atches
will soon spoil), a box of salve, the knives, fork, spoon, dipper,
portfolio, paper, Testament, &c. Every man also has something in
particular that "he wouldn't be without for any thing."[4]

There should also be in every party a clothes brush, mosquito-netting,
strings, compass, song-book, guide-book, and maps, which should be
company property.

I have supposed every one to be dressed about as usual, and have made
allowance only for extra weight; viz.,--

Rubber blanket 2-1/2 pounds.
Stout woollen blanket and lining 4-1/2 "
Knapsack, haversack, and canteen 4 "
Drawers, spare shirt, socks, and collars 2 "
Half a shelter-tent, and ropes 2 "
Toilet articles, stationery, and small wares 2 "
Food for one day 3 "
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Total 20 pounds.

You may be able to reduce the weight here given by taking a lighter
blanket, and no knapsack or canteen; but most likely the food that you
actually put in your haversack will weigh more than three pounds. You
must also carry your share of the following things:--

Frying-pan, coffee-pot, and pail 3 pounds.
Hatchet, sheath-knife, case, and belt 3 "
Company property named on last page 3 "

Then if you carry a heavier kind of tent than the "shelter," or carry
tent-poles, you must add still more. Allow also nearly three pounds a
day per man for food, if you carry more than enough for one day; and
remember, that when tents, blankets, and clothes get wet, it adds about
a quarter to their weight.

You see, therefore, that you have the prospect of hard work. I do not
wish to discourage you from going in this way: on the contrary, there is
a great deal of pleasure to be had by doing so. But the majority of men
under twenty years of age will find no pleasure in carrying so much
weight more than ten miles a day; and if a party of them succeed in
doing so, and in attending to all of the necessary work, without being
worse for it, they will be fortunate.

In conclusion, then, if you walk, and carry all your stuff, camping, and
doing all your work, and cooking as you go, you should travel but few
miles a day, or, better still, should ha