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HINTS TO TRAVELLERS. 
Plenty of good ordinary paper. Reporters 5 note-books ruled (not 
“metallic, 55 for prepared paper is not strong enough, and the 
leaves of such books are very liable to become torn out and lost; 
they are also damaged by wet). They should be all of one size, 
say 7 inches by 4£, or larger, and numbered. A leather pouch, 
secured to the waist-belt, having a flap buttoning easily over, to 
hold the note-book in use. 
Two (or more) MS. books of strong ruled paper, foolscap size, each 
with a leather binding; the pages should be numbered, and 
journal observations, agreements, and everything else of value, 
written in them. 
Some sheets of blotting-paper cut up, and put here and there in the 
books. 
Transparent cloth and paper for tracing. 
Plenty of brass pens and holders; also fine drawing-pens (steel 
crow-quills—Brandauer 5 s Oriental pens are very good) and holder. 
A. W. Faber’s H.H.H.H.H.H., F, and B pencils. 
Penknives. India-rubber cut up into pieces. 
Ink-powders of a kind that do not require vinegar. Red ink. 
Paints for maps, viz., Indian ink, sepia, burnt-sienna, lake, cobalt, 
gamboge, oxgall, in a small tin case. 
A dozen sable paint-brushes of different sizes. 
Materials for “ squeezes, 55 if travelling where inscriptions may have 
to be copied (see Vol. II., p. 131). 
Boohs , Maps , 
Paper’s Practice of Navigation; or, in default of this, either Inman’s 
Navigation and Tables (bound together), or Norie’s Navigation. 
Chambers’ Mathematical Tables are very comprehensive and useful. 
Molesworth’s Pocket-Book of Engineering Formulae (London: E. & 
F. N. Spon). 
Shadwell’s Cards of Formulae (Potter, 31, Poultry, London); 
Bethune’s Tables for Travellers (Blackwood and Sons). 
With the help of either of these two latter publications, the traveller, 
who has a fair knowledge of mathematics, will thoroughly under¬ 
stand what he is about, and may, on emergency, dispense with some 
