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As to the cost of a trip of three or more months in 
the field I should say that about one thousand dol¬ 
lars a month would amply cover the total expenses 
from New York back to New York. This amount 
would include passage money, guns, ammunition, 
landing charges, commissions, camera expenses on 
a reasonable scale, tents, customs—in fact all the in¬ 
cidental items which are not customarily included 
in the estimate given by the Nairobi outfitters. 
These firms, chief of which are the Newland, Tarl- 
ton and Company, Limited, which directed Colonel 
Roosevelt’s safari and the Boma Trading Com¬ 
pany, which directed the Duke of Connaught’s 
hunt, agree to outfit a party at a cost of about five- 
hundred dollars a month for each white man. For 
this amount they furnish everything except your 
ammunition, clothes, medicines, camera supplies, 
export and import duties, mounting of trophies, 
passage money to and from Africa, and such items. 
To particularize, they agree to supply for this 
amount, a complete outfit of tents, foods, porters, 
camp attendants, gunbearers, horses, mules or ox 
teams, as may be required, and a native head-man 
or overseer. 
One who wished to do so could telegraph ahead 
to have one of the Nairobi outfitting firms pre¬ 
pare a one, two or three months’ hunt, or safari 
and then; with only a suit-case he could arrive, 
with the certainty that everything would be in 
readiness. There would be no worry or concern 
about any feature of that part of the work. He 
