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OUTFIT — INBTKU ME NTS. 
much uso. Tho soxtant and artificial horizon, thormo- 
motor, and compasses woro carriod apart. My ammuni- 
tion was distributed in portions through tho whole lug- 
gago; sb that, if an accident should hofall ono part, we 
could still havo othors to fall back upon. Our chief hopoa 
for food woro upon that; but, in case of failure, I took 
about twenty pounds of bonds, worth forty shillings, which 
still remained in tho stock I brought from Capo Town, a 
small gypsy tent, just sufficient to sloop in, a sheep-skin 
mantJo as a blanket, and a horse-rug as a bed. As I had 
always found that tho art of successful travel consisted in 
taking as low “impediments" as possible, and not for- 
getting to carry my wits about me, the outfit was rathor 
spare, arid intended to bo still more so when we should 
oome to leave the canoes. Some would consider it inju- 
dicious to adopt this plan ; but I bad a secret conviction 
that, if 1 did not succood, it would not bo for want of tho 
“knick-knacks" advortisod as indispensable for travellers, 
but from want of “pluck,” or because a largo array of 
baggage excited the cupidity of the tribes through whose 
country we wished to pass. 
Tho instruments I carried, though few, woro the best of 
their kind. A soxtant, by tho famed makers Troughton 
and Sims, of Fleet Street ; a chronometer watch, with a 
stop to the seconds-hand, — an admirablo contrivance for 
enabling a person to take tbo exact time of observations, 
it was constructed by Dent, of the Stran- . 01 ,) for tho 
Royal Geographical Society, and selected ‘hr tho service 
by tho President, Admiral Smytho, to whoso judgment and 
kindness I am in this and othor mattors dooply indebted- 
It was pronounced by Air. Macloar to equal most chrono- 
meters in performance. For those excellent instruments 1 
havo much ploasuro in recording my obligations to my 
good friond Colonel Steel, and at the samo tirno to Mr. 
Macloar for much of my ability to uso thorn. Bosidos 
these, I had a thormomotor by Dollond ; a compass from 
the Cape Observatory, and a small pocket ono in addition; 
