. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . •GOLDFINCH AND HIS NEAV OUR HEADMAN (ON EXTKEME IUGHT), ELMI TO AUTHoKs LEFT, ENOCH BEHINDHIM, DEAD LIONESS IN FRONT ESCAPED CAMERA. FASCICULA 285 Our first lieadmau was a born leader—and he lookedit. When first introduced at Mombasa to that hugeswarthy personality, vast of fiame and truculent ofvisage, a tremor of fear—let me admit it—would scarcebe suppressed.^ I trust it was concealed. The idea ofspending months in the wilds, in company with thatsavage Soudanee, did disconcert for a moment; but nolong
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . •GOLDFINCH AND HIS NEAV OUR HEADMAN (ON EXTKEME IUGHT), ELMI TO AUTHoKs LEFT, ENOCH BEHINDHIM, DEAD LIONESS IN FRONT ESCAPED CAMERA. FASCICULA 285 Our first lieadmau was a born leader—and he lookedit. When first introduced at Mombasa to that hugeswarthy personality, vast of fiame and truculent ofvisage, a tremor of fear—let me admit it—would scarcebe suppressed.^ I trust it was concealed. The idea ofspending months in the wilds, in company with thatsavage Soudanee, did disconcert for a moment; but nolong time elapsed before we came to appreciate thetreasure we possessed. Before that iron will (andobvious power to enforce it) difiiculties and troublesmelted like butter on hot toast—few, indeed, ever daredto confront it. Discipline, in savage Africa, relies firston the moral power; but when that fails, in the nextresource force becomes the only law. Long afterwards when far away out-by, at aremote up-country station, our friend the officialrepreseutative of King and Empire asked us how thisheadman beha
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