NATIVES PLANTING GROUND NUTS 
A gray mule, one of the pair we had risked taking into 
the Embo country—the one for Mrs. Fleischmann, the other 
for any sick or injured member of the caravan,—was taken 
with horse-sickness in the morning and died on the road at 
4 P. M. 
Soon after pitching camp, a local chief sent twelve car¬ 
riers to us, with presents of sugar-cane and bananas,—excus¬ 
ing his own absence with the fact of his nephew having small¬ 
pox. Sent return presents—red bandanna and cigarettes— 
and told him his absence was excusable, and that the only 
thing that would not be excused would be his attendance. 
The cook being short of meat, we went out for guinea fowl, 
which had been seen near camp. Greatly to the amusement 
of the beaters, I fell into a muddy river and returned very 
shortly; but between us we managed to get enough birds to 
last as food until we reach the game country again. 
WOMEN COLLECTING GRASS 
