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Quixote,' ' Henry Esmond,' ' The Compleat Angler,' 

 William Shakespeare, and * Robinson Crusoe.' But 

 chacim a son gout, as was said to me by a Belgian 

 officer whom we met in the Congo ; the red-letter 

 days in his life were those when the monthly mail 

 regularly brought him Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday. 



In conclusion I may remark that it is better by far 

 to take too many things than to take too few. One 

 porter more or less makes very little difference to the 

 management of a caravan, and the extra load may 

 make a vast difference to the comfort of the traveller. 

 A tin of flour too much or an extra pound of tobacco 

 is a thousand times better than one too few. You 

 may throw away the things you do not want ; but 

 what you have not got, that you must do without. 



As one who has failed lamentably in this respect — 

 my journals are always pitifully meagre and frag- 

 mentary — I would advise the keeping of a very 

 complete journal of everything seen and heard. 

 Nothing is too trivial to be noted, and one thing 

 written reminds you afterwards of a score of others. 

 The pleasure in looking back on a journey, with a 

 memory which weeds out the disagreeable things, 

 is in some ways even greater than the delight of the 

 journey itself. 



' No man doth safely appear abroad, but hcwlio can abide at home.' 



