Your letter does not say how long you will be on safari .
Mali-ya-bwana, myself, six men and these shenzis travel to where thesafari of Bwana Nyele marches.
Then since this magic bone can subdue for us a great lord of a m'zungu, surely it will also subdue for us a safari of black men like ourselves, a safari that the m'zungu has held in his hand.
No shrewder bargainer exists than your African safari man, and these soon discovered that beads and wire possessed great purchasing power in this unsophisticated country.
But now the safari, topping the hill, swept down with a rapid fire of safari sticks against the loads and a chorus whose single word was "n'yama!
By these tokens the safari men knew the strangers to be messengers.
The immediate result was five loads of potio brought by safari men to "somewhere in Africa," and thence transported by Simba's men to Simba's camp.
Then you must keep Bwana Nyele and these two shenzis close in camp, hidden where their safari cannot find them.
Kingozi's safari filed by, each man gazing in turn without expression at the huddled heap.
Shortly the safari men could be seen sauntering unconcernedly back to their little fires.
He learns he has what is called a "modest safari"; and spares a fleeting wonder as to what a really elaborate safari must be.
In making up a safari one tries to mix in four or five tribes.
Occasionally a trim and dapper police official would drift in on horseback looking for native criminals; and once a safari came by.
Inside a mile they had gravitated together and with the small boy's relish for imitation and for playing a game, had completed a miniature safari organization of their own.
It had been given us in joke before we left California, we had tucked it into an odd corner of our trunk, had discovered it there, carried it on safari out of sheer idleness, and lo!
When you are able to punish or hold your hand on these principles, and not merely because things have or have not gone smoothly or right, then you are a good safari manager.
The proud moment of Fundi's life was when safari entered Nairobi at the end of the first expedition.
The safari we had dimly heard passing us an hour before.
We finally debouched from the forest to the great clearing at the head of a most impressive procession, flags flying, oryx horns blowing, boys chanting and beating the sides of their loads with the safari sticks.
About the middle of the afternoon we sat down to wait for the safari to catch up.
The safariboys stand quite justly in a holy awe of the rhino.
We directed our safari there, and then immediately rode over to pay our respects to the Commissioner.
He awaited us leaning on his safari stick, panting heavily, the sweat running off his face in splashes.
The boys beat the surface of the water vigorously with their safari sticks.
Safari or caravan reported to be near, and my men and goods at Ujiji.
After two hours this morning, we came to villages of this chief, and at one were welcomed by the Safari of Salem Mokadam, and I was given a house.
He had with him a strong safari and a gentleman friend.
The safari marched faster than before, toward the exalted masses that trembled behind the heat.
When he began to starve, he joined the safari of a Muscat trader, traveled up-country, returned to the coast sick with fever.
I will give you permission to travel on safari as far as Fort Pero d'Anhaya.
Behind her streamed a hundred porters balancing on their heads the personal baggage, rolled tents, chop boxes, sacks of safari food.
The safari passed leopard traps, graves decked with broken pottery and little banners of rags, then, circling fields of maize, entered a village.
Closed eyes, sealed lips, a similacrum to mock her will, left behind by the spirit that had gone where she and the safari could not follow.
In thatsafari there were two white men and many askaris.
The safari pressed forward at a quick pace which was maintained most of the day.
The ringing cry of the bellbird had begun again in the deep jungle, and Biff was still hoping for a sight of the elusive campanero, when Luiz led the safari on a short side trail that terminated in a clearing.
Their meeting with Serbot's safari must have scared some of Serbot's crew into going back to Santa Isabel.
But Biff's heart sank, for he was afraid there would be no catching up with his ownsafari now.
At a few spots, Biff and Kamuka encountered tangled undergrowth which they managed to hack away with their machetes, by the time the safari caught up with them.
Nothing, at least, until the safari reached a deep but narrow stream that the bearers promptly identified as Rio Del Muerte.
He realized that he was gaining a slight preview of the Brazilian jungle that might prove helpful when he and his father set out on the safari that was actually to be a gold hunt.
Luiz, it seemed, had lost the trail during the rain and was marching the safari into a jungle swamp.
The safari must have come as far as we did," declared Biff, "in fact probably a lot farther, as they were supposed to keep on coming until they overtook us.
Evidently, the smiling man was anxious to learn which way the other safari had gone, and was hoping that Biff's change of manner would give the fact away.
Mr. Brewster waved thesafari to a stop and said: "Listen.
Trails began to join, and suddenly the trees spread as the safari emerged upon a sandy beach lapped by the black water of the Rio Negro.
The blacks belonging to Rokoff's safari were terror-stricken at the thought of the proximity of the white giant who hunted through the jungle with a fierce pack of apes and panthers at his heels.
Close behind them they heard the noise of a large safari advancing along the trail which they had cleared for their pursuers.
She watched him as he returned along the path to meet the oncoming safari of the Russian.
In itself the hunt was a success, and ten days after its inauguration, a well-laden safari took up its return march toward the Waziri plain.
