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His No. 2 boat, which is twelve feet long, three feet wide, 

 and weighs when light-rigged but twenty-eight pounds, folds 

 into a package sixteen inches in diameter, three feet long, 

 and is capable of carrying 600 pounds. 



A photograph camera is another essential element of the 

 pleasure of almost every party in search of either fish or game. 

 In the selection of this instrument of course you must consider 

 your bank account and the question of transportation. A 

 tripod camera, that will make a five-by-eight picture, fitted 

 with a twenty-five dollar lens, is desirable, but is both bulky 

 and expensive. A good detective camera, carrying a four-by- 

 five plate, is sufficient for recording all the choice bits of 

 scenery, views of camp, fish, and game, and for making por- 

 traits of the party, of a satisfactory quality. These vary in 

 price from ten or twelve dollars up to one-hundred dollars. 

 The little Kodak, and the Waterbury, are good for the 

 prices at which they are sold; but if one's means will admit 

 of a larger outlay, then it is better to have an Anthony 

 instrument, costing, when fitted up with roll-holder, about 

 eighty dollars. Glass negatives should no longer be thought 

 of for outdoor work. Celluloid is now prepared for this 

 purpose, and works so successfully as to effectually displace 

 glass for all time to come. No chemical outfit need be car- 

 ried for developing plates in camp. This part of the work 

 should be deferred until your return to civilization. Photog- 

 raphy has been so simplified of late years by the introduc- 

 tion of the dry-plate process, and by various other improve- 

 ments, that by careful study of the little book entitled "How 

 to Make Photographs," which is furnished with each camera, 

 and a few days devoted to making experiments, any person 

 of ordinary intelligence may learn to make fair pictures. Of 

 course it requires years of careful study and practice to become 

 an expert photographer; but such is not the aim of most per- 

 sons who take up the subject simply as an adjunct to hunt- 

 ing and fishing, and to make such pictures as would be sat- 



