Chapter III. 



of inquisitive children and adults. Here the cases were opened, 

 and their contents verified and inventoried. The whole camp 

 outfit , including tents, heds, sleeping bags, stools, tables, baths, 

 cooking utensils, the hermetically sealed cases containing 

 clothing ; the photographic materials, and the materials for the 

 zoolocrical, ])otanical and mineraloo-ical collections : the arms and 

 ammunition, formed I 14 loads weighing about 47 lbs. each, all 

 nmnbered and so marked as to he immediately recognizable. 



A }m,I,Y BIT OF KOAD. 



The commissariat formed 80 additional loads of the same 

 weight, each one of which contained rations for 12 persons 

 during one day. The supplies had been laid in on a calculation 

 of a sojourn of 40 days above the snow-limit, and of a period of 

 the same length below, to allow for the journey from Entebbe 

 to tlie mountains and back. The rations were in tin boxes, 

 soldered and enclosed in thin wooden boards. The only differ- 

 ence between the high-mountain rations and those for the lower 

 regions was that the latter were without tinned meat, because 



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