So you arrive to a village, and check if there are any nice dinosaurs there. Nope, just lizards.
Leave, get a member killed in a freak accident, come back, and beg for somebody to join. Nobody is interested. (recruiting disabled)
But there were three volunteers earlier.
Another case is when you arrive in a village, check for dinosaurs...
Then when you leave, a guy wants to stay with the nice lizard female he met, and you let him.
And again you are a member short, all of the three volunteers that were willing to join just yesterday have changed their minds.
Chief Sekeletu of Kololo loaned Livingstone 114 men. These expeditions are diminutive...