. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXPEDITION 153 A good pair of binoculars with a strap to hang them around the neck is an important detail of the outfit. After supplies and equipment have been selected and ordered there remains only the matter of securing a safari or caravan. This consists of a head man and his head porter, gun bearers, syces or grooms for the riding horses or mules, tent boys or personal servants, cooks and, last but far from least, the porters. These vary in numbers according to the number in the party and the le
. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXPEDITION 153 A good pair of binoculars with a strap to hang them around the neck is an important detail of the outfit. After supplies and equipment have been selected and ordered there remains only the matter of securing a safari or caravan. This consists of a head man and his head porter, gun bearers, syces or grooms for the riding horses or mules, tent boys or personal servants, cooks and, last but far from least, the porters. These vary in numbers according to the number in the party and the length of the stay in the interior. The Roosevelt party started with more than two hundred. The entire safari is native of course and consists usually of Somalis, Swahilis, Kikuyu, Wakamba, Uganda, Matabele, Masai, etc. Of these the Somalis receive the highest wages, as they are superior in every way to the rest. As gun bearers their bravery in a tight place makes. THE SERVICE REVOLVER Useful at close quarters them invaluable, and as porters they are able to carry greater weights than any of the other tribes. Mr. R. J. Cunninghame, the leader of Mr. Roosevelt's safari, takes exception to the Somalis, however, claiming that punishment is absolutely necessary in handling East African natives. Somalis will not stand beating, and it is difficult to enforce discipline and keep them up to their work without it. The other natives expect beating as part of the day's work and will lie down on order to take their whipping with the heavy sjambok or hippopotamus hide whip common to South and East Africa. These preliminaries having been arranged for Mr. Roosevelt, all that was necessary for him to do on arriving at Mombasa was to take the train on the Uganda Railway to Nairobi, pick up his outfit and begin 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 n
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