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menta the better. We found a camp bucket (sold, I 

 believe, by Silver) very useful, because it contains in a 

 surprisingly small space nearly all you want in the hard- 

 ware line ; and I strongly recommend an air mattress and 

 small indiarubber bath. I have used for many years 

 two rifles, an English Express, 450 cal., and a Win- 

 chester repeater. The Express cost fifty guineas, the 

 Winchester a few dollars, and I prefer the latter. The 

 '95 pattern Winchester, 30 cal., shooting the U. S. 

 service bullet, is a wonderful weapon for the price, and 

 extraordinarily effective ; but I cannot testify to its effect 

 on big bears, although I am told that the trappers pre- 

 fer it to a larger bore. Winchester cartridges can be 

 bought everywhere. 



Clothing and boots are better made and far cheaper in 

 England; but blankets, tents, cooking utensils, and so 

 forth, can be bought as cheaply in any Western town, 

 and will fetch second-hand a certain sum. It is most 

 important to take the best field-glass that money can 

 buy. 



Every sportsman has his own ideas about the com- 

 missariat department. Personally, I contend that the 

 more you can conveniently take in the canned goods 

 line the better. Straight meat agrees with very few. 

 Canned corn, canned tomatoes, canned beans and bacon, 

 dried fruits and vegetables, and plenty of cheese, make 

 camp life healthier and cheerier. At any rate, a few 

 cases of these will soften the first rigours of the cam- 

 paign; and when they are gone, you will be hardened 

 and able to forego such luxuries. In any case, don't 

 stint the sugar. Saccharine matter in some form would 

 seem to be an imperious necessity to a man living the 

 primal life. Chocolate, too, is a wonderful food, and one 

 too often ignored by the sportsman. 



I submit a list, beginning, as will be seen, with 



