ct order. The place looked ten years old instead of
only two.

We followed Horne to an enclosure, outside the gate of which were
stacked a great number of spears. Inside we found the owners of those
spears squatted before the open side of a small, three-walled building
containing a table and a chair. Horne placed himself in the chair,
lounged back, and hit the table smartly with his rawhide whip. From the
centre of the throng an old man got up and made quite a long speech.
When he had finished another did likewise. All was carried out with the
greatest decorum. After four or five had thus spoken, Horne, without
altering his lounging attitude, spoke twenty or thirty words, rapped
again on the table with his rawhide whip, and immediately came over to
us.

"Now," said he cheerfully, "we'll have a game of golf."

That was amusing, but not astonishing. Most of us have at one time or
another laid out a scratch hole or so somewhere in the vacant lot. We
returned to the house, Horne produced a sufficiency of clubs, and we
sallied forth. Then came the surprise of our life! We played eighteen
holes-eighteen, mind you-over an excellently laid-out and kept-up
course! The fair greens were cropped short and smooth by a well-managed
small herd of sheep; the putting greens were rolled, and in perfect
order; bunkers had been located at the correct distances; there
were water hazards in the proper spots. In short, it was a genuine,
scientific, well-kept golf course. Over it played Horne, solitary except
on the rare occasions when he and his assistant happened to be at the
post at the same time. The nearest white man was six days' journey;
the nearest small civilization 196 miles.* The whole affair was most
astounding.

* Which was, in turn, over three hundred miles from the
next.

Our caddies were grinning youngsters a good deal like the Gold
Dust Twins. They wore nothing but our golf bags. Afield were other
supernumerary caddies: one in case we sliced, one in case we pulled,
and one in case we drove straight ahead. Horne explained that unlimited
caddies were easier to get than unlimited golf balls. I can well believe
it.

F. joined forces with Horne against B. and me for a grand international
match. I regret to state that America was defeated by two holes.

We returned to find our camp crowded with savages. In a short time we
had established trade relations and were doing a brisk business. Two
years before we should