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this was followed by heavy rain, in which I landed 
at Quebec on October 1. The next day, Friday, 
was also wet and cold. It looked and felt as if 
winter had set in. Leaving England late in Sep- 
tember one generally finds the delightful Indian 
summer on arriving in Canada, so this rain was 
a great disappointment. However, I have never 
allowed the weather to interfere with any of my 
trips by land or sea, so I secured my license, tent, 
bedding, and cooking utensils, also a collapsible 
sheet-iron stove, which, with a few lengths of pipe 
weighed very little. In putting one of these stoves 
up, four pegs are driven into the ground and it 
is set upon these legs. The sides and ends are then 
opened, and a shovel full of sand put inside to keep 
them up. The top fits on like a lid, and when the 
pipe is attached to this a roaring fire may be had 
in a few minutes. It is necessary to have a key 
put into one of the lengths of pipe, otherwise the 
fire will burn too fast. So many people secure 
camping outfits in Quebec, that any sporting sup- 
ply shop can give one a list of his requirements 
and furnish them in thirty minutes. I ordered 
provisions for three men for ten days, and when 
shown the list added a few extras. 
When one is travelling where the supplies must 
be carried by man, part of, or all the way, it behooves 
him to be careful about his selection. Saturday was 
another cold and wet day so I added considerably 
to my kit and with everything from a sou’wester to 
waterproof boots of a moccasin type, might have 
been outfitting for a Cape Horn voyage instead of 
