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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
at Mombasa. Our next manoeuvre was the engage¬ 
ment of four dhows to convey us and our loads to 
Babai, and after this, with the exception of about 
sixty more carriers, whom we expected to get without 
much trouble, our final arrangements for starting into 
the interior were as complete as we could manage to 
make them. 
