Natural History (for an occasional collector): --
Arsenical soap, 2 lbs.; camphor, 1/2 lb.; pepper,
1/2 lb.; bag of some powder to absorb blood, 2 lbs.;
tow and cotton, about 10 lbs.; scalpel, forceps
scissors, etc., 1/2 lb.; sheet brass, stamped for
labels, 1/2 lb..............................................16
Pill-boxes; cork; insect-boxes; pins; tin, for
catching and keeping and killing animals; nets
for butterflies (say bags and all)..........................10
Geological hammers, lens, clinometer, etc....................... 4
Specimens. (I make no allowance for the weight of
these, for they accumulate as stores are used up;
and the total weight is seldom increased.)..............
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Total weight of Natural History materials
(for an occasional collector.......................30
Stores for Individual Use.
For each white man (independently of duration of journey): --
Clothes; macintosh rug; ditto sheet; blanket-bag;
spare blanket...............................................30
Share of plates, knives, forks, spoons, pannikins,
or bowls.................................................... 2
Share of cooking-things, from pots, coffee-mill
kettles, etc................................................ 3
Spare knife, flints, steel, tinder-box, tinder,
four pipes.................................................. 2
Bags, 6 lbs......................................................6
Provisions for emergency --
Five days of jerked meat, at 3 lbs. a day (on
average).................................................15
Two quarts of water (on average), 4 lbs.; share of
kegs, 1 1/2 lb............................................8
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