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of servants and boats. Past lessons had borne fruit, 

 and this time experience presided so well on the 

 occasion of our preparations that, extraordinary as it 

 may seem, we had neither forgotten anything which 

 was indispensable, nor taken anything which was 

 superfluous. Nothing forms the mind better than 

 suffering and privation. I have returned to Europe 

 from each journey which I have undertaken with a 

 very accurate list of the things which I had forgotten. 



M. C. BERTRAND. M. E. DE BORELY. 



After the 1894-97 expedition the list was a blank. 

 That is saying much for the care with which all 

 purchases and preparations had been made, and with 

 which all precautions had been taken. De Borely 

 and Bertrand, who were not sportsmen, were charged 

 with the administration of the expedition. The former 

 had under his charge the diary and the accounts ; the 

 latter looked after the provisions, the contents and 

 the arrangement of the packages, food for the Euro- 

 peans, and shared with me the care to be devoted to 



