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6 wood-choppers or Burmese " dahmas " ; these are found 

 very useful for breaking up the various animals, cutting down 

 jungle, chopping firewood, and a hundred other purposes. 

 A pestle-and-mortar for the cook. 



A couple of medium-sized iron, copper, or brass cooking 

 pots for servants' and hunters' use. 

 Carving-knife, fork, arid sharpener. 



1 2 ordinary soft metal butchers' or other knives for skinning 

 and cutting up animals shot. Two or three stones for sharp- 

 ening same. 



12 leather chaguls or water-bottles for yourself, trackers, and 

 gun-bearers, and for camp use. I have never seen these in either 

 Rangoon or Mandalay, and doubt very much whether they 

 are to be bought there. Messrs. Greet Bros., Cawnpore, India, 

 supply them, and a letter to them from England with instruc- 

 tions to forward them on to Scott and Co., Rangoon, or any 

 other agent, who should in turn be directed to pay the bill 

 and take delivery pending the arrival of the sportsman, would 

 facilitate matters. 



i sandstone bottle-filter and 2 pocket-filters, 

 i zinc pail or bucket. 

 I meat saw. 



Stores. 



Branson's extract of coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar (lump and 

 ordinary), tinned soups, ox tongues, sausages, bacon, Crosse 

 and Blackwell's square tins, yellow ; order the very thin ones 

 only. Swiss condensed milk, sweetened or unsweetened, 

 tinned fruits, jam, butter (Esbensen's Danish), ghee or 

 clarified butter for cooking purposes, salt, pepper, mustard 

 (Crosse and Blackwell's, Durham), dried prawns, if you can 

 get them, chutney, pickle, flour, onions, potatoes. " Bovril " or 

 Brand's Essence of Beef should also be taken, as a stand-by in 

 case of illness when living on slops is imperative. Curry powder 

 and paste (Barries' Madras is the best) and the ingredients 

 which go to make it up. The following should also be 

 included for your servants and followers : chillies, " ngapee," 

 rice, salt, dried fish, pumpkins, red and white (" buthees 

 and shwepyaungthees "). The rice, " ngapee," salt fish, and 



