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We slung the kettle and two metal cups by the 
handles. 
We took a change of socks, and so on—‘for the 
evening.’ I could not find anything better than a pair 
of canvas shoes, but Hyland had some Norwegian fur 
boots I had got for him in Vardé, and I am afraid I 
greatly envied him these. 
Also I carried my telescope, flask and cup, pocket 
microscope and test-tubes, knives, watch, revolver, 
money, note-books, sponge-bag, soap, tooth-powder 
and brush. 
Then we had of course our guns, and 125 cartridges 
each. 
We weighed these things with the steel-yard, except 
the cartridges. Reckon each cartridge at 2 oz. and it 
comes to 154 Ibs. a-piece ; of food we had 18 lbs. a-piece; 
of extra clothing about 5 lbs., and our guns weighed 
between 6 and 7 lbs. each. Altogether we each carried 
a good big 50 lbs. weight, and rather more. 
We intended to try and walk in india-rubber boots. 
But as I was very doubtful about the wisdom of this, we 
each carried at starting a pair of shooting-boots slung 
round our necks. These, however, we soon discarded. 
Now this looks, as one reads it over, a funny list of 
things. But I think it is worth giving, for this reason, 
namely, that with the exception of the boots, some of the 
medicine, and many of the cartridges, there was literally 
not an item too much or too little. If I had to take the same 
