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constant. The rest of the men were none too many to fill 

 in the gaps caused by sickness, to carry current supplies of 

 potio, to act as guard over caches, and to transport the few 

 trophies we could not do without. 



We figured a long time on the tent loads, but could not, 

 for African purposes, reduce them below fifty pounds each. 

 This accounted for an A-tent, with fly, 7x9, made with 

 ground cloth sewed on, and built to pitch with cross poles 

 sKpped inside a hem at either side. A certain weight of 

 material was necessary to withstand the sun and daily 

 handling by natives. 



The bed loads consisted of Hght X cots, thin cork 

 mattresses, and two blankets. One cannot sleep on the 

 ground in Africa; and the cork mattress was fighter than 

 another pair of blankets to go underneath one. With the 

 bed went a skeleton frame that supported either a canvas 

 bath or a canvas wash basin. One cannot take cold baths 

 in the tropics without danger of a congestion; and the 

 daily hot bath is a necessity. The folding camp-chairs 

 were of the fightest make, but repaid their transportation 

 as they would have done nowhere else but in the tropics. 



In the tin boxes, besides our personal effects, we carried 

 the medicine supply, the knife stones, extra parts for rifles, 

 five volumes each of the handy *' Everyman's Library," 

 writing materials, sewing kit, our Stonebridge folding candle 

 lanterns, and maps. My own personal outfit, outside what 

 I wore, was as follows: 



Clothes: A soft camp hat, two bandanas, one pair khaki 

 trousers for camp, five pairs of woollen socks, one pair shoe- 

 pac boots, one pair of moccasins, one waterproof cape, two 



