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them good enough. I also use a combined lancet and scalpel for 

 finer work on small animals, or about the eyes, nose, and ears. 



For a preservative, nothing will beat Montagu Browne's " burnt 

 alum and saltpetre " mixture (see his " Practical Taxidermy "), and I 

 get mine made by Miller & Co. in Kandy. 



A compass is useful if you are not an expert " jungle man." 



A pedometer comes in very handy if you want to keep an 

 account of the distance tramped day by day. 



A glass is not much use in Ceylon low country, but might come 

 in handy at times. I usually carry a 6 -power " Goerz " prismatic 

 monocular small, portable, and powerful enough. Splendid maps, 

 on the " i -inch to the mile " scale, can be got at the Survey Office 

 in Colombo, and I strongly advise anybody going on a trip to get 

 the sheets of the district he is going to travel in. Nesting sauce- 

 pans save bulk and weight, and allow of a good number being 

 carried. For kettle and teapot I use a couple of lidded tins, like 

 deep narrow saucepans, one fitting inside the other, the outer one 

 being the kettle, and the inner one the teapot. Hanging by a hook 

 to the inside of the lid of the teapot is a small wire cage to contain 

 the leaf, which can be removed when infusion is complete, leaving 

 about half-a-gallon of excellent tea of uniform strength. 



The " Pump " filter is a grand thing, though it won't tackle 

 very dirty water, which at once clogs the " candle." However, in 

 the jungle, the dirtiest water can be fairly well cleared by using that 

 curious seed known to the Singhalese as ingmnee gedee, and to the 

 Tamils as teyttan kottey. 



You rub the seed down on a stone, or inside of a " chatty," with 

 a little water, putting the rubbings into the dirty water, in which, 

 when stirred up, all the solid dirt precipitates to the bottom, 

 enabling the clear water to be poured off and filtered. Most low 

 country Singhalese carry some of this seed with them always. I 

 never particularly mind, however, the cleanness or otherwise of the 

 water when making tea. 



Candles I find more handy than oil lamps, but I do not use 

 much light of any sort, generally trying to have my dinner by day- 

 light if I get in early enough from my evening round. A small 

 alarm clock will be an advantage to a man who cannot wake auto- 

 matically at the time he wishes, for you may be perfectly certain 

 your servants won't wake you as they sleep like corpses when in the 

 jungle, and are lost for want of "cock-crow" and the "muster 

 tom-tom." 



Don't forget a packet of a dozen boxes of wooden matches, to 

 be carefully kept dry. 



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