HINTS ON TRAVELLING AND CAMP EQUIPMENT. 21 3 



Thick warm gloves are by no means to be despised when the thermometer is below 

 freezing point, and long gauntlets will be found most useful in some of the lower valleys, to 

 protect the hands and wrists from the mosquitoes and 'pipsd ' flies, whose bites sometimes 

 become really serious. 



I need hardly say that flannel only should be worn next the skin, and that a good sup- 

 ply of thick woollen socks should be taken : the socks issued to soldiers wear better than any 

 other sort I know. 



Finally, a good thick ' ulster ' with a hood will be found invaluable when you have to 

 lie for hours on an exposed hill-side waiting for game to move, and if you always make one 

 of your gun-bearers carry it or a good plaid, you may pass a night on the hill with comfort 

 instead of being half-frozen to death. 



SERVANTS. 



Much of the comfort of a shooting expedition depends upon having good servants, and 

 these are unfortunately most difficult to obtain. The best servants are frequently unwilling 

 to give up the pleasures of their home, and the attractions of the bazar, for a rough life in 

 the jungles ; even with the prospect of increased pay. 



Fortunately the usual staff of Indian servants is not required in the hills, and two Maho- 

 medan servants, who can cook and make themselves generally useful, should be enough to 

 bring up from the plains. Strong active men, not liable to fever, should be chosen ; and I 

 strongly recommend the sportsman to engage them some time before he starts on a trip, or 

 he may find that he is saddled, when too late to remedy it, with some incompetent and lazy 

 scoundrel, whose misdeeds will not only cause loss and inconvenience, but ruin the finest 

 temper ! 



If you are fortunate enough to secure good servants treat them liberally. For a long 

 trip I should recommend that each man should be provided with a waterproof sheet, a couple 

 of blankets, at least one warm suit of clothes, and a pair of 'path. ' For Thibet each man 

 should have a ' poshtin' or sheepskin coat. 



The clothes should be made up under your own superintendence, and should consist 

 of a short jacket and lose ' paijdmds! If left to their own devices, servants will infallibly 

 buy long coats in which all the cloth is expended in the skirts, and skin-tight breeches 

 which will split and wear out in the course of a few weeks. 



Servants should not be permitted to take their own thin white garments with them 

 as they are utterly useless in the hills, and you will probably find that they are used for 

 cleaning your plates and cooking pots ! 



For two men of the same class very few cooking pots should be required, and these 

 should be made to fit into each other. 



Men can always be obtained locally for such work as bringing water, cutting 

 wood, &c. 



If a really hardworking intelligent man, who can clean guns, skin birds and other 

 animals, and make himself generally useful, can be obtained, he is well worth engaging as 



