val the tents are immediately got up and the wood and water fetched.
But in a tight place, men so handled by invariable rule are very apt
to sit down apathetically, and put the whole thing up to the white man.
When it comes time to help out they are not there. The contrast with a
well-disposed safari cannot be appreciated by one who has not seen both.

The safari-man loves a master. He does not for a moment understand any
well-meant but misplaced efforts on your part to lighten his work below
the requirements of custom. Always he will beg you to ease up on him,
to accord him favour; and always he will despise you if you yield. The
relations of man to man, of man to work, are all long since established
by immemorial distauri-custom-and it is not for you or him to change
them lightly. If you know what he should or can do, and hold him rigidly
to it, he will respect and follow you.

But in order to keep him up to the mark, it is not always advisable to
light into him with a whip, necessary as the whip often is. If he
is sullen, or inclined to make mischief, then that is the crying
requirement. But if he is merely careless, or a little slow, or tired,
you can handle him in other ways. Ridicule before his comrades is very
effective: a sort of good-natured guying, I mean. "Ah! very tired!"
uttered in the right tone of voice has brought many a loiterer to his
feet as effectively as the kick some men feel must always be bestowed,
and quite without anger, mind you! For days at a time we have kept our
men travelling at good speed by commenting, as though by the way, after
we had arrived in camp, on which tribe happened to come in at the head.

"Ah! Kavirondos came in first to-night," we would remark. "Last night
the Monumwezis were ahead."

And once, actually, by this method we succeeded in working up such a
feeling of rivalry that the Kikuyus, the unambitious, weak and despised
Kikuyus, led the van!

But the first hint of insubordination, of intended insolence, of willful
shirking must be met by instant authority. Occasionally, when the
situation is of the quick and sharp variety, the white man may have to
mix in the row himself. He must never hesitate an instant; for the only
reason he alone can control so many is that he has always controlled
them. F. had a very effective blow, or shove, which I found well worth
adopting. It is delivered with the heel of the palm to the man's chin,
and is more of a lifting, heaving shove t