BRINGING HOME THE GAME.
Towards June Lohse begins to get ready for the home trip. He divides his procession into a dozen or so companies. There is a cook for each company, and they cook or rather make "durah," a sort of "journey cake" of corn. Each big giraffe has one rider and two or three men to lead it. The elephants require the same number of attendants. The ostriches have their legs shackled so that they can take only extremely short steps. They go along with their old friends the goats. The other animals are boxed up and the patient camels tug them along on rude carts. There are from 300 to 400 men, and from 90 to 100 camels in a procession, and they have plenty of work to do.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 10 August 1888, Page 31
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132BRINGING HOME THE GAME. Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 10 August 1888, Page 31
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