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Uganda by Pen and Camera
matches or soap or tea or salt have been forgotten. One does not realise what a necessity such small articles are until it is impossible to get them. I have known at least one man who had to go supperless to bed, and a whole camp had to be pitched in the dark, because he did not know in which box his matches were, and could not find them in the dark. The nearest dwelling was more than two miles away, and it was raining very heavily. These are not hardships of travelling in Africa; they are the fruits of carelessness.
