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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Total for each white man.............................66

For each white man, and for each six months: --
Tea and coffee, 9 lbs.; tobacco, 6 lbs; salt, 6 lbs.;
pepper, 1 lb................................................22
Brandy or rum, occasionally served out...........................6
White sugar, 2 lbs.; arrowroot, 1 lb.; dried onions,
etc., 3 lbs..................................................6
Ammunition for small-bored rifles, with reserve
powder and caps..............................................9

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Total for six months
(or at the rate of 7 lbs. per month)..............43

For each black man (independently of duration of journey): --
Bedding, etc.................................................... 9
Meat and water for emergencies, as above (about)................19
Share of cooking-things......................................... 2

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Total for each black man.............................30

For each black man, and for each six months: --
Tobacco, 6 lbs.; salt, pepper, etc., 5 lbs......................11
Presents which will have to be made him from time to time... ....6

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Total for six months
(or at the rate of 3 lbs. per month).............17

Presents and Articles for Payment.--It is of the utmost importance to a
traveller to be well and judiciously supplied with these: they are his
money, and without money a person can no more travel in Savagedom than in
Christendom. It is a great mistake to suppose that savages will give
their labour or cattle in return for anything that is bright or new: they
have their real wants and thei