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objects with the idea of which experience inspired me, 

 and for which I have not taken out any patent. 1 



I shall speak of the use of rockets, traps, Bengal 

 lights, phosphorus, etc., at the proper time and place. 

 As to the telescope which I carried, it was a very 

 powerful one, and had at the same time the advantage 

 of closing into a very small space ; it rendered me 

 great services in flat districts and elsewhere, and 

 more than once enabled me to discover in the distance 

 a village or animals. The night field-glass must, to 

 be good, be of short focus and wide-angled, the large 

 lens having at least eight times the diameter of the 

 small ones. How useful this instrument has been to 

 me will be seen later. 



Such, generally speaking, were the things which 

 formed my hunter's baggage. Naturally I do not 

 here speak of the considerable materiel which accom- 

 panied the expedition, necessitating, at the outset of 

 our journey, more than 300 carriers : an inventory 

 of it would occupy more that 200 pages. Suffice to 

 say that it was sufficient to meet all the necessities of 

 life of three Europeans for more than three years. In 

 this chapter there is only question of that which we 

 shall find in daily use in the hunting episodes which 

 I propose narrating. 



As will be seen iii the course of this work, I made 

 use continually of the photographic camera ; but, 

 photography entering rather into the domain of the 

 scientific results of the journey, I refer readers who 



1 For the model of a provision basket, see Du Cap au lac Nyassa, 

 p. 364. 



