GENERAL OUTFIT AND ROUTE OF TRAVEL 



pairs of trousers or breeches, one light and one heavy 

 coat, four pairs of boots, two pairs of puttees, cummer- 

 bands, handkerchiefs, and a small but well-stocked sewing 

 bag; all of which, with the exception of the boots, will go 

 into a small, air-tight tin or steel uniform case, best bought 

 in England, but also procurable at Port Said or Nairobi. 

 This light tin box will also hold the necessary toilet arti- 

 cles and yet only weigh about sixty pounds or under. For 

 the boots and soiled clothes (which as a rule are washed 

 every day or two by the personal servant or "boy"), as 

 well as clothes not dry, a waterproof canvas bag with lock- 

 bar is the best. This bag, which also may contain a pair 

 of rubber boots and an extra rain coat, is generally added 

 to the camp chair, or table, to form another load. 



7. Camp furniture and kitchen utensils should contain 

 at least a collapsible cot with sleeping bag, a camp table 

 and ditto chair or two, a complete aluminum cooking outfit 

 in a waterproof canvas bag, a simple collapsible grill, ditto 

 baking oven, and one or two bread forms. A couple of 

 the so-called " South African water bags " of canvas — a 

 most useful addition to one's camp outfit — a few canvas 

 pails and wash basins, and possibly a canvas bath tub, and 

 the hunter has everything really necessary to his health 

 and comfort in as small a bulk as possible. 



8. A small emergency tent is another very useful arti- 

 cle to take along. This could be of a pyramid shape, with 

 but one collapsible pole in the center and with waterproof 

 ground cloth sewed on all around, about six and a half 

 feet high by six and a half feet square at the bottom. This 

 tent, preferably with a pole of bicycle tubing in three sec- 

 tions, rolls up into a very small parcel and need not weigh 



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