A herd of zebra and hartebeest. 
One of the interesting features of African wiknife is die close association and companionship so often seen between two totally 
lem religion, together with a partially Ara- 
bicized tongue and a strain of Arab blood 
from the Arab warriors and traders who 
have been dominant in the coast towns for 
so many centuries. It was these Swahili 
trading caravans, under Arab leadership, 
which, in their quest for ivory and slaves, 
trod out the routes which the early white 
explorers followed. Without their work as 
a preliminary the work of the white ex¬ 
plorers could not have been done; and it 
was the Swahili porters themselves who 
rendered this work itself possible. To this 
day every hunter, trader, missionary, or 
explorer must use either a Swahili safari or 
one modelled on the Swahili basis. The 
part played by the white-topped ox wagon 
in the history of South Africa, and by the 
camel caravan in North Africa, has been 
played in middle Africa by the files of 
strong, patient, child-like savages, who have 
borne the burdens of so many masters and 
employers hither and thither, through and 
across, the dark heart of the continent. 
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Equatorial Africa is in most places none 
too healthy a place for the white man, and 
he must care for himself as he would scorn 
to do in the lands of pine and birch and 
frosty weather. Camping in the Rockies 
or the North Woods can with advantage 
be combined with “roughing it”; and 
the early pioneers of the West, the explor¬ 
ers, prospectors, and hunters, who always 
roughed it, were as hardy as bears, and 
lived to a hale old age, if Indians and ac¬ 
cidents permitted. But in tropic Africa 
a lamentable proportion of the early ex¬ 
plorers paid in health or life for the hard¬ 
ships they endured; and throughout most 
of the country no man can long rough it, in 
the Western and Northern sense, with im¬ 
punity. 
At Kapiti Plains our tents, our accommo¬ 
dations generally, seemed almost too com¬ 
fortable for men who knew camp life only 
on the Great Plains, in the Rockies, and 
in the North Woods. . My tent had a fly 
which was to protect it from the great heat; 
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