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portable than any other water 

 supply vehicle which, however, 

 are also necessary in case of far 

 off and prolonged trips. Then, 

 also, one should have a small 

 emergency supply box with him. 

 containing such articles as a pair 

 of forceps or pincers, camphor and 

 carbolic acid salve; pennyroyal 

 oil, turpentine, a roller bandage 

 and absorbent cotton, adhesiive 

 plaster roll, permanganate of 

 potasium, strychnia tablets, la- 

 paetic pills,needleandthread, mos- 



Larger insects, such as wasps, 

 bees spiders, scorpions and oth- 

 ers, rarely attack a person if not 

 molested directly, but sting, they 

 will and badlv, too, if once en- 

 raged especially t h e wasps. 

 There exists several distinct varie- 

 ties of prairie and forest wasps, 

 and of the latter, the large, red- 

 ish-brown, or nearly red, colored 

 hornetwasp, supplied with fear- 

 fully large stinging implecif-nts, 

 is the most vicious and most pain- 

 ful insect. During a late outing. 



Boat Fishing on the Guadalupe River 



quito netting ; and, also, soap, 

 towels, underwear, stockings, slip- 

 pers, etc., all of which may cinie 

 very handy at times. Select a 

 shady clear place, and remove all 

 rubbish around camp. A good 

 hammock comes very handy, also, 

 as well as a folding tent and a 

 small collapsible table, etc. Be- 

 fore retiring to sleep, use some of 

 the camphor or pennyroyal oil — it 

 will help to ward oii' the mos- 

 quitos and ticks and other insects 

 — more or less always present in 

 forest bottoms close to a rivulet. 



in June, in the beautiful forest 

 bottom of the Guadalupe valley, 

 near Seguin, large swarms of these 

 vituperous hornets were met with, 

 and one of our party coming ac- 

 cidentally in. contact with a hornet 

 breeding nest, was desperately at- 

 tacked and stung ,and the wounds 

 were so painful he had to quickly 

 undress and plunge himself into 

 the close-by Guadalune river to 

 escape the enraged red wasps and 

 alleviate the fearful burning, 

 stingio? wounds. 



Other mean little insects molest- 



