write upon...........................................2
Books to read, say equal to six vols. the ordinary size
of novels; and maps..........................................7 1/2
Bags and cases...................................................3
Sketching-books, colours, and pencils............................6
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Total weight of stationery............................30

Mapping: --
Two sextants; horizon and roof; lantern; two pints of
oil; azimuth compass; small aneroid; thermometers;
tin-pot for boiling thermometers; watches (see
chapter on Surveying Instruments)...........................18
Protractors; ruler; compasses; measuring-tape, etc.............. 3
Raper's Navigation; Nautical Almanac; Carr's Synopsis,
published by Weale; small tables, and small
almanacs; star maps..........................................4
Bags and baskets, well wadded....................................6
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Total weight of mapping materials.....................31

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