APPENDIX B 



THE OUTFIT FOR TRAVELLING IN THE 

 SOUTH AMERICAN WILDERNESS 



South America includes so many different kinds of 

 country that it is impossible to devise a scheme of equip- 

 ment which shall suit all. A hunting-trip in the panta- 

 nals, in the swamp country of the upper Paraguay, offers 

 a simple problem. An exploring trip through an un- 

 known tropical forest region, even if the work is chiefly 

 done by river, offers a very difficult problem. All that 

 I can pretend to do is to give a few hints as the results 

 of our own experience. 



For bedding there should be a hammock, mosquito- 

 net, and light blanket. These can be obtained in Brazil. 

 For tent a light fly is ample ; ours were brought with us 

 from New York. In exploring only the open fly should 

 be taken ; but on trips where weight of luggage is no ob- 

 jection, there can be walls to the tent and even a canvas 

 floor-cloth. Camp-chairs and a camp table should be 

 brought — any good outfitter in the United States will 

 supply them — ^and not thrown away until it becomes 

 imperative to cut everything down. On a river trip, 

 first-class pulleys and ropes — preferably steel, and at any 

 rate very strong — should be taken. Unless the difficulties 

 of transportation are insuperable, canvas-and-cement 

 canoes, such as can be obtained from various firms in 

 Canada and the United States, should by all means be 



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