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ON SAFARI 
side. Remember that your pet murderer has already 
expiated his offence and is once more, by law, a free 
and responsible member of the African community. 
Acting on this conclusion, I wrote, months before start¬ 
ing on my next expedition to East Africa, urgently 
requesting our agents at Mombasa to secure for us 
once more the services of this same headman; or at 
least, in default of him personally, another precisely 
such as he. There might, perhaps, be just a spice of 
devilry in this, for our good friends at Mombasa feebly 
replied that they would do their best, but that they had 
never before heard of “ assassins at a premium ! ” 
Alas for us, their efforts failed; and our second 
headman was a poor forceless specimen, with no soul 
to lead or the power to control. The result involved 
endless trouble, day by day, in the direction and 
management of our safari, such discipline as obtained 
being that enforced by ourselves. 
The end, as already indicated (p. 236), was open 
mutiny; when the forces of moral suasion had neces¬ 
sarily to be replaced by those represented by the 
sjambok. The desired effect resulted. 
