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I could give good reasons for all that I have recommended with regard 

 to shoes ; and you had better neglect nothing. I took all these precau 

 tions and yet suffered a thousand times more, and was delayed more, 

 from foot-soreness than from fatigue. English pedestrians and sports 

 men often wear much heavier and clumsier shoes than I have advised. 



Knapsack. We had the India-rubber army knapsack, made at ISTauga- 

 tuck, Connecticut. If you can get them well &quot; seasoned,&quot; so that they 

 will not stick or smell, and with a good harness, they will probably be 

 the best you can procure. Ours were so, and we found them convenient 

 and to wear well. 



Clothing you can get in England better than at home, if you wish to 

 buy any. You must dispense with every thing not absolutely essential 

 to your comfort ; for every ounce is felt in a hot day. We carried in our 

 knapsacks each about as follows : 



Four shirts, 1 pair cloth pantaloons, 2 pair socks, slippers, handker 

 chiefs, mending materials, toilet articles, coarse towel, napkin, leather 

 drinking-cup, cap, oil-silk cape, portfolio with writing and sketching ma 

 terials, knife and fork, candle of tallow (that it may be used to grease 

 shoes with upon occasion), matches, a book, map, pocket-compass, ad 

 hesive plaster, cord, shoe-lacings. 



Every thing selected with great care for lightness and compactness, 

 and the whole weighing ten pounds and a-half, including knapsack and 

 straps. We wore upon the road light cloth coats and waistcoats, and 

 linen dusters or blouses, and light cassimere pantaloons. We each car 

 ried a strong, hooked hickory-stick, and it will be found best to do so. 

 We usually wore broad-brimmed, pliable felt hats of the best quality ; 

 they were excellent both in sun and rain. We also had light linen caps. 



For rainy weather a cape of the best black oiled silk, 22 inches long 

 before, and 16 inches behind, with a low collar, and buttoning in front, 

 weighing half-a-pound, and folding so small that it could be carried in a 

 coat pocket a most capital and serviceable article. With a loop and 

 a tape it may be gathered tight at the waist under the knapsack, so as 

 not to be lifted by the wind. 



A flask for drink is hardly worth its carriage in England. A man 

 every way in health should be able to walk a dozen miles or more with 

 out wanting to drink. Where good water is constantly to be had, it is 

 refreshing to taste it very frequently, and there are no ill effects to be 

 apprehended from doing so. You will perspire more freely, and I think 

 stand the heat better ; but cold water will not quench thirst, except mo- 



