APPENDIX I 



NOTES ON PERSONAL OUTFIT 



THOSE who visit the country usually encumber them- 

 selves with much unnecessary and expensive outfit. 

 I will now put down certain things essential to health and 

 comfort, and others advisable but not essential. 



First as to clothes. Warm Jaeger underclothes are 

 necessary; they can indeed scarcely be too warm. These 

 must come from home and should be many sizes too large, 

 as most tentboys who always do your washing, shrink them 

 in the process. During long sefaris, ticks and small gray 

 invisible fleas will, spite of all you can do, make their home 

 in these garments. Ordinary washing, these pests seem 

 to enjoy. Have your underclothes boiled from time to 

 time, putting a little ammonia in the water. Avoid tick 

 country, after and during the rains. Have your boy pick 

 you off immediately you come in from march or hunting. 

 Wear tight puttees and a tight belt. Use ammonia in a very 

 hot bath. Tick bites neglected cause trouble to some people. 



Never go round your tent, much less outside it, in bare 

 feet. Always wear slippers, or better, boots. If you feel 

 irritation in your feet, have your boy at once examine them. 

 A neglected jigger may spoil your trip. Jiggers are more 

 common south of Nairobi, and round Nakuru and Nai- 

 vasha, than in less frequented places. 



Protect your feet by the thickest stockings you can buy. 

 Better have some one knit half a dozen pair of long, heavy 

 woollen stockings. They will outlast a year's marching, 

 keeping your feet warm when they are wet, and cool and 

 unblistered when the marching is over broken rock, and 



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