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leather pockets to carry your watch; your money, 

 your matches and tobacco, your compass — any- 

 thing you please. They are handy and safe. The 

 tropical climate is too "sticky" to get much comfort, 

 or anything else, out of ordinary pockets. 



In addition, you supply your gunbearer with a 

 cartridge belt, a leather or canvas carrying bag, 

 water bottle for him and for yourself, a sheath knife 

 and a whetstone. In the bag are your camera, 

 tape line, the whetstone, field cleaners and lunch. 

 You personally carry your field glasses, sun glasses, 

 a knife, compass, matches, police whistle and note- 

 book. The field glasses should not be more than 

 six power; and if possible you should get the sort 

 with detachable prisms. The prisms are apt to 

 cloud in a tropical climate, and the non-detachable 

 sort are almost impossible for a layman to clean. 

 Hang these glasses around your neck by a strap 

 only just long enough to permit you to raise them 

 to your eyes. The best notebook is the "loose- 

 leaf" sort. By means of this you can keep always 

 a fresh leaf on top; and at night can transfer your 

 day's notes to safe keeping in your tin box. The 

 sun glasses should not be smoked or dark — you 

 can do nothing with them — but of the new am- 

 berol, the sort that excludes the ultra-violet rays, 

 but otherwise makes the world brighter and gayer. 



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