peoples, on the subject of women. The annoyance and danger due, despite the strictest discipline, to what every African traveller knows as “woman palaver” is ]3ractically done away with when the men are accompanied by their wives.

On the road, too, the women form extra porters — it being much easier for a soldier to carry his food, mat, cooking pot, blanket, ammunition and rifle, with a wife to help him; and if she has a servant or two in addition, it makes things easier still for him. It must be borne in mind that among the races of which I am speaking the women are all used to hard work; and I have rarely heard of a case in which they preferred to stay in a comfortable station to following their men on the road. Arriving at the camp, each man immediately sets to and builds a small hut for himself