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with many pockets. Very light underclothes are good. 

 If one's knees and legs are unfortunately tender, knicker- 

 bockers with long stockings and leggins should be worn ; 

 ordinary trousers tend to bind the knee. Better still, 

 if one's legs will stand the exposure, are shorts, not 

 coming down to the knee. A kilt would probably be best 

 of all. Kermit wore shorts in the Brazilian forest, as he 

 had already worn them in Africa, in Mexico, and in the 

 New Brunswick woods. Some of the best modern 

 hunters always wear shorts; as for example, that first- 

 class sportsman the Duke of Alva. 



Mr. Flala, after the experience of his trip down the 

 Papagaio, the Juruena, and the Tapajos, gives his judg- 

 ment about equipment and provisions as follows: 



The history of South American exploration has been 

 full of the losses of canoes and cargoes and lives. The 

 native canoe made from the single trunk of a forest giant 

 is the craft that has been used. It is durable and if lost 

 can be readily replaced from the forest by good men 

 with axes and adzes. But, because of its great weight 

 and low free-board, it is unsuitable as a freight carrier 

 and by reason of the limitations of its construction is not 

 of the correct form to successfully run the rapid and bad 

 waters of many of the South American rivers. The 

 North American Indian has undoubtedly developed a 

 vastly superior craft in the birch-bark canoe and with it 

 will run rapids that a South American Indian with his 

 log canoe would not think of attempting, though, as a 

 general thing, the South American Indian is a wonderful 

 waterman, the equal and, in some ways, the superior of 



