WHERE AND HOW 



camping. There is substantially nothing in the 

 navigation involved that the Camera-man and I 

 have not accomplished in a light canoe. We have 

 camped for weeks at and beyond the more distant 

 points named, with no better protection than a 

 cheese cloth mosquito bar with a waterproofed 

 canvas top. The entire value of the clothing I 

 wore, from linen cap to canvas shoes, was less 

 than five dollars. The cost of the simple cooking 

 outfit, bought at a country store as we started, 

 wouldn't have paid for a dinner in the city. The 

 necessary expense of supplies for such a trip is 

 really negligible. Matches, salt, pepper, twenty 

 pounds of corn meal, a piece of fat pork for 

 greasing the griddle, and a gallon of Florida 

 syrup will set one back about a dollar and pro- 

 vide the groceries required for a trip of weeks. 



A hatchet, a few cents worth of hooks and line, 

 a pair of grains, and the cheapest kind of a sin- 

 gle-barrel shotgun or rifle with cartridges should 

 be carried. Rust would eat one barrel of your 

 costly fowling piece while you were cleaning and 

 oiling the other. The few implements named are 

 keys to a well-filled larder from which fish of 

 many varieties can always be taken. One can 



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