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tents, weighed a little less than sixty pounds, 
making a load for one porter. Including a 
few volumes carried in the various bags, so 
that I might be sure always to have one with 
me, and Gregorovius, read on the voyage 
outward, the list was a§ printed on page 406. 
It represents in part Kermit’s taste, in part 
mine; and, I need hardly say, it also repre- 
I had a slicker for wet weather, an army 
overcoat, and a mackinaw jacket for 
cold, if I had to stay out over night in the 
mountains. In my pockets I carried, of 
course, a knife, a compass, and a water¬ 
proof matchbox. Finally, just before leav¬ 
ing home, I had been sent, for good luck, 
a gold-mounted rabbit’s foot, by Mr. John 
Head of the wildebeest bull, shot by Mr. Roosevelt. 
sents in no way all the books we most care 
for, but merely those which, for one reason 
or another, we thought we should like to 
take on this particular trip. 
I used my Whitman tree army saddle 
and my army field-glasses; but, in addi¬ 
tion, for studying the habits of the game, I 
carried a telescope given me on the boat by 
a fellow traveller and big-game hunter, an 
Irish hussar captain from India—and inci¬ 
dentally I am out in my guess if this same 
Irish hussar captain be not worth watching 
should his country ever again be engaged 
in war. I had a very ingenious beam or scale 
for weighing game, designed and presented 
to me by my friend, Mr. Thompson Seton. 
L. Sullivan, at one time ring champion of 
the world. 
Our camp was on a bare, dry plain, cov¬ 
ered with brown and withered grass. At 
most hours of the day we could see round 
about, perhaps a mile or so distant, or less, 
the game feeding. South of the track the 
reserve stretched for a long distance; north 
it went for but a mile, just enough to pre¬ 
vent thoughtless or cruel people from shoot¬ 
ing as they went by in the train. There was 
very little water; what we drank, by the 
way, was carefully boiled. The drawback 
to the camp, and to all this plains region, 
lay in the ticks, which swarmed, and were 
a scourge to man and beast. Every even- 
