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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



Arms and Ammunition, including 2 smooth bores, 3 

 rifles, a Colt's carbine, and 3 revolvers, spare fittings, 

 &c, and 3 swords. Each gun has its leather bag 

 with three compartments, for powder-flask, ball, caps, 

 patches, &c. 100 lbs. gunpowder (in 2 safety copper 

 magazines and others); 60 lbs. shot; 380 lbs. lead 

 bullets, cast of hardened material at the Arsenal, Bom- 

 bay, placed in boxes 40 lbs. each for convenience of 

 carriage, also to serve as specimen boxes, and screwed 

 down to prevent pilfering ; 20,000 copper caps ; wad- 

 ding. 



The Baloch are armed with matchlocks, shields, 

 swords, daggers and knives. They have for ammuni- 

 tion — 40 lbs. gunpowder (4 kegs) ; 1000 lead bullets ; 

 1000 flints for slaves' muskets, and are to be followed by 

 about an equal quantity of ammunition. 



Camp Furniture. — 1 sepoy's rowtie ; 1 small (gable- 

 shaped) tent of two sails joined, to cover and shelter 

 property in this land of perpetual rains ; 1 table and 

 chair ; 1 tin Crimean canteen, with knives and forks, 

 kettle, cooking-pots, &c; bedding, painted tarpaulin cover, 

 2 large cotton pillows for stuffing birds, 1 air pillow, 2 

 waterproof blankets (most useful), 1 Maltese blanket 

 (remarkably good), and 2 other blankets ; 1 cork bed, 

 with 2 pillows, 3 blankets, and mosquito net. The 

 Goanese have thick cotton padded mattresses, pillows, 

 and blankets, and all the servants have some kind of bed- 

 ding. 3 solid leather portmanteaus for clothes and 

 books; 1 box, like an Indian petarah, for books; 1 

 patent leather bag for books, washing materials, diaries, 

 drawing-books, &c. ; 1 small couriers' bag, for instru- 

 ments, &c. ; 5 canvas bags for kit generally ; 3 mats, 

 used as carpets. 



