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THE ROOSEVELT HUNT . 
binds you to pay your men what you stipulate, provide each with not less than 
a quart of cereals a day, and a water bottle and blanket, and furnish each gang 
of eight with a tent and cooking pot. The legal allowance of food, however, 
would be far from satisfactory to the average native. It is generally supposed 
that the inhabitants of cold countries are the great meat eaters, but the stories 
told of the quantities of meat consumed by the porters and other natives at- 
Copyright 1909, by 
Underwood & Underwood NATIVES WAITING EOR MEAT. 
Hippopotamus dragged from Victoria Nyanza, with six bullets in his head. 
tached to a “safari,” or African hunting party, would discount the tales illus¬ 
trating the capacity of the blubber-eating Esquimaux. They grumble if they 
do not have fresh meat daily; and they not only pick the bones clean, but ex¬ 
tract the marrow. A fair-sized party will consume two elands and waterbucks 
daily, if the hunters can furnish them with such rations. 
