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when not in use. Such a box should be carried in the 

 pocket habitually, so as to preclude any chance of its 

 being forgotten, or left by accident. 



The map should show the larger streams and their 

 more prominent tributaries. The position of each camp 

 should be located on the map as accurately as possible, 

 and the line of each day's .travel, and the probable 

 position of the evening camp, should be marked in pencil 

 on the map before starting each morning. Where several 

 persons are journeying or hunting together, the maps of 

 each should be a fac-simile of the other, and the person 

 directing operations should see that each day's march is 

 marked on each map before leaving camp, and that all 

 are marked alike. 



With these precautions, and the exercise of a little 

 common sense, individuals may wander off with perfect 

 safety on each side of the line of travel, or for miles 

 about the camp, hunting or sight-seeing. 



A knowledge of the characteristics of all streams is 

 a very important element in the comfort and pleasure of 

 plains travel. A stream is like a tree pressed fiat, except 

 that the branches never cross each other. The tribu- 

 taries are the branches. Each branch is a perfect tree in 

 itself, and all lead to the parent stem. The camp being 

 on a stream, a hunter may go up it or a lateral tributary, 

 and wander for miles on these or their tributaries, 

 knowing that whenever he wishes to return he has but 

 to go down the tributary on which he happens to be to 

 arrive finally at camp. Should his pursuit of game carry 

 him across a ' divide,' he has but to assure himself that 

 the new system of ravines into which he is about to 

 plunge belongs to some principal stream, as those he is 

 leaving. If so, going down any of these ravines will 

 bring him to the same main stream ; a little higher or 

 lower, but with the same certainty as to follow the one 

 he went up. 



Should the ' divide ' crossed lead to a system of ravines 