From a heterogeneous collection of loot, Achmet Zek procured a pith helmet and a European saddle, and from his black slaves and followers a party of porters, askaris and tent boys to make up a modest safari for a big game hunter.
Falling back upon his European nationality, Werper assured Abdul Mourak that he was a Frenchman, hunting in Africa, and that he had been attacked by strangers, his safarikilled or scattered, and himself escaping only by a miracle.
At least they started on their dubious rescue mission with every aid the safari camp could muster.
Why should we court trouble--couldn't run a safari in under those conditions.
They were both silent as they took off from Wass' deserted camp, sped away over the black blot of the woodland towards the safari headquarters on the plains.
They shot along the diagonal of the triangle made by three points, the mountain valley, Wass' camp, and the safari headquarters, heading to the slopes up which the men must be herded if the beasts were shepherding them to the mountain valley.
He did not glance around to see what effect that screen view had on the other four men in the control cabin of the safari ship.
The lights above, the beasts below, the safari camp was under guard.
The length of distance lying between them and thesafari camp now faced them with a new problem.
It will be six months probably before the Guild sets up a safari for Jumala.
The Hunter was an expert with ray tube; that, too, was part of the necessary skill of a safari leader.
There was only the hope that a rescue party from the safari camp might come.
They're between us and the safari camp if we keep to the river--" "Between us and the river now.
Now encircling the bubble tents and the space ship was a force field: routine protection of a safari camp on a strange world and one Hume had set as a matter of course.
When the shadow beneath the tree began to lengthen toward the east, the safari shook itself together and prepared to move on once more.
Then, when darkness came again, the safariresumed the march.
With sudden animation the safari awoke from the lethargy of the hot, monotonous march.
Accordingly, through the long hot days the safari plodded back over the way we had come from the Soda Swamp to Agate's, from Agate's to the Honeybird River, and then on once more to the Last Water.
In spite of this fact, and although the dense woods and broken ground generally forced the safari to keep to the road, the cowboys were always ready and the cameras, always loaded with film.
Little by little the safari began to string out along the road until wide spaces grew between the ox-wagons, with the porters straggling after them a mile behind.
On the morning of that day we held the customary procession of an outgoingsafari down the main street of Nairobi to the waiting train.
By the time the sun rose, the first wagon was packed, so the safari set out on the journey, leaving the second wagon to load and follow our tracks, for there was no road to the Soda Swamp.
A general feeling of expectancy pervaded the entire safari when we broke camp at the Wangai River at dawn of a hazy morning.
When the dying moon first showed red through the branches of the twisted trees, the safari crossed the top of the Mau and commenced the slow descent to the valley, and the wagons in front became lost in the darkness and the dust.
Because a large part of the revenue of the country is derived from the visiting hunters, a safari is accorded privileges out of the ordinary.
Just as the day before, the morning came hot and still, and for hour after hour the straggling safari crawled slowly over the long waves of the undulating veldt.
In the meantime the safari was coming up, and as each section arrived it was halted, and the porters put down their loads and sat on them.
And each man rode as his judgment decreed, because the business of the safari then was to get on over the road, and the ox-wagons behind came along as best they could.
It was at once arranged that six months later a great safari was to be sent up, with Louis Schoverling in charge, to make a scientific exploration and map out the country about the hot lake.
In the morning Amir Ali reported that lions had been about, but they had made no disturbance, and the safari took up its advance soon after sun-up.
During their noon halt they met a freighter's wagon-safari trekking west to some of the outlying ranches, but the men were all Boers or natives, and no stop was made.
The faint sound of gun-shots drifted to them against the wind, and as the safari was out of sight behind the clusters of trees, all three urged their horses into a gallop, grave anxiety in their hearts.
A little after noon as they neared the safari they came upon a village which was in great excitement.
The next morning thesafari filed out from the camp, the Masai greeting the inspanning with huge delight.
This safari business is largely bally rot, to my mind.
Then you will cook for us, and will be in charge of the safari under my orders.
But though they traveled part of the night and all the following day no sign of the safari appeared ahead of them.
Five minutes later the safari of Jenssen and Malbihn was forcing its way rapidly toward the west, nervous askaris guarding the rear from the attack they momentarily expected.
The armed askaris loitered between the balance of the safari and the Arab village, ready to form a rear guard for the retreat that was to begin the moment that the head man brought that which the white masters awaited.
You can take care of the safari and be movin' along slow toward the north and the girl and I'll catch up to you.
He might even elude the Big Bwana should he follow them, and with this thought uppermost in his mind he gathered the remnants of Malbihn's safari into a semblance of order and moved off toward the north.
I can gather a safari and we can be a whole day upon the way to the coast before they guess that we have gone.
They were Carl Jenssen and Sven Malbihn, but little altered in appearance since the day, years before, that they and their safari had been so badly frightened by Korak and Akut as the former sought haven with them.
To his host he explained that he was moving his safari slowly toward the north--he said nothing of the party moving westward.
Though disconsolate he gave in to the boy's determination to pursue the safari of the white men, accompanying him upon what he believed would be their last journey together.
