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onions should never be omitted. Bacon is always 

 welcome. A useful list of all articles necessary for 

 a South African hunting trip may be found in the 

 last chapter of the writer's Gun and Camera in Southern 

 Africa (Stanford). All stores may be procured at 

 Mafeking, Buluwayo, Palachwe (Khama's country), 

 and Johannesburg, and, except for battery and 

 personal outfit, the sportsman will find it quite 

 unnecessary to encumber himself with stores and so 

 forth until reaching these places. If, however, he 

 meditates a shooting trip from Benguela or Mossa- 

 medes, in Portuguese West Africa, he may be 

 advised to carry stores with him. At Walfish Bay, 

 German South -West Africa, stores, equipment, 

 waggons, oxen, and horses can generally be procured. 

 At Mossamedes, waggons and oxen and assistance 

 can be hired from the Trek-Boers settled in that 

 region. It is a mistake to use a heavy military 

 saddle for hunting purposes. The lighter the saddle, 

 consistently with strength, the better. Plenty of 

 dees, for fastening on saddle-bas:s, water-bottle, field- 



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glasses, and so forth, should be affixed. 



A small case of medicines, preferably as much as 

 possible in tabloid form (Burroughs Wellcome & Co.) 

 should not be forgotten. 



As to personal gear, flannel shirts, breeches of 

 velvet cord, khaki, or gabardine (an excellent thorn- 

 resister), stout pig-skin gaiters, and strong brown 

 lace-up boots are necessaries of existence. Some men 

 prefer field-boots to gaiters. In wet weather they 

 certainly have advantages. Spurs should not be too 



