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an adze^axe, hammer, large and small screw*drivers, small saw, a few assorted 
fiJes, a shoemaker s haft containing needles, thread, awls and wax, pliers, bradawls, 
a leather punch, large scissors, small vice. A few screws, nails and tacks; and 
ice brads for boots. A “ Bonser ” pocket tool case is a good thing to have. A 
large water-proof sheet is always useful. 
Stores. Here again the personal equation must be taken into consideration, 
but I might suggest compressed vegetables, jam, cheese, oatmeal, Liebig or Bovril, 
army rations, Lazenby's soup squares, Maggi, Erbswurst, and Kopfs’ soups, 
onions, potatoes, cooking stuff, biscuits, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, “ sparklets ” 
maccaroni, cornflour, dried fruits, Borwick’s baking powder, condensed milk, 
sauce and condiments, salt, butter, bacon, lard in tins, mustard oil in tins, 
nee, call, curry powder; also such tinned provisions as individual tastes suggest. 
Candles, bar-soap for washing dusters, <$c. For certain places nearly all these 
things must be carried, together with kerosine or some vegetable illuminant 
oil, or candles ; for others, the list may be judiciously pruned as local 
supplies may justify. Liquor is a subject on which I will presume to offer 
no advice, merely contenting myself with a few hints. Brandy is a medical 
comfort, and a tot of some sort of spirit after the day’s work is advisable. 
IF a flask is carried, I recommend Britannia metal mounts ; how acquisitive 
all natives are, to be sure! For servants, provisions must be carried, and 
