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from damp, and will have no chance of making dinner a horror, 

 as the ordinary sulphur matches loose amongst provisions have 

 a habit of doing. Even for matches a stout well-corked bottle 

 is better than the best tin. 



Packs are generally arranged as two side packs, and one top 

 pack, and square side packs (in wooden boxes) with blankets, 

 tents, and such like bundles for top pack seem most convenient. 

 Round side packs are apt to shift. 



Above all things see that your side packs are about equal 

 n weight and hang about level. The contents of the packs 

 lust depend to a great extent upon the tastes and means of 

 le hunter, but for simple men travelling in a difficult country 

 ;ie list of necessaries given below should suffice for two 

 -portsmen, two gillies and a cook during an expedition of two 

 months' duration. 



I have allowed a gillie or hunter to each sportsman, as well 

 .15 a camp cook between them, although my own experience 

 has been that your greatest happiness and best success begin 

 when you have learned to hunt alone. That two make more 

 noise than one ; that your own eyes (not another's) are the 

 ^est eyes for you to use ; and that a white man with practice 

 :s better than any red skin, are articles of faith which will be 

 approved by experience. 



However, of this more in another place. The accompany- 

 ing list of stores, &c., has been based upon the lists of things 

 used by the writer in former expeditions, in none of which 

 (at any rate since 1883) has there been any running short of 

 supplies. 



Provisions and other requisites for Jive 7nen for two months 



