middle garments, as it is very difficult to keep the body rigid during a lengthy passage.
Porters can rarely do more than fifteen miles a day, unless the journey be only for a day or two. Arrived in camp, they have to fetch water, collect firewood, and often go as much as two or three miles to buy their own food. It is very inadvisable to have to do these things after dark—and darkness always comes on at 6.30, after half an hour’s twilight. These men carry 65 lb. quite easily, and many of them are so strong that they can go ten or fifteen miles without a rest. There are numbers of men in the country who can carry 100 to 120 lb. on their heads for miles; but the Government fixed limit is 65 lb.
Young travellers should never leave the making up of their provision boxes to a native boy without supervision. It is very inconvenient to find at the first camp that
