306 CLOTHING 



operations are in progress, a couple of dozen 

 small spring clothes-pegs are necessities and, 

 used with the indispensable ball of strong string 

 to serve as a clothes-line, prevent the linen 

 from being laid to dry in the grass from which 

 it is practically certain that it will come back full 

 of ants, microscopic ticks, and other unpleasant 

 forms of insect life. 



At the height of the winter or dry season, it 

 is at times necessary, in traversing unusually 

 waterless portions of the country, to carry a 

 supply of drinking water sufficient for one 

 or two days. For this purpose one or more 

 of the useful, wickered aluminium demijohns 

 obtainable at Messrs. Lawn & Alder's and else- 

 where, are indispensable, and great care should 

 be taken on no account to permit the key for 

 a moment to leave your possession. 



With regard to clothing, it will be found most 

 convenient to carry it in a good-sized canvas 

 lock-up hold-all, which should be absolutely 

 waterproof in fact as well as in reputation, and 

 provision must be made for the exigencies of two 

 distinct climates. There is, to begin with, the 

 sunny warmth of the daylight hours, when the 

 thermometer may ascend to 90° or 95°; then 

 there is the sharp cold of the brilliant starry 

 nights, when it may easily fall to 45° or lower. 

 For hunting, marching, or daylight work nothing, 

 to my mind, is so satisfactory as a shirt or 

 " jumper " of improved khaki-coloured, sun- 

 resisting cloth, about the same thickness as good 

 quality khaki, the same colour, and worn over 



