APPENDIX I 
NOTES ON PERSONAL OUTFIT 
HOSE who visit the country usually encumber them- 
selves with much unnecessary and expensive outfit. 
I will now put down certain things essential to health and 
comfort, and others advisable but not essential. 
First as to clothes. Warm Jaeger underclothes are 
necessary; they can indeed scarcely be too warm. ‘These 
must come from home and should be many sizes too large, 
as most tentboys who always do your washing, shrink them 
in the process. During long sefaris, ticks and small gray 
invisible fleas will, spite of all you can do, make their home 
in these garments. Ordinary washing, these pests seem 
to enjoy. Have your underclothes boiled from time to 
time, putting a little ammonia in the water. Avoid tick 
country, after and during the rains. Have your boy pick 
you off immediately you come in from march or hunting. 
Wear tight puttees and a tight belt. Use ammonia ina very 
hot bath. Tick bites neglected cause trouble to some people. 
Never go round your tent, much less outside it, in bare 
feet. Always wear slippers, or better, boots. If you feel 
irritation in your feet, have your boy at once examine them. 
A neglected jigger may spoil your trip. Jiggers are more 
common south ef Nairobi, and round Nakuru and Nai- 
vasha, than in less frequented places. 
Protect your feet by the thickest stockings you can buy. 
Better have some one knit half a dozen pair of long, heavy 
woollen stockings. They will outlast a year’s marching, 
keeping your feet warm when they are wet, and cool and 
unblistered when the marching is over broken rock, and 
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