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efficient head-covering is the excellent, soft felt 

 double terai hat. This clings to the head in the 

 densest undergrowth, and affords the fullest pro- 

 tection from the sun. On the wider plains, where 

 at times the heat is rather trying, great relief 

 may at once be obtained by filling the crown with 

 fresh green grass or leaves — care being taken to 

 see that no pernicious insects find their way in at 

 the same time. For night use, one or two com- 

 fortable soft caps should be included, and, for 

 tonsorial purposes, a pair of barber's hair-clippers. 



With regard to the many miscellaneous articles 

 of equipment with which it is necessary to be 

 furnished, the importance of a really serviceable 

 field-glass is difficult to exaggerate. I know 

 opinions vary upon the best type for the purpose, 

 but personally I have found that a single Zeiss 

 reflex glass, magnifying eight diameters, is better 

 than the binocular glasses now so generally 

 carried. In appearance the glass I have carried 

 for some years with the greatest satisfaction looks 

 like half an ordinary pair of Zeiss glasses, which is 

 precisely what it is. Carried in a small, neat case, 

 it is so light that it need never be out of the 

 hunter's possession, and comes up to the eye in one 

 hand much more easily than a pair of glasses, and 

 never needs readjustment. A reliable compass 

 may be of great service, as also an electric torch 

 with one or two spare dry batteries. 



Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome & Company of 

 Snow Hill, E.C., pack most excellently arranged 

 and selected medicine chests of very small 

 dimensions for travellers to any part of the world, 



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