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not greasy, antiseptic and efficacious. Anoint your face, neck and hands with 
“Muscatol” and you may sit up all night in a machan, fish all day, or repose 
in your tent with assured immunity from bites. It is really wonderful stuff. 
Oilskin coat,— The material should be fine twilled calico dipped three or four 
times in raw linseed oil with a little gold size or litharge in it (1 oz. to 1 pint oil) 
drying thoroughly between each coat in a current of air, and sheltered from sun 
and rain. Oilskins thus made are light and serviceable and last for years. 
Payments .—Make all payments to beaters, villagers, coolies and shopmen, 
and dispense all bucksheesh personally. This saves immense trouble to yourself 
and those who come after you. 
Pipertay .—'The Prickly Pear answers admirably for helmets, boots, saddles 
or anything that has to be pipeclayed. Cut up and bruise the hearts and boil 
with sufficient water to cover ; let it simmer for two hours after boilings; strain 
and mix the pipeclay or “ Blanco” with the liquid in the ordinary way. It 
will not come off and soil the clothes 
Pull-through, The .—Drop the plummet in at the breech and pull out from 
the muzzle. 
Revolver, how to blue .—Dissolve 4J oz. hvposulphite of soda in 1 qt. water, 
also li oz. acetate of lead in 1 qt. water. Mix the two solutions and boil in an 