The stranger remained until Malbihn and his safari had disappeared into the jungle toward the north.
The head-man did, and he lost no time in getting the safari upon the march.
But the white giant did not appear again to lead the baboons against them, and finally the angry brutes themselves wandered off into the jungle leaving the frightened safari in peace.
Yet morning came, the morning meal was eaten, the camp broken and the disreputable safari of the Swedes was on the move northward with still no sign of the rescue the girl momentarily expected.
His course, then, must be to take advantage of this respite to prepare the safari for the struggle that could scarcely be avoided when they came to close quarters.
Accordingly the march was continued, and shortly afterwards the natives caught sight of the safari and bolted into the bush.
He had scarcely spoken when John caught sight of another safari coming across a ridge in the distance.
He could provision the safari for the whole of the homeward journey, and yet make a scarcely sensible inroad upon the resources of the people.
This movement, if detected, would probably draw the enemy to both sides of the gap, where they would wait in the bush, thinking they had the safari ambushed.
At length the safari arrived at the site of the farm, and though Mr. Halliday did not flatter himself that his troubles were over, he felt a great relief that the anxieties of the journey were a thing of the past.
The weather cleared about ten o'clock, and then a start was made; but the safari had only been an hour on the road when another downpour checked them.
One member of the safariwas the very man whom he had seen among the raiders.
You take the safari on the parallel line; I'll go with Bill and take my pocket-mirror with me.
One fine September day the safari set off, numbering twenty in all.
A safari is composed of the explorers, the native police, bearers, and the like.
For two successive days thesafari plunged on steadily without coming to the stream.
There was a worried look on his face as he lead the safari farther into the unknown.
They had everything in readiness by eight o'clock, and bidding the chief and his people good-bye, the safari made its way up the path.
He had recently returned from guiding another safari into a region far to the south.
They talked for several minutes, and in the end the chief motioned for the safari to follow him into the village.
He helped his friend to his feet and then started off toward where he thought the safari should be.
The chief escorted the safari to his own huge hut, where he asked that they remain for a while.
Still, the animals are likely to be frightened by such a largesafari as ours.
The youths were a little to one side of the safariand were falling behind.
Breakfast over, the safari again took up its long journey.
Led by Noko, the safarimade its way toward a distant jungle.
Then we'll organize a safari and plunge into the jungle.
You men left from there on your last safari in this part of Africa.
Maybe a nice solid dentist who owned a suit instead of some freelance photo jock who showed up for his sperm counts wearing khaki safari shirts.
He strode through the door, tan safari shirt, smelling like a man who'd just driven hundreds of miles through Central America in an open Jeep.
These generally disappear with wonderful rapidity, and when no more fun can be bought, they join another caravan and begin a new safari to the Great Lakes, or even beyond.
Our goods and safari stores we could then ship out to them by train.
The body of the truck was filled with safari loads, Memba Sasa, Simba Mohammed, and F.
The safari of twenty men was a very miscellaneous lot, consisting of the rag-tag-and-bobtail of the bazaars picked up in a hurry.
He claimed to have watched them even after the safari had passed, and that they had not been alarmed.
The next cut above the shenzi, or wild man, is the individual who has been on safari as carrier, or has otherwise been much employed around white men.
Under plea of starting our safari boys off we left him, and crept, with shattered nerves, around the corner of the dak-bungalow.
One of the safari boys, a big Baganda, had twisted his foot a little, and it had swelled up considerably.
We led our safariup to the level of a boulder flat between two deep cañons that ran down from the hills.
Now it was utterly swamped with business, for on it had descended all our safari of thirty-nine men and three mules.
Our men marched steadily, cheerfully, beating their loads in rhythm with their safari sticks, crooning under their breaths, and occasionally breaking into full-voiced chant.
Within two months Daphne was imitating as closely as possible the manners and customs of his safari mates.
So far, so good; but we were still very wet, and the uncomfortable thought would obtrude itself that the safari might not get in that day.
I fell into the custom of the country until I reflected that it would hardly be more fatal to me to walk a half-hour in the streets of Nairobi than to march six or seven hours--as I often did--when on safari or in the hunting field.
We were in no hurry, so we did not try to get our safari under way before eight o'clock.
Several of the low coast Arabs, who differ in nothing from the Waiyau, usually accompany the foray, and do business on their own account: this is the usual way in which a safari is furnished with slaves.
The safari under Sef set off this morning for Kilwa.
Drawing: Our Safari on the March] The early morning hours are bright and cool, but along about nine o'clock the equatorial sun begins to beat down upon our heavy sun helmets and our red-lined and padded spine protectors.
In any case he was overdue to die, but hitherto his amazing resolution, and that terrible strength of character that so astounded his porters, had kept him alive and moved his safari on.
Whoever wants a morning drink must wait for it now until the overland safari comes!
But now we gather nothing where our fathers sowed, For harvest grim the vultures wait in rows As, urged by greedier than us with gun and goad, Yoked two by two the slave safari goes.
