APPENDIX 



Spectacle frames of non-corrosive white metal, not 

 steel, are the proper sort. 



To clean your guns you must supply plenty of 

 oil, and then some more. The East African gun- 

 bearer has a quite proper and gratifying, but most 

 astonishing horror for a suspicion of rust; and to 

 use oil any faster he would have to drink it. 



Other Equipment. All this has taken much time 

 to tell about, it has not done much toward filling 

 up that tin box. Dump in your toilet effects and 

 a bath towel, two or three scalpels for taxidermy, a 

 ball of string, some safety-pins, a small tool kit, 

 sewing materials, a flask of brandy, kodak films 

 packed in tin, a boxed thermometer, an aneroid 

 (if you are curious as to elevations), journal, tags 

 for labelling trophies, a few yards of gun cloth, and 

 the medicine kit. 



The latter divides into two classes: for your men 

 and for yourself. The men will suffer from certain 

 well defined troubles: "tumbo,"or overeating; diar- 

 rhoea, bronchial colds, fever and various small injuries. 

 For "tumbo" you want a liberal supply of Epsom's 

 salts; for diarrhoea you need chlorodyne; any good ex- 

 pectorant for the colds; quinine for the fever; per- 

 manganate and plenty of bandages for the injuries. 

 With this lot you can do wonders. For yourself 

 you need, or may need, in addition, a more elabo- 



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