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There was one other bit of impedimenta, less usual 
for African travel, but perhaps almost as essential for 
real enjoyment even on a hunting trip, if it is to be of 
any length. This was the 44 pigskin library,” so called 
because most of the books were bound in pigskin. 
They were carried in a light aluminium and oilcloth 
case, which, with its contents, weighed a little less than 
sixty pounds, making a load for one porter. Including 
a few volumes carried in the various bags, so that I 
might be sure always to have one with me, and 
44 Gregorovius,” read on the voyage outward, the list 
was as printed in Appendix E. 
It represents in part Kermit’s taste, in part mine; 
and, I need hardly say, it also represents in no way all 
the books we most care for, but merely those which, for 
one reason or another, we thought we should like to 
take on this particular trip. 
1 used my Whitman tree army saddle and my army 
field-glasses ; but, in addition, for studying the habits of 
the game, I carried a telescope given me on the boat by 
a fellow traveller and big-game hunter, an Irish Hussar 
Captain from India—and incidentally I am out in my 
guess if this same Irish Hussar Captain be not worth 
watching should his country ever again be engaged in 
Lady Lugard. ( 44 A Tropical Dependency.”) 
Sir Clement L. Hill, K.C.B., M.P. (Late Head of the African 
Department, Foreign Office.) 
Sir H. Seton-Karr, M.P., C.M.G. (“ My Sporting Holidays.”) 
Captain Boyd Alexander. (“ From the Niger to the Nile.’ 1 ) 
Sir J. Kirk, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. (Dr. Livingstone’s companion, 
1858-64.) 
Moreton Frewen, Esq. 
The Earl of Warwick. 
P. L. Sclater, Esq., D.Sc., Ph.D. (Late Secretary Zoological 
Society.) 
Colonel J. H, Patterson, D.S.O. (“The Tsavo Lion.”) 
