HUNTER'S AND TRAPPER'S OUTFIT. 15 



Colt's pistol, forty-four caliber, with belt and 

 scabbard. Each man would also require one 

 pocket compass and one headlight. 



How to use the outfit. After you have 

 found the stream you want to trap, start in as 

 near the head as you can well use your boats, 

 and there make your camp. 



Let one trapper take the upper end of the 

 swamp and the other the lower, each man trap- 

 ping for three miles on his part of the swamp, 

 and for two or three miles on each side of the 

 stream. In this way about six miles of ter- 

 ritory can be trapped at the first camp, and 

 each man can make the circuit in a day, bring- 

 ing his game in his boat to the camp. Always 

 take your dinner with you on starting out, 

 and reset your traps before you return to 

 camp, as in this way you will lose neither 

 your dinner nor your time ingoing to and fro. 

 Always search small streams and lakes well 

 on both sides, which will often have to be 

 done by leaving your boat and going afoot. 



