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A BUFFALO-HUNT BY THE KAMITI 
Cuninghame, Kermit, Mr. Roosevelt, Heller, and Heatley at Buffalo Camp 
Heller was soon on the ground with his skinning-tent 
and skinners, and the Boer farmer went back to fetch the 
ox-wagon on which the skins and meat were brought in 
to camp. Laymen can hardly realize, and I certainly did 
not realize, what an immense amount of work is involved 
in getting and preparing the skins of large animals such as 
buffalo, rhino, hippo, and above all elephant, in hot climates. 
On the first five-weeks’ trip we got some seventy skins, in¬ 
cluding twenty-two species ranging in size from a dikdik to 
