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found that they get too heavy when saturated with rain, and 

 were not only easily torn but rotted very soon from damp and 

 mildew. A second and smaller tent should, if possible, be 

 brought, for not only the comfortable housing of your servants 

 in damp weather, but the stowing away of various articles 

 liable to be destroyed by the rain, which often overtakes one 

 without the slightest warning. If there are villages where 

 you can put up, tents are scarcely required, as there are 

 zayats, or a Burman will give up his house for a very slight 

 present. 



The success of the whole expedition, in fact, depends on 

 the health and comfort of your servants and hunters. A 

 dozen pockets of various depths and sizes should be sewn 

 on all round inside the walls of the tent, as they are very handy 

 as receptacles for all sorts of things brushes, comb, sponge, 

 binoculars, novels, razor, strop, note-books, etc. Loops for 

 attaching various articles to the walls and keeping guns in an 

 upright position against the sides of the tent should also be 

 added. Four loops fixed up inside the roof of the tent in such 

 a way as to allow of a mosquito-net being rigged up over the 

 cot are also useful when poles are not used. Four double- 

 texture waterproof sheets 8x8 with eyelets; a long arm camp 

 folding-chair with a table fitting in at the back, which may be 

 used not only for writing on but for dining purposes as well. 

 These are the most useful chairs that were ever made, 

 originally invented, I believe, many years ago in Maulmain by 

 an officer in Government service now holding a prominent 

 position in Rangoon. These chairs may be purchased in 

 the workshop of the Rangoon or Maulmain Jails for Rs.i2 or 

 Rs.i4. 



A small folding camp -table and stool would also be 

 useful. 



A zinc bath tub or a block-tin metal box shaped like a tub, 

 made by Jones and Co., with a cane wicker framework basket 

 fitted inside, which serves also as a trunk for holding clothes,- 

 should also be taken. The removal of the lid and the wicker- 

 basket which fits inside the box, together with all it contains, 

 converts it into an ordinary tub. Should mule transport be 

 used, however, a tub could not be taken. For my own part, I 



