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However, I am not a teetotaller, and have not the 

 least doubt that when one is feeling jaded, alcohol 

 supplies a definite need. When in ordinary health, 

 however, I regard lime-juice as the best drink for the 

 sportsman, partly because the vegetable ingredient 

 supplements the scarcity of vegetable diet upon most 

 big-game shooting grounds. During my entire trip I be- 

 lieve I consumed two quarts of brandy, two of gin, and 

 two dozen quarts of lime-juice, mostly in combination 

 with sparklets. I also smoked a pipe, though cigars 

 and cigarettes had been my usual practice, because 

 I believed that thereby the temptation to indulge in 

 excessive tobacco-smoking during many months of 

 solitude would be largely removed ; and this I found 

 to be actually the case, and doubt whether I smoked 

 a pound of tobacco in every two months. Most 

 European stores can be bought in the large towns, 

 Khartoum possessing shops equal to any in Alla- 

 habad. However, I fail to see that any economy 

 is likely to arise from local purchase, and recommend 

 the sportsman to follow my example and have the 

 bulk of his stores exported from England. I attach 

 a list of the stores that I purchased, mainly from 

 the Army and Navy Stores, in London, and actually 

 consumed in the country. It will be seen that I 

 eschewed all tinned meats and fish, and if the sports- 

 man does not turn up his nose at dried meat, stewed 

 or curried, I advise him to follow my example and 



