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prove to me that certain procedure in clearing, planting, care, etc., is 
vital in the localities under consideration — it does not follow that, given 
a different locality, soil, and climatic conditions, other methods might 
not prove necessary. 
In spite of an innate belief in my own preparedness for the Mexican 
pilgrimage, when ready to start 1 lost no time in consulting persons who 
had gone before as to material equipment for the journey. The advice 
received solved itself into the purchase of a broad-brimmed soft hat, 
neglige shirts, light flannel underwear, a “navy bag” (a dress suit case 
on horseback, being a source of worry and a constant temptation to land- 
ing on one's head), and a pair of long-legged moosehide “snake boots/* 
To this was added later a Colt’s revolver and holster, to be worn in the 
unsettled country south of the City of Mexico ; a rubber poncho coat that 
looked like a long, tan colored nightshirt, a linen suit, and for medicines, 
a box of cascarets, a bottle of chloranodyne, and a pint of two grain 
.-A 
CANE FIBER RAINCOAT. 
