CHAPTER XXII 
WAYS AND MEANS. WHAT TO TAKE AND WHAT NOT 
TO TAKE. INFORMATION FOR THOSE THAT 
WISH, INTEND OR HOPE TO HUNT IN 
THE AFRICAN HIGHLANDS 
When one returns to America after some time in 
the African game country, he is assailed by many 
questions from others who wish, intend, or hope to 
make a similar trip. Almost without variation the 
questioner will ask about the cost, about the danger 
from fever and sickness, about snakes and insects, 
about the tempers of the tribes one encounters, and 
then, if he be a specialist, he will ask about the rifles 
and the camp equipment. As these familiar and 
oft repeated inquiries have been made by friends 
who had read my African letters, I must assume 
that the features of an African hunting trip, about 
which people are most curious, were very imper¬ 
fectly answered in the preceding chapters. Hence, 
this supplementary chapter, dealing briefly with the 
ways and means of such a trip, is added for the en¬ 
lightenment of such readers as may be planning a 
journey into those fascinating regions of Africa 
where I have so recently been. 
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