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of carrying them done up in tin and water. These remarks 

 apply with equal force to the popular Boston fruit canned 

 beans. All provisions should be put up in good strong canvas 

 bags, or in wooden or tin boxes. Never risk paper packages 

 on a camping trip, or you will very likely find your sugar, 

 salt, coffee, beans and other staples sadly mixed. 



WHISKY. 



Don't take any. The guide, packer or cook is sure to 

 steal it and get drunk, if you don't keep it under lock and 

 key, and you and your friends are better off without it. 



There are many other points that I should like to treat of 

 but have not space to do so here. I must therefore beg 

 modestly to refer the reader to my book, "Camping and Camp 

 Outfits," wherein exhaustive details are given on all points 

 pertaining to this subject. 



CHECK-LISTS. 



Of Articles Constituting Camp- Outfits, for Various Seasons 

 and Under Varying Conditions. 



With reference to the first of the following lists it may be 

 noted that a strong man can carry fifty pounds ten or fifteen 

 miles a day comfortably, when accustomed to this kind of 

 labor. If traveling by canoe the only addition necessary to 

 make to the loads, in case of portages, would be the canoe and 

 paddles. If no long portages are to be made, a photograph 

 camera should be added to the list, and a few luxuries may 

 be taken along; but they should be such as are light, and 

 take but little room. 



The total weight of such articles, enumerated in the second 

 list, as are to be carried on the pack-animals, is about 320 

 pounds, or 160 pounds to each animal. With these loads 

 they will travel comfortably twenty to thirty-five miles a day. 

 As the provisions and cartridges are used up, skins, heads or 

 other trophies may be added to the load in their stead. No 



