks and then march 
back, preparatory to starting home. 
The professional ivory hunters were slow in 
starting. There was delay in getting mules. One 
of them had shot three hundred elephants in the 
Belgian Congo during the last four years, and it 
was suspected he had been poaching. The other had 
been caught by the Belgian authorities on his last 
