CHAPTER XXV 
EQUIPMENT, ARMS, AND PRESERVATION OF 
SPECIMENS 
We do not think it necessary to go into details of the 
equipment of a safari for a trip in East or Middle Africa, 
because so much must depend upon the length of the trip, 
the locality traversed, and the purposes and individual hab¬ 
its and tastes of the party. A short hunting or collecting 
trip along the line of the Uganda Railway can be man¬ 
aged very inexpensively by any fairly competent tyro with¬ 
out a guide. A long trip, however, can only be undertaken 
either by a man who is thoroughly up to his work or who 
has some good and competent man with him to supply 
his own shortcomings. Our own recommendation is that 
the outfitting should be done on the spot, although pro¬ 
visions and equipment can readily be obtained in Lon¬ 
don also. Messrs. Newland, Tarlton & Co., of Nairobi, 
attended to our outfit, and were we to repeat the trip we 
would go to them again. According to American stand¬ 
ards, however, especially of the old-time West, the average 
East African sportsmen's outfit is rather needlessly elab¬ 
orate; nevertheless, we question whether a newcomer will 
know what it is safe to discard. Mr. Stewart Edward 
White in the appendix to his book gives some good recom¬ 
mendations from the standpoint of a hardy man who does 
not expect luxuries. Mr. White is wrong in some of his 
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