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 whiskers, and certainly six feet high. To see him caring for a baby is very amusing. Still another new passenger is a Kaffir girl, a nurse, but she is so scantily dressed that she has been refused the run of the upper decks A young German girl left the ship at Tanga, and we hear she is engaged to the ship doctor. Their love affair has been the subject of much gossip, and when the girl left for shore in a small boat she wept bitterly. Bets of two to one are freely offered that the engagement will not result in marriage There is general relief because a young bull, which has been on board ever since we left Beira, departed on a scow at Tanga, after being lifted over the sides by the steam winches. The bull seemed to understand that he was about to get rid of his long confinement in a narrow box, and behaved very decently while being unloaded The trip up the east coast of Africa is distinguished because of its many stops, but this makes it a long trip. We are becoming tired, and did not go ashore at Tanga.

—There must be a tremendous amount of cargo on this boat. We ceased loading at Tanga at 9 o'clock this morning, and at 5 began again at Mombasa. At 5:15 we went down the stairway at the side of the ship, and a fight began among the boatmen over our patronage. The negro crew of row-*boat No. 5 won, and we went ashore, stopping on the way at the "Adolph Woerner," lying in the harbor. Landing, we walked a block to the street railway, which