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shirts (check), one pair thick socks, one pair drawers, one flannel 
shirt, two pocket-handkerchiefs, a light India-rubber coat or a thick 
woollen one, two bosoms and collars to go and come with, one 
napkin, pins, needles, thread, one blanket, best gray, seven feet 
long. 
Tent , — six by seven feet, and four feet high in middle, will do; 
veil and gloves and insect-wash, or, better, mosquito-bars to cover 
all at night; best pocket-map, and perhaps description of the route ; 
compass; plant-book and red blotting-paper; paper and stamps, 
botany, small pocket spy-glass for birds, pocket microscope, tape- 
measure, insect-boxes. 
Axe, full size if possible, jackknife, fish-lines, two only apiece, 
with a few hooks and corks ready, and with pork for bait in a 
packet, rigged; matches (some also in a small vial in the waist¬ 
coat pocket); soap, two pieces; large knife and iron spoon (for 
all); three or four old newspapers, much twine, and several rags 
for dishcloths; twenty feet of strong cord, four-quart tin pail for 
kettle, two tin dippers, three tin plates, a fry-pan. 
Provisions. — Soft hardbread, twenty-eight pounds ; pork, six¬ 
teen pounds; sugar, twelve pounds j one pound black tea or three 
pounds coffee, one box or a pint of salt, one quart Indian meal, to 
fiy fish in; six lemons, good to correct the pork and warm water; 
perhaps two or three pounds of rice, for variety. You will prob¬ 
ably get some berries, fish, &c., beside. 
A gun is not worth the carriage, unless you go as hunters. The 
pork should be in an open keg, sawed to fit; the sugar, tea or cof¬ 
fee, meal, salt, &c., should be put in separate water-tight India- 
rubber bags, tied with a leather string; and all the provisions, and 
part of the rest of the baggage, put into two large India-rubber 
bags, which have been proved to be water-tight and durable. Ex¬ 
pense of preceding outfit is twenty-four dollars. 
An Indian may be hired for about one dollar and fifty cents per 
day, and perhaps fifty cents a week for his canoe (this depends on 
the demand). The canoe should be a strong and tight one. This 
expense will be nineteen dollars. 
Such an excursion need not cost more than twenty-five dollars 
apiece, starting at the foot of' Moosehead, if you already possess 
or can borrow a reasonable part of the outfit. If you take an In¬ 
dian and canoe at Oldtown, it will cost seven or eight dollars more 
to transport them to the lake. 
