. African game trails;. Hunting. TO THE UASIN GISHU 391 I gave my own followers some of the chocolate, or whatever else it was that I had put in my saddle pocket, I always noticed that they called up Yohari to share it. He it was who would receive the colored cards from my companions' tobacco pouches, or from the packages of chocolate, and after puzzling over them until he could himself identify the brilliantly colored ladies, gentlemen, little girls, and wild beasts, would volubly explain them to the others. Kassitu- ra, quite as effi- cient and hard- working, was a huge, solemn black man, as
. African game trails;. Hunting. TO THE UASIN GISHU 391 I gave my own followers some of the chocolate, or whatever else it was that I had put in my saddle pocket, I always noticed that they called up Yohari to share it. He it was who would receive the colored cards from my companions' tobacco pouches, or from the packages of chocolate, and after puzzling over them until he could himself identify the brilliantly colored ladies, gentlemen, little girls, and wild beasts, would volubly explain them to the others. Kassitu- ra, quite as effi- cient and hard- working, was a huge, solemn black man, as faithful and un- complaining a soul as I ever met. Kermit had picked him out from among the porters to carry his came- ra, and had then promoted him to be gun-bearer. In his place he had taken as camera-bearer an equally powerful porter, a heathen M'nuwezi named Mali. His tent boy had gone crooked; and one evening some months later after a long and trying march he found Mali, whose performance of his new duties he had been closely watching, the only man up; and Mali, always willing, turned in of his own accord to help get Kermit's tent in shape; so Kermit suddenly told him he would pro- mote him to be tent boy. At first Mali did not quite under-. Yohari with the waterbuck shot by Kermit Roosevelt From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, London, Syndicate publishing company
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