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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
carry a load exceeding 50 lbs., the mission stations’ 
regulation allowance, whereas the others would willingly 
carry one of 65 lhs. without a murmur. We were 
unanimous in our decision to dismiss these mission men 
as soon as we reached Taveta, our proposed head¬ 
quarters. Three of our personal attendants were 
Indians. John the headman was told off to H., and 
looked after the other two ; Boy was B.’s servant; and 
the third, who was a native of Goa, acted as cook. His 
chief faults consisted in making a point of getting 
drunk or catching fever whenever he got the chance, 
and now and again he would manage to pull off the 
double event. My man was a strange individual, 
named Anole, a native of the Seychelle Islands, a buck 
nigger and a first-class rascal. He could speak a little 
Swahili and string together a few words in French; 
his accomplishments were dancing and fighting (le boxe, 
as he called it), neither of which were of the least use 
to me. 
Our loads comprised cotton cloth (American), iron 
and copper wire, trade powder and beads of all sorts to 
suit the different native tastes, always capricious, and a 
few packages of double-barrelled guns, revolvers, 
musical boxes, clocks and “startling novelties,” intended 
for special presents to the chiefs. Martin had five men 
told off to carry his tent and baggage, and we had a 
number more for our personal equipment and ammuni¬ 
tion. The donkeys, who helped to carry the tents, 
required three other donkeys, in the shape of mission 
boys, to look after them. 
