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cocoa, four dozen boxes of fusees, four pounds of 

 soda, soap, baking powder, one bottle of ink, 

 isinglass, vermicelli, six pounds of native tobacco 

 for presents, one measuring tape, carbolic acid, 

 chloroform, quinine, Warburgh's fever drops, 

 Holloway's ointment, laudanum, ammonia, hyasy^ 

 mus, one lancet, one pair of forceps, two dozen of 

 Indian solution, large tin of arsenical soap, heavy 

 hammer and two hundred long iron nails for peg- 

 ging-out skins, clyster pipe, two sets of shoes and 

 nails for each horse, three packing-needles and 

 thread, one burning-glass, binoculars, one set of 

 tools in leather case to roll up, three chaguls, or 

 leather water-bottles,* rods and spinning tackle, 

 four skinning knives, vaseline and camphorated- 

 vaseline, several books, not of a too light literature. 

 Clothes, etc. (for each person) : three pairs of sam- 

 bur skin boots, two pairs of English shooting boots, 

 three suits of shikar clothes, two hats (one helmet 

 and one topee), six pairs of woollen socks, two 

 dozen of handkerchiefs, six towels, six pairs of 

 pyjamas, two kummerbunds, one pair of gaiters, 

 eight flannel shirts the coats to be wadded down 

 the spine and across the shoulders ; two lanterns, 

 one cot, broad, long, and as light as possible ; two 

 waterproof sheets to cover the cot, camp wash- 

 stand and basin, one wicker-chair for dinner, one 



* The chaguls should be well seasoned but not greased. 



