CHAPTER XXVII 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES 



Waterproof valise — Mattress — Sleeping bag — Strip of waterproof sheeting 

 — Repairing bag — Knives — Adze — Axe — Spring balance — Binoculars 

 — Telescope — Barometer and thermometer — Buckets — Rope — 

 Lantern — Saddlery — Brief bag — Lui — Chargal — Mussuk — Shikari's 

 belt — Camera — Jharans — -Stores box — Napkins — White numdah — 

 Mail bag — Alpenstock — Stationery — Maps— Yakdans — Kiltas — 

 Medicines — Prices of Srinagar articles. 



VII. — Miscellaneous 



The miscellaneous articles which a sportsman would 

 find useful have many of them been mentioned already. 

 The following list completes, I think, the number, sup- 

 posing him to be alone. Very little more would be 

 required if he were accompanied by his wife : — 



I waterproof valise to hold bedding. 



1 cork or other mattress. 



4 blankets 6| feet by 5 feet. 

 * I sleeping-bag lined with sheepskin. 



2 pillows. 



I brown waterproof sheet, large, 

 and of strongest make. 



1 thin strip of waterproof to go 



round bedding. 



2 broad straps, with buckles, for 



bedding. 



I repairing bag, containing : — 2 

 shoemaker's awls, cobbler's wax, 

 strong thread, housewife (with 

 pincushion, ordinary needles, 

 darning needles, strong cotton, 

 darning yarn, buttons of all 

 kinds on clothes, scissors, pen- 

 knife, button-hook), small hand- 

 vice, pair of pliers, hammer 

 wrench, wire nails, brad-awl, 

 wire. 



