last cloud of dust has died
down on the distant horizon. Only thus can I conceive of getting rid
of that amount of ammunition. In eight months of steady shooting,
for example-shooting for trophies, as well as to feed a safari of
fluctuating numbers, counting jackals, marabout and such small trash-I
got away with 395 rounds of small bore ammunition and about 100 of
large. This accounted for 225 kills. That should give one an idea.
Figure out how many animals you are likely to want for ANY purpose,
multiply by three, and bring that many cartridges.

To carry these cartridges I should adopt the English system of a stout
leather belt on which you slip various sized pockets and loops to suit
the occasion. Each unit has loops for ten cartridges. You rarely want
more than that; and if you do, your gunbearer is supplied. In addition
to the loops, you have leather pockets to carry your watch; your money,
your matches and tobacco, your compass-anything you please. They
are handy and safe. The tropical climate is too "sticky" to get much
comfort, or anything else, out of ordinary pockets.

In addition, you supply your gunbearer with a cartridge belt, a leather
or canvas carrying bag, water bottle for him and for yourself, a sheath
knife and a whetstone. In the bag are your camera, tape line, the
whetstone, field cleaners and lunch. You personally carry your field
glasses, sun glasses, a knife, compass, matches, police whistle and
notebook. The field glasses should not be more than six power; and if
possible you should get the sort with detachable prisms. The prisms
are apt to cloud in a tropical climate, and the non-detachable sort are
almost impossible for a layman to clean. Hang these glasses around your
neck by a strap only just long enough to permit you to raise them to
your eyes. The best notebook is the "loose-leaf" sort. By means of this
you can keep always a fresh leaf on top; and at night can transfer your
day's notes to safe keeping in your tin box. The sun glasses should not
be smoked or dark-you can do nothing with them-but of the new amberol,
the sort that excludes the ultra-violet rays, but otherwise makes the
world brighter and gayer. Spectacle frames of non-corrosive white metal,
not steel, are the proper sort.

To clean your guns you must supply plenty of oil, and then some more.
The East African gunbearer has a quite proper and gratifying, but most
astonishing horror for a suspicion of rust; and to use oil any