When I was last in Africa, I found a book in the library of the home I stayed in about the early days of safari hunting. The industry is tightly regulated these days and was, to a certain degree, even during the early part of the 20th century. The hunters and guides were a hardy and courageous lot. No hunt was ever the effort of a single person; it was an orchestrated team event that kept guide and guest alive and made the hunt successful.

In one of the stories I read, after a hunt the guide drove the truck back to camp with his client sitting in the cab with him. The men who helped out rode in the back. As they neared home, the driver looked out the rear window to see one of the men in the back throwing things off the truck into the brush by the road. There was no emergency that necessitated jettisoning cargo.

Immediately realizing what was going on, the driver stopped the truck and confronted the man. He was stealing stuff, throwing it over the side so he could return later and retrieve it. The guide berated the fellow and made him backtrack to retrieve all he'd tossed. Then he fired him on the spot, paid him his earned wages, and sent him away.

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