WHAT WE CARRIED. 99 



chiefs, 1 towel, 1 washrag, 1 cake toilet soap, 1 gun 

 (rifle or rifle and shot), 1 jointed cleaning rod and oil, 

 1 light reel, 1 short trunk rod, 1 small fly book, extra 

 hooks, etc., 1 case needles, thread, buttons, 1 compass, 

 1 hunting knife, 1 rubber collapsible drinking cup, 1 

 pair slippers (heavy soles), 1 package paper, envelopes, 

 postals, pipes and tobacco, cigars, etc., and one good 

 field or opera grass. 



In addition to the above the writer took in a 

 "Ditty Bag" made from an ordinary shot bag the fol- 

 lowing medical supplies; sufficient for the whole 

 party : 25 sugar coated imp'd. co. cath. pills, 50 sugar 

 coated 2 gr. quin. pills, 50 i gr. morph. granules, i oz. 

 Norwood's Tr. Verat. Viridi, 2 oz. chloroform, 2 oz. fld. 

 ext. Ipecac, i oz. Tr. Dover's powder, 1 oz. oxide zinc 

 ointment, 1 roll rubber adhesive plaster 1 in. wide, 2 

 drachms stearate of zinc, 3 roller bandages, 1 hypoder- 

 mic syringe, \ oz. chlor. anodyne (Parke, Davis & Co.). 



Any physician will furnish specific directions for 

 the use of the above named remedies and appliances, 

 in case there is none in the party. The list given 

 embraces all that will be necessary, and the remedies, 

 if handled with a moderate amount of care and intel- 

 ligence, Avill meet most of the ills incident to camp 

 life in a northern climate. To this extra personal 

 baggage was added the author's case of 



