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shoos are far superior. Two pairs good woollen, and one 

 rubber blanket. A mosquito bar is indispensable, as 

 many nights the tormenting insects call their own. If 

 the country on the coast be visited, the &quot; bar &quot; should 

 be made of thin cotton or lawn, to keep out the &quot;sand- 

 flies,&quot; insects so small as hardly to be discernible, but 

 with a bite like the burn of a hot iron,. It would be 

 well to take a little salve and thin plaster for cuts and 

 bruises. In the line of medicine, one can take a whole 

 apothecary s shop, if so disposed, but, excepting a little 

 whiskey and quinine, the former for snake-bites, which 

 seldom occur, and the latter for imaginary fever, no med 

 icine will be needed, except for particularly squeamish 

 folks who think life not worth the living out of sight 

 of an &quot;K,&quot; or quack-doctor s laboratory. For light at 

 night, a lantern and candles will be sufficient, though ker 

 osene, where little transportation is to be made, is pref 

 erable. Buy it in New York in five-gallon can, boxed. 

 It will always sell for twice its cost. The keen, bracing 

 air gives more pungency to a haunch of venison or brace 

 of quail than all the sauces-piquante ever concocted. A 

 bunch of Spanish moss is infinitely superior to a napkin, 

 and the clear waters of some spring to the finger-bowl. 

 And here a word as to w r ater. 



Nearly all the water in East Florida is impregnated 

 more or less with lime, or some mineral or salt that gives 

 it a &quot; flat &quot; taste to the uninitiated, and a drink of raw 

 unadulterated water is not always acceptable. Some 

 people &quot; qualify &quot; it indeed the majority of settlers 

 &quot;qualify &quot; it so much that the original taste of the aqua 

 is lost in that of the qualifier. That is all a word to 

 the wise. We advise a plain mode of living. Take hard- 

 bread, &quot;self-raising flour,&quot; pork, salt, potatoes, brown 



