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to a stranger. It is therefore advisable to have at hand tinned 

 soup, cocoa, fresh bread and biscuits. A small quantity of sultana 

 raisins and dried figs eaten with biscuits have, especially in that 

 climate, more sustaining power than a large quantity of meat and 

 cooked food. The currants grown in the country are even better, 

 producing in the system, as they do, a sense of comforting warmth 

 which dispenses with the use of spirituous stimulants. 



Mules should be engaged for the baggage. In short excursions, a 

 man to carry cartridge-bags and lunch-basket is well worth his 

 p^^j^ pay, which is never exorbitant. The same man, if well 



Animals and chosen, may serve as a guide ; but never be misled by 

 unauthenticated assurances of the presence of plentiful 

 game. Most country people will say what they believe to be 

 agreeable to a stranger, in the hope that it may prove true. A 

 spare quantity of English sporting gunpowder and cartridges will 

 be found extremely useful as a present to guides and to peasants who 

 may render services. 



Rise early and be on the move before sunrise. The best shooting 

 is over by 10 a.m. ; and it is necessary to rest and have a siesta in 

 the middle of the day, when the heat is exhausting, and may prove 

 dangerous even to the dogs. Moreover, little game is then moving ; 

 it reappears after three or four, when operations may be resumed till 

 sunset. 



FISHING 



In a country which is practically a succession of islands and 

 peninsulas, fishing becomes a most important factor in the industry 



