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chisels and gauges, bradawls and gimlets, turnscrew, files, turkey stone for 

 skinning tools, &c., screw wrench, wire plyers, nails (assorted 3 in.-i in.), 

 screws (assorted), screw hooks (invaluable in cabin for hanging clothes, &c., on), 

 copper wire, thin and thick. Small but strong spade for cutting trenches 

 round tents, &c. ; mine is 30 in. long, blade 7 in. x 5 in., the steel socket reach- 

 ing nearly to the handle. 



Guns. — Cartridges Nos. BB, 5, 8, and dust, in brass cases. Insist on the 

 paper over wads being of different colours, so that the sizes can be at once 

 recognised. Gun-cleaner and mops, oil, vaseline, gun-cloths. 



Pair of field-glasses of 8 or 12 power. 



Ball of rope same strength as tent ropes ; one of thick, and one of thin 

 string. 



Cooking apparatus. — Two " Rechaud Lang" travelling spirit-stoves, larger 

 size, price 2s. 6d. each, including saucepan. These are the best cooking stoves 

 I know of, and I have used them repeatedly. During our stay in Iceland in 

 1894, which lasted six weeks, the whole of the food for two persons was cooked 

 on them, using two gallons of methylated spirit. I have six oblong cases of 

 pewter metal with brass screwed stoppers, each holding half a gallon (one is 

 sometimes devoted to whisky), which are made to just fill the bottom of one of 

 the Iceland boxes named above. Do not use any stove requiring paraffin ; if 

 it escapes among the food everything it touches is spoilt ; spirit evaporates and 

 leaves scarcely a trace. If there is a draught in the tent affecting the stove, 

 cook inside one of the Iceland boxes. 



Methylated spirits. Small funnel for filling stoves. Extra stove wicks. 



Two square dripping tins 8 in. x 6 in. for frying over stove. 



Tea-pot. 



Enamelled iron mugs, pint and half-pint made taper to nest. 



Enamelled iron plates. Knives, forks, spoons, in proportion to number of 

 members of expedition. 



Two tin-openers, corkscrews. 



Matches. 



Tea-cloths, &c., for " washing up." 



Compass, aneroid, thermometers. 



Writing paper, pens, ink, pencils, luggage labels, indiarubber bands, money 

 bags, stick-on labels, bottle of fish-glue, diaries, egg note book, bird-skin note 

 book. 



Books, charts, and maps relating to the country to be visited. 



Saunders' " Manual of British Birds," Dresser's " Manual of Palaearctic 



