The Journal of a Sporting Nomad 
to have a tent, leaving the natives to choose 
their own form of roof covering. 
A collapsible lantern, which can be bought 
cheaply, and which burns candles, is both 
comfortable and economical ; for a candle lighted 
in the open gutters out so fast as to be almost 
worse than useless. 
The items most affecting personal comfort are 
bedding and clothing. I take two of the heaviest 
blankets I can buy—for years I used nothing 
but Jaeger’s, finding them excellent in every 
way—and I have two large waterproof ground- 
sheets, one to put on the ground, the other to 
cover me, if it is very wet or very cold. These 
are well worth the extra weight involved, and 
should be provided with brass eyelets all round 
them to enable them to be laced up securely with 
rope. 
The clothes should be woollen, one change 
for a trip.of short duration, such as I am de- 
scribing. Two huckaback towels are a necessity. 
I have purposely specified ‘‘ two frying-pans.” 
On one occasion we lost our one and only pan— 
a real blow. Two take up but little room, and 
are of great assistance. 
All these hints are for those whose pockets 
are, like mine, of slender dimensions, where the 
absolute necessaries only must be taken, and 
where the means of transport are your own and 
our companions’ shoulders. In places where 
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