232 PEDESTRIAN 8 OUTFIT. 



It is unnecessary to repeat the information which 

 has been already given. The traveller will there- 

 fore find, in the following pages, merely an outline 

 of his route, with references to the fuller descrip- 

 tions in the preceding part of the volume. 



Before starting, the pedestrian should see that he 

 is well provided with travelling gear. He has, no 

 doubt, a guidebook and map : but has 

 tbI^'/outfit. ^ e a compass? If he will make in- 

 quiries in any dale he visits, or at any 

 farmhouse he passes, he will hear of tourists who 

 have lost their way, many of them getting into 

 difficulty and danger, and having to spend the 

 night upon the mountains. Every house has its 

 tale of one or more strangers coming in cold and 

 exhausted after such nights, and seeking help; 

 or of others only saved from such a fate by having 

 met with the farmer, or some one of his men, who 

 has directed them into the right road to their 

 destination. Often, again, a stranger may be heard 

 to relate how he has left one valley with the inten- 

 tion of crossing to another, and, after hours of 

 walking, has at last found himself in the same 

 from which he started, or even in one west of it, 

 when he thought he was going east. The sequel to 

 all these stories is that the stranger had no compass. 

 A sudden fog may perplex even the best guides ; 

 then also a compass is a necessary help. " I never 

 should ha' gotten 'em down safe, if one of the 

 gentlemen had not had a compass," said one of the 

 guides in relating an adventure among the mists on 

 Scawfell ; and plenty more might give similar 

 testimony. 



Tluck-soled boots are also necessary ; and if they 



