The Journal of a Sporting Nomad 

 to have a tent, leaving the natives to choose 

 their own form of roof covering. 



A collapsible lantern, which can be bought 

 cheaply, and which burns candles, is both 

 comfortable and economical ; for a candle lighted 

 in the open gutters out so fast as to be almost 

 worse than useless. 



The items most affecting personal comfort are 

 bedding and clothing. I take two of the heaviest 

 blankets I can buy for years I used nothing 

 but Jaeger's, finding them excellent in every 

 way and I have two large waterproof ground- 

 sheets, one to put on the ground, the other to 

 cover me, if it is very wet or very cold. These 

 are well worth the extra weight involved, and 

 should be provided with brass eyelets all round 

 them to enable them to be laced up securely with 

 rope. 



The clothes should be woollen, one change 

 for a trip of short duration, such as I am de- 

 scribing. Two huckaback towels are a necessity. 

 I have purposely specified " two frying-pans." 

 On one occasion we lost our one and only pan 

 a real blow. Two take up but little room, and 

 are of great assistance. 



All these hints are for those whose pockets 

 are, like mine, of slender dimensions, where the 

 absolute necessaries only must be taken, and 

 where the means of transport are your own and 

 your companions' shoulders. In places where 



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