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shirt which is wringing wet from perspiration. 

 A pair of binoculars on your belt completes your 

 personal outfit. No knife is required. Your 

 Burman trackers carry a ' dah,' which is all that 

 is wanted. 



As regards one's followers in the jungle, I 

 always take two coolies, whether I have one or 

 two trackers with me. The trackers must go light 

 if they are to work properly. I take a cartridge- 

 bag, in which I carry two or three handkerchiefs, 

 a small compass, a snake-bite lancet (with a few 

 crystals of permanganate of potash contained in 

 the screw top), a cap and three spare cartridges. 

 This bag I carry myself. Five cartridges fit 

 into an outside left-breast pocket of my coat, 

 which is sewn into folds each to contain a 

 cartridge. Two cartridges are kept handy in a 

 lower pocket ready to slip into the rifle. Each 

 coolie has a split bamboo over his shoulder. At 

 the end of one bamboo is slung the men's food, 

 beetal boxes, &c. At the other end are my 

 towel — containing flannel shirt, socks and stalking 

 boots — and a Burberry slip-on coat reaching 

 below the knee. This, by the way, is an absolute 

 necessity in the rains, and a comfort at any time. 

 It is light and proof against anything short of a 

 tropical downpour. One can sit on it instead of 

 on the damp ground, and if belated, or if one 

 intends to spend the night in the jungle, it can 

 either be rolled up to form a pillow or worn as a 



