y be
valuable. Remember to sleep off the ground, not to starve yourself,
to protect yourself from the sun, to let negroes do all hard work
but marching and hunting. Do these things your own way, using your
common-sense on how to get at it. You'll be all right.

That, I conceive, covers the case. The remainder of your equipment has
to do with camp affairs, and merely needs listing. The question here is
not of the sort to get, but of what to take. The tents, cooking affairs,
etc., are well adapted to the country. In selecting your tent, however,
you will do very well to pick out one whose veranda fly reaches fairly
to the ground, instead of stopping halfway.

1 tent and ground sheet
1 folding cot and cork mattress,
1 pillow, 3 single blankets
1 combined folding bath and ashstand ("X" brand)
1 camp stool
3 folding candle lanterns
1 gallon turpentine
3 lbs. alum
1 river rope
Sail needles and twine
3 pangas (native tools for chopping and digging)
Cook outfit (select these yourself, and cut out the extras)
2 axes (small)
Plenty laundry soap
Evaporation bag
2 pails
10 yards cotton cloth ("Mericani")

These things, your food, your porters' outfits and what trade goods you
may need are quite sufficient. You will have all you want, and not too
much. If you take care of yourself, you ought to keep in good health.
Your small outfit permits greater mobility than does that of the English
cousin, infinitely less nuisance and expense. Furthermore, you feel that
once more you are "next to things," instead of "being led about Africa
like a dog on a string."

APPENDIX V. THE AMERICAN IN AFRICA

WHAT HE SHOULD TAKE

Before going to Africa I read as many books as I could get hold of on
the subject, some of them by Americans. In every case the authors have
given a chapter detailing the necessary outfit. Invariably they have
followed the Englishman's ideas almost absolutely. Nobody has ventured
to modify those ideas in any essential manner. Some have deprecatingly
ventured to remark that it is as well to leave out the tinned carfare-if
you do not like carfare; but that is as far as they care to go. The
lists are those of the firms who make a business of equipping caravans.
The heads of such firms are generally old African travellers. They
furnish the equipment their customers demand; and as English sportsmen
generally all demand the same