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From the ship Barons Von Plessen & Boecklin. A [[underlined]] most [[/underlined]] cheerful evening!
[[underlined]] Dec 23. [[/underlined]]
A busy morning packing our kit & making final arrangements, hair cut off short etc etc.
Started after lunch & drove out to Bates' farm about 12 miles, having started the Safari off at noon.
[[underlined]] Dec 24 [[/underlined]]
Usual sort of small troubles with the Safari, but they melt away when tackled. 4 Porters are reported very idle, but hope that the cheerful promise of being well "pegad" may have the desired effect.
Today we are waiting for a Wanderobo of Bates to go with us & have been sorting annunition & rearranging the chop boxes.
We are going to eat our Xmas dinner tonight as we have got a very long day over rough ground tomorrow.
There is no game here.
[[underlined]] Later [[/underlined]]
Went out in the evening & found some Kongoni & Impala however. C started to stalk them and turned them towards me. I ran about 1/4 of a 

Transcription Notes:
Per TC, when using [[..]] brackets to show underlining etc, only the 2nd one has the /, to show the end of the reference. Wanderobo = Kenyan tribe