12 OUT TO LAKE ILE A LA CROSSE 



Province of Saskatchewan, I secured my canoe — 

 a light 18 -foot chestnut cruiser — and completed 

 the carefully selected outfit which I was to take 

 with me, and which had been minutely calculated, 

 governed by the knowledge that I must travel 

 light, and that I was setting out from the mer- 

 cantile world for a year or more. 



To anyone about to leave on a distant journey 

 into country uninhabited, or habited only by 

 primitive natives, the question of the essential 

 things that are to comprise an outfit is of great 

 importance, and therefore I give below a com- 

 plete list of what I considered I must take, and 

 how I contrived to pack it, in view of the nature 

 of my work and the months of canoe and sled 

 travel that lay before me. 



OUTFIT FOR EXPEDITION 



Hunting equipment 



12-foot split cane fishing-rod. Hunting knife and sheath. 



12 bore shotgun. 8-inch mill file. 



•303 Ross rifle. Foot-rule. 



Mauser revolver and belt sheath. 48-foot length of rope. 



Revolver cartridges, 50. Field glasses. 



Rifle cartridges, 100. Pocket compass. 



Shotgun cartridges, No. 10 Camp axe. 



dust-shot, 100. Few wire nails. 



Shotgun cartridges, various Canoe pitch. 



shot, 200. Ball of twine. 



Small red cottom bag, containing : 

 Specimen labels. Needles and thread, 



Address labels. Safety pins. 



Indelible pencils, 5. Pins. 



Lead pencils, 5 H.B. Buttons. 



Wool for darning. 



