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khaki. For footwear a few of the party swore hobnailed boots but most 
of us wore rubber-soled work shoes ( a heavy-soled canvas-topped sneak) 
We always had to carry a w.p. coat of slicker for use over these at a 
moments notice, for the rain or hail often came unannounced. At night 
we comaealy wore all the clothes we had and then failed to keep 
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warm, for the temperature frequently fell^to near the freezing point, 
(on three or four occasions below the freezing point) and we had nothing 
but a single thickness of w/p. cotton cloth between us and the rain, 
hail, snow and frigid mountain gales, as the case might be. Only on 
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errs nights, as I recall it, did I go to bed with less clothing on than 
I wore in the daytime, and /that was our worst nights with the midges. 
When on trips away from camp we always want in small groups of two 
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or three, each c .< m-b e n carrying a camera a- s well -as collecting 
am each -neater a knapsack, emergency rations, matches, a compass, 
and a whistle. Before starting into the woods we arranged a code of 
whistle signals and each one, including the "guides'*,always carried 
a whistle. One .whistle meant "where are you", and the reply was one 
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whistle. Two whistles meant "coming". Three whistles meant "help". 
After we had been in the woods a day or two v/e discovered that one 
very important signal had been overlooked, addordingly we added four 
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whistles, which meant "grub is ready". This signal wa s repeated. 
I am glad to say that the signal for "help" had to be sounded only once 
on the entire trip, and that almost the last day of the trip. It was 
followed by aftexeiting hour. It happened about this way. ^ 
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We were returning from the Mt. Albert trip^and'Jabout to make the 
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trip from Plaque a Malade v (at the foot of the Mt. Albert trail) to 
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Grande Fosse, a/di stance- &f some five-miles, where v/e were to stay over 
night, and then proceed the next day on a 28 mile hdke to the seacoast , 
