. African game trails. Hunting. 96 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS one word or one phrase whlch^ when we asked to have it translated, might or might not prove to be entirely mean- ingless. The headmen carried no burdens, and the tent boys hardly anything, while the saises walked with the spare horses. In addition to the canonical and required costume of blouse or jersey and drawers, each porter wore a blanket, and usually something else to which his soul inclined. It might be an exceedingly shabby coat; it might be, of all things in the world, an umbrella, an article for. The American flag was always at t
. African game trails. Hunting. 96 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS one word or one phrase whlch^ when we asked to have it translated, might or might not prove to be entirely mean- ingless. The headmen carried no burdens, and the tent boys hardly anything, while the saises walked with the spare horses. In addition to the canonical and required costume of blouse or jersey and drawers, each porter wore a blanket, and usually something else to which his soul inclined. It might be an exceedingly shabby coat; it might be, of all things in the world, an umbrella, an article for. The American flag was always at the head or near the head of the line of march 'I'he caravan on safari at Potha From a photograph by Kervtit Roosevelt which they had a special attachment. Often I Vvould see a porter, who thought nothing whatever of walking for hours at mid-day under the equatorial sun with his head bare, trudging along with solemn pride either under an open umbrella, or carrying the umbrella (tied much like Mrs. Gamp's) in one hand, as a wand of dignity. Then their head-gear varied according to the fancy of the indi- vidual. Normally it was a red fez, a kind of cap only used in hot climates, and exquisitely designed to be useless therein because it gives absolutely no protection from the sun. But one would wear a skin cap; another would sud- denly put one or more long feathers in his fez; and another, discarding the fez, would revert to some purely savage head-dress which he would wear with equal gravity whether it were, in our eyes, really decorative or merely comic. One such head-dress, for instance, consisted of the skin of the. 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, C. Scribner's sons
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