Cuninghame, Kermit, Mr. Roosevelt.. Heller, and Heatley at Buffalo Camp. 
Heller jail 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 ele¬ 
phant, in hot climates. On this first five- 
weeks’ trip we got some seventy skins, in¬ 
cluding twenty-two species ranging in size 
from a dikdik to a rhino, and all of these 
Heller prepared and sent to the Smithso¬ 
nian. Mearns and Loring were just as busy 
shooting birds and trapping small mam¬ 
mals. Often while Heller would be off for 
a few days with Kermit and myself, Mearns 
and Loring would be camped elsewhere, 
in a region better suited for the things they 
were after. While at Juja Farm they went 
down the Nairobi in a boat to shoot water- 
birds, and saw many more crocodiles and 
hippo than I did. Loring is a remarkably 
successful trapper of small mammals. I do 
not believe there is a better collector any¬ 
where. Dr. Mearns, in addition to birds and 
plants, never let pass the opportunity to col¬ 
lect anything else from reptiles and fishes to 
land shells. Moreover, he was the best shot 
in our party. He killed two great bustards 
with the rifle, and occasionally shot birds 
like vultures on the' wing with a rifle. I 
do not believe that three better men than 
