Of troy asked where the word "safari" came from I suspected it might be swahili, but in searching a found a new word site I haven't explored yet but looks promising:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/megalist.htm

When I looked at dictionary in the above word site, it said "safari" is from an Arabic word, as of troy guessed, and I doubted. Sweet are the uses of adversity. It can even pay to be wrong. Bill