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ch. i] OUR FELLOW-PASSENGERS 
Englishmen, whether dashing army officers or capable 
civilians. They reminded me of our own men who have 
reflected such honour on the American name, whether in 
civil and military positions in the Philippines and Porto 
Rico, working on the Canal Zone in Panama, taking 
care of the custom-houses in San Domingo, or serving 
in the army of occupation in Cuba. Moreover, I felt 
as if I knew most of them already, for they might 
have walked out of the pages of Kipling. But I was 
not as well prepared for the corresponding and equally 
interesting types among the Germans, the planters, the 
civil officials, the officers who had commanded, or were 
about to command, white or native troops—men of 
evident power and energy, seeing whom made it easy 
to understand why German East Africa has thriven 
apace. They are first-class men, these English and 
Germans; both are doing in East Africa a work of 
worth to the whole world ; there is ample room for both, 
and no possible cause for any but a thoroughly friendly 
rivalry ; and it is earnestly to be wished, in the interest 
both of them and of outsiders too, that their relations 
will grow, as they ought to grow, steadily better—and 
not only in East Africa, but everywhere else. 
On the ship at Naples we found Selous, also bound 
for East Africa on a hunting trip; but he, a veteran 
whose first hunting in Africa was nearly forty years 
ago, cared only for exceptional trophies of a very few 
animals, while we, on the other hand, desired specimens 
of both sexes of all the species of big game that Kermit 
and I could shoot, as well as complete series of all the 
smaller mammals. We believed that our best work of 
a purely scientific character would be done with the 
mammals, both large and small. 
No other hunter alive has had the experience of 
