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before alluded to. When once these creatures have buried 

 their heads in your flesh they should be removed with care. 

 If you leave their heads in, an ugly sore may be the result. 



Arrived in camp, let it be your first care to see that the 

 horses are watered, hobbled and turned into the best ' feed ' in 

 the neighbourhood ; see that the packs are secured against 

 rain, and that an ample supply of wood is cut for use during 

 the night. In dealing with Indians don't do too much for 

 yourself, however competent and willing you may be. The 

 majority of Indians are very apt to encourage a man willing to 

 help himself, by allowing him to do all the work. 



Give men and horses a complete rest every Sunday, and 

 utilise part of the day for looking through and taking stock of 

 your stores. 



There is still another list of necessaries to be added to 

 those already given, but luckily it is only a very short one. As 

 illness may possibly visit the hunter's camp, he must be prepared 

 for it, and a few simple remedies for the ills most likely to befall 

 him are worth providing. 



Quinine for low fevers, aperient medicine of some kind 

 (podophyllin pills for choice), and an ounce of laudanum in 

 case of diarrhoea or colic, together with a few mustard plaisters, 

 a roll of india-rubber bandaging, and some diachylon plaister 

 for cuts, have always proved a sufficient medical outfit for any 

 party to which I have belonged. 



The quinine, if employed as a preventive measure, may be 

 taken in three-grain doses, but in case you are too late to ward 

 fever off double the dose. 



Of laudanum twenty drops in water, when in pain or purged, 

 is a fair dose. 



But with average luck no big game hunter ever gets ill until 

 he returns to civilisation and high feeding. Then, alas ! his 

 troubles begin. 



