bleday, Page & Co.'s pocket editions of Dickens,
Thackeray, and Lever, and as most of our time in Manchuria was spent
locked up in compounds, they proved a great blessing.

In the list I have included a revolver, following out the old saying that
"You may not need it for a long time, but when you do need it, you want
it damned quick." Except to impress guides and mule-drivers, it is not
an essential article. In six campaigns I have carried one, and never
used it, nor needed it but once, and then while I was dodging behind the
foremast it lay under tons of luggage in the hold. The number of
cartridges I have limited to six, on the theory that if in six shots you
haven't hit the other fellow, he will have hit you, and you will not
require another six.

This, I think, completes the list of articles that on different
expeditions I either have found of use, or have seen render good service
to some one else. But the really wise man will pack none of the things
enumerated in this article. For the larger his kit, the less benefit he
will have of it. It will all be taken from him. And accordingly my
final advice is to go forth empty-handed, naked and unashamed, and borrow
from your friends. I have never tried that method of collecting an
outfit, but I have seen never it fail, and of all travellers the man who
borrows is the wisest.

Footnotes:

{1} From "A Year from a Reporter's Note Book," copyright, 1897, by
Harper & Brothers.

{2} From "A Year from a Reporter's Note Book, copyright, 1897, Harper &
Brothers."

{3} For this "distinguished gallantry in action," James R. Church later
received the medal of honor.

{4} Some of the names and initials on the trees are as follows: J. P.
Allen; Lynch; Luke Steed; Happy Mack, Rough Riders; Russell; Ward; E. M.
Lewis, C, 9th Cav.; Alex; E. K. T.; J. P. E.; W. N. D.; R. D. R.; I. W.
S., 5th U. S.; J. M. B.; J. M. T., C, 9th.

{5} A price list during the siege:

SIEGE
OF
LADYSMITH,

1899-1900.

_I certify that the following are the correct and highest prices realised
at my sales by Public Auction during the above Siege_,

JOE DYSON,
_Auctioneer_.

LADYSMITH,
FEBRUARY 21_st_, 1900.