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The Ivory Trail

CHAPTER NINE
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He never except once stepped inside the tent, but was satisfied to give me a glance of contempt and go away again, once or twice taking pains to inspect the Greeks' camp before leaving.
He usually had Schubert trailing in his wake, and gave him stern orders about sanitation which nobody ever carried out.

The sanitary conditions of that rest-camp were simply non-existent until we came there, and we had gone to no pains on the Greeks' account.
But the Greeks did us an unexpected good turn, though it looked like making more trouble for us at the time.

They began to complain of lack of exercise, and to grow actually sick for want of it.

Because of that, and jealousy, they raised a clamor about our freedom to go anywhere within township limits as against their strict confinement to the camp.

The commandant came down to the camp in person to hear what they had to say, and being in a good humor saw fit to yield a point.
Being a military German, though, he could not do it without attaching ignominious conditions.
There was a band attached to the local company of Sudanese--an affair consisting of four native war-drums and two fifes.


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