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half way down the leg and very wide — most 

 comfortable for night wear in the tropics), and 

 two or three cholera belts. If the sportsman 

 has suffered from dysentery, it is as well to wind 

 a puttie round the waist over the cholera belt at 

 night. This may sound like excessive wrapping 

 up and coddling ; but, as a matter of fact, if a 

 silk shirt and silk baumbies are worn, an additional 

 wrapper round the waist will not affect the com- 

 fort of the wearer even in the hottest weather. 

 Dysentery is such an awful scourge, and is so 

 hard to get rid of, that anyone who has suffered 

 from this complaint — the most trying of all 

 tropical diseases — will not neglect any necessary 

 precautions. One can shoot while suffering from 

 low fever, but dysentery puts a stopper on any 

 attempt to walk, much less to tramp the jungle. 

 As to stores, the following articles are neces- 

 sary. Condensed milk, jam, marmalade, butter, 

 biscuits (Swallow and Ariel's or Huntley and 

 Palmer's lunch biscuits are the best for camp), 

 tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, curry powder, potatoes 

 and onions. Lard in tins is better than ' ghee ' 

 for cooking purposes. Individual taste must 

 decide on further additions to this list if con- 

 sidered necessary ; but it must be remembered 

 that while tsaing ground can often be reached 

 with bullock-cart transport, for bison pack- 

 ponies or coolies will be required. The Burman 

 will carry nothing that he cannot sling on to 



