OUR EQUIPMENT 5 



times. Cherrie's father was born in Ireland, and his 

 mother in Scotland ; they came here when very young, 

 and his father served throughout the Civil War in an Iowa 

 cavalry regiment. His wife was of old Revolutionary 

 stock. Father Zahm's father was an Alsacian immigrant, 

 and his mother was partly of Irish and partly of old 

 American stock, a descendant of a niece of General 

 Braddock. Miller's father came from Germany, and 

 his mother from France. Fiala's father and mother 

 were both from Bohemia, being Czechs, and his father 

 had served four years in the Civil War in the Union 

 Army — his Tennessee wife was of old Revolutionary 

 stock. Harper was born in England, and Sigg in 

 Switzerland. We were as varied in religious creed as 

 in ethnic origin. Father Zahm and Miller were Catholics, 

 Kermit and Harper Episcopalians, Cherrie a Pres- 

 byterian, Fiala a Baptist, Sigg a Lutheran, while I^ 

 belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church. 



For arms the naturalists took 16-bore shotguns, one 

 of Cherrie's having a rifle barrel underneath. The 

 firearms for the rest of the party were supplied by 

 Kermit and myself, including my Springfield rifle, 

 Kermit's two Winchesters, a 405 and 30-40, the Fox 

 12-gauge shotgun, and another 16-gauge gun, and a 

 couple of revolvers, a Colt, and a Smith and Wesson. 

 We took from New York a couple of canvas canoes, 

 tents, mosquito-bars, plenty of cheese-cloth, including 

 nets for the hats, and both light cots and hammocks. 

 We took ropes and pulleys, which proved invaluable on 

 our canoe trip. Each equipped himself with the clothing 

 he fancied. Mine consisted of khaki, such as I wore 

 in AMca, with a couple of United States Army flannel 

 shirts and a couple of silk shirts, one pair of hob- 

 nailed shoes with leggings, and one pair of laced leather 



