440 THE LAND OF THE LION 
Have a night blanket fitted to your mules or ponies. 
Green waterproof canvas on the outside, a warm blanket 
on the in; with one of these coverings carefully put on, 
your mount will not suffer, even in heavy rain, and you 
will be saved the trouble of carrying a special tent for them. 
Horses, and more especially mules, have a maddening way 
of getting outside a tent, when they should be inside. 
The first zebra or kongoni you shoot, see that your men 
make a good rawhide rope for your mule with it. If 
you do not insist on this, skin after skin will disappear, 
and your mount will never have a secure picket rope. 
Ordinary ropes are heavy to carry, and soon wear out. 
When you are in country you are not certain of, never let 
your syce lead the pony or mule down to the water. He 
has nothing else to do in camp but look after his animals, 
see that he brings up water to the mule. Many a valuable 
animal is lost by such carelessness. Tsetse flies are often 
near water. 
Medicines. A Burrough’s and Welcome’s soldier’s 
medicine chest, weighing about six pounds, is the best thing 
of its kind to be had, but the stock it contains is too dainty 
to meet the needs of a large sefari. Take it, of course, 
but take besides: 
Epsom salts for the men, bandages in plenty, a bottle 
of calomel tablets, bottle of castor oil, iodoform, mus- 
tard leaves, Dover’s powders, rolls of sticking plaster, 
some surgeon’s needles, a strong syringe, plenty of car- 
bolized cotton, two or three pound cans of vaseline, bottle of 
permanganate crystals, and if you are ambitious, a forceps. 
Bring plenty of quinine in tablets (hydroclor is best). 
You should know how to wash out a wound, fix a ban- 
dage, or set a bone. 
Have a fixed time (as soon as luncheon is over I found 
the most convenient) at which you expect the men to come 
to you with their ailments. Encourage them to come, 
