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water, I had also to take rifles, ammunition, tents, 

 camp kit and cooking utensils; hatchets and slashers 

 to cut down trees, make roadways, and construct rude 

 bridges over streams; rope to assist in crossing 

 rivers, and the thousand odd things necessary for 

 the complete support of a body of men entirely cut 

 off for some months from all civilization and sources 



"ROPE TO ASSIST IN CROSSING RIVERS." 



of supply. Of course money would be useless 

 among the tribes of the interior, so I had to take 

 as currency bales of amerikani (cotton sheeting), 

 coils of brass, copper and iron wire, beads of many 

 colours and shapes to suit the fashions among the 

 belles of the different nations, and many little 



