WHAT BECAME OE A YOUNG PLANTER’S OUTFIT. 
neatly made, but, to make up for this, you will pick 
out suitable articles to answer the circumstances of your 
case and requirements, and haviug only a small stock 
on hand it will be the easier looked after and kept 
in repair, and all temptations to steal obviated. Of 
course, this opinion is merely given as a general rule, 
for there can be no doubt that there are small mis- 
cellaneous articles which can be with benefit taken out 
from home, but this is altogether dependent on one’s 
private habits and tastes, and does not enter under 
the general term of outfit. On being consulted as to 
an outfit, our general reply has been : — “ Take as few 
clothes as possible, and as many sovereigns as you 
can honestly and fairly lay hands on.” You may find 
the former unsuitable for your position or calling — but 
not the most remote chance of your being so fixed 
with the latter. No chance of their becoming un- 
fashionable and out of date; they can be kept in very small 
compass, in places where boys and dhobis have no 
right to intrude, and the best of the argument is, 
that the sovereigns can always command clothes, and 
bring their value in clothes, where the clothes can- 
not command sovereigns, and most certainly seldom or 
never bring their original value in sovereigns. All 
planters are aware of the very inferior quality of 
country-made shoes. We were once on a time sharp 
on this point — and took out a large supply of fine 
double-soled English-made shoes made to measure^ 
They were all tried on before being packed up — even 
used for a few days, and were found to fit to a 
nicety. But it was afterwards found, owing to the 
beat, that the foot was enlarged and the upper 
leather of the shoes dried up and hardened, and the 
fine stock of shoes were all of no use : with a dozen 
pairs of English-made shoes and boots in the house 
— all new, made to measure, and made to fit — we were 
reduced to apply toold Jansz, the Gam pola shoe-maker, to. 
make as fast as he possibly could, for two pahs of common 
and soft black leather shoes, and to be quick about 
it, for that we had not a shoe to put on ! For when 
one lives in a warm climate the feet get swollen 
and tender and smart under leather. 
If any one steps into the back verandah of a bun- 
galow, not far from Kershaw’s bridge, he will see 
standing in the kitchen back verandah — at least a few 
years ago it was there — a large wooden box painted 
brown, well-fastened on its edges and corners with 
iron damps; Tfiat box has been three times rounid 
the Cape of Good ; Hope It has done duty in a 
gum tree slab hut, in the wilds of Australia, as a table. ; 
on its hospitable lid many a repast of boiled mutton, 
has been served, many a tin pannikin has stood upon 
