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The Land of Footprints-Part45_Stewart Edward White(1873-1946)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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should bring plenty, that it was better to have too much than too

little, etc. I rather thought so myself, and accordingly shipped



a trifle over 1,500 rounds of small bore cartridges.

Unfortunately, I never got into the field with any of my numerous



advisers on this point, so cannot state their methods from

first-hand information. Inductive reasoning leads me to believe



that they consider it unsportsmanlike to shoot at a standing

animal at all, or at one running nearer than 250 yards.



Furthermore, it is etiquette to continue firing until the last

cloud of dust has died down on the distant horizon. Only thus can



I conceive of getting rid of that amount of ammunition. In eight

months of steady shooting, for example-shooting for trophies, as



well as to feed a safari of fluctuating numbers, counting

jackals, marabout and such small trash-I got away with



395 rounds of small bore ammunition and about 100 of large. This

accounted for 225 kills. That should give one an idea. Figure out



how many animals you are likely to want for ANY purpose, multiply

by three, and bring that many cartridges.



To carry these cartridges I should adopt the English system of a

stout leather belt on which you slip various sized pockets and



loops to suit the occasion. Each unit has loops for ten

cartridges. You rarely want more than that; and if you do, your



gunbearer is supplied. In addition to the loops, you have leather

pockets to carry your watch; your money, your matches and



tobacco, your compass-anything you please. They are handy and

safe. The tropicalclimate is too "sticky" to get much comfort,



or anything else, out of ordinary pockets.

In addition, you supply your gunbearer with a cartridge belt, a



leather or canvas carrying bag, water bottle for him and for

yourself, a sheath knife and a whetstone. In the bag are your



camera, tape line, the whetstone, field cleaners and lunch. You

personally carry your field glasses, sun glasses, a knife,



compass, matches, police whistle and notebook. The field glasses

should not be more than six power; and if possible you should get



the sort with detachable prisms. The prisms are apt to cloud in a

tropicalclimate, and the non-detachable sort are almost



impossible for a layman to clean. Hang these glasses around your

neck by a strap only just long enough to permit you to raise them



to your eyes. The best notebook is the "loose-leaf" sort. By

means of this you can keep always a fresh leaf on top; and at



night can transfer your day's notes to safe keeping in your tin

box. The sun glasses should not be smoked or dark-you can do



nothing with them-but of the new amberol, the sort that excludes

the ultra-violet rays, but otherwise makes the world brighter and



gayer. Spectacle frames of non-corrosive white metal, not steel,

are the proper sort.



To clean your guns you must supply plenty of oil, and then some

more. The East African gunbearer has a quite proper and



gratifying, but most astonishinghorror for a suspicion of rust;

and to use oil any faster he would have to drink it.



Other Equipment. All this has taken much time to tell about, it

has not done much toward filling up that tin box. Dump in your



toilet effects and a bath towel, two or three scalpels for

taxidermy, a ball of string, some safety-pins, a small tool kit,



sewing materials, a flask of brandy, kodak films packed in tin, a

boxed thermometer, an aneroid (if you are curious as to



elevations), journal, tags for labelling trophies, a few yards of

gun cloth, and the medicine kit.



The latter divides into two classes: for your men and for

yourself. The men will suffer from certain well defined troubles:



"tumbo," or overeating; diarrhaea, bronchial colds, fever and

various small injuries. For "tumbo" you want a liberal supply of



Epsom's salts; for diarrhaea you need chlorodyne; any good

expectorant for the colds; quinine for the fever; permanganate



and plenty of bandages for the injuries. With this lot you can do

wonders. For yourself you need, or may need, in addition, a more






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