HINTS ON OUTFIT AND EXPENSES. 361 



With regard to medicines, I found the majority 

 of human diseases can be roughly divided, for 

 travelling purposes, as follows : 



Sores, bruises, and accidents Elliman (horses), sticking-plas- 

 ter, iodoform, carbolic oil. 



Dysentery, diarrhoea Ipecac; chlorodyne. 



Constipation Cockle's pills. 



Fevers Quinine ; antif ebrin . 



I think these remedies are the most useful for 

 a non-medical person who has to treat a caravan. 

 There are, however, many small medicine boxes 

 which are highly recommended by others, e.g., the 

 Congo chest. The fault of these is that they are 

 too varied, and there is, as a rule, too little of the 

 most useful things. 



Clothes are apart of one's individuality, but most 

 people certainly take out too many. Light tweed 

 and khakee are, perhaps, the best for ordinary 

 walking purposes, while a well-shrunk flannel suit 

 for the camp is a great luxury. Flannel shirts to 

 the amount of six for a year, and as many socks 

 as one can find space for, should be taken. One 

 also requires one suit of fairly respectable appear- 

 ance if one arrives at a European station. I do 

 not believe in sun-helmets, and have found that 

 an umbrella and double terai-hat is by far the 

 most generally useful head-gear. Solar topees 

 are a nuisance in rain and in forest or scrub, but 

 perhaps one should be taken. 



Boots are a very important point. If I were 



