Chapter III. 
of inquisitive children and adults. Here the cases were opened, 
and their contents verified and inventoried. The whole camp 
outfit, including tents, beds, sleeping hags, stools, tables, baths, 
cooking utensils, the hermetically sealed cases containing 
clothing ; the photographic materials, and the materials for the 
zoological, botanical and mineralogical collections ; the arms and 
ammunition, formed 114 loads weighing about 47 lbs. each, all 
numbered and so marked as to be immediately recognizable. 
A HILLY BIT OF ROAD. 
The commissariat formed 80 additional loads of the same 
weight, each one of which contained rations for 12 persons 
during one day. The supplies had been laid in on a calculation 
of a sojourn of 40 days above the snow-limit, and of a period of 
the same length below, to allow for the journey from Entebbe 
to the mountains and back. The rations were in tin boxes, 
soldered and enclosed in thin wooden boards. The only differ¬ 
ence between the high-mountain rations and those for the lower 
regions was that the latter were without tinned meat, because 
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