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and repacking only damages your clothes. If yon expect to have to 
go into civilisation straight from camp, you can leave a portmanteau 
with town clothes at the base ready for yon to pick up on your return. 
For underlinen you require flannel shirts and trousers, with or with* 
out undervests and drawers, you should always, however, have these 
with you as often it gets cold enough to wear them. If you wear 
knickerbockers and long stockings you must wear leather leggings as 
well, because the mosquitoes will get through the strongest stockings. 
I found the most suitable dress was flannel or cloth trousers with my 
socks pulled over them. Anything made of wool can be got through 
by mosquitoes if close to your skin. They cannot, however, get through 
linen or calico and this is worth remembering. A loose flannel coat, 
which you probably take off in the boat whilst casting, and a belt, with 
a broad brimmed straw hat, bought often locally for a shilling or so, 
will complete your costume, not forgetting a good pair of greased 
shooting boots. If you are afraid of the flies you can buy some armlets 
to put on your wrists, kept in their place with elastics. And you can 
have a gauze all-round veil round your hat weighted to hang on the 
shoulders and kept away from your face by a whalebone hoop. But 
1 think these are more trouble than they are worth. For rough 
weather you require a cap and for very wet stormy weather a 
sou-wester is most useful. A good old loose waterproof that you can 
wear when casting is a necessary item, for you have so much sitting in 
the boat that it is as well to keep dry if you can. Some men wear 
gauntlets to protect the wrists from flies. I will, however, deal with 
this subject under the heading of “ mosquitoes and sandflies.” 
As regards the rest of your kit, all you require is a spare shooting 
suit or two and some spare underclothing, socks, etc., also a few towels. 
For putting on when you come in in the evening some soft white shirts 
with collars attached are useful and a pair of light boots or shoes. 
A spare pair of shooting boots, a pair of strong slippers, and an old 
pair of tennis shoes are necessary and a pair of waterproof sea boots 
invaluable in bad weather, either for wear in the boat or about the 
camp. 
I think grey flannel clothes are more suitable than white, they are 
not so conspicuous to the fish and they do not show the dirt. 
Bring a mosquito net with you, with a linen top and large enough 
for a three-foot bed, with brass rings sewn in at the four top corners. 
This will serve either in the hut or camp. 
Your usual dressing kit kept to reasonable limits, some soap, dubbin, 
mosquito preparations, eau-de-cologne, toothpowder and vaseline com¬ 
plete your requirements. One great coat or cape of some kind in 
addition to waterproof should be taken. It is useful on the bed and 
may be required for warmth even in the summer months. Do not take 
any large package as it does not go well in a canoe. In kit-bags as I 
have described, a hold-all, valise for bedding and a small dressing bag 
in addition to your rods and fishing gear should be ample. I had a tea 
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