For cooking-utensils on a trip like that we are now proposing, you will do well to content yourself with a frying-pan, coffee-pot, and perhaps a tin pail; you can do wonders at cooking with these.

We will consider the matter of cooking and food elsewhere; but the main thing now is to know beforehand where you are going, and to learn if there are houses and shops on the route.  Of course you must have food; but, if you have to carry three or four days’ rations in your haversack, I fear that many of my young friends will fail to see the pleasure of their trip.  Yet carry them if you must:  do not risk starvation, whatever you do.  Also remember to always have something in your haversack, no matter how easy it is to buy what you want.

I have now enumerated the principal articles of weight that a party must take on a walking-tour when they camp out, and cook as they go.  If the trip is made early or late in the season, you must take more clothing.  If you are gunning, your gun, &c., add still more weight.  Every one will carry towel, soap, comb, and toothbrush.

Then there is a match-safe (which should be air-tight, or the matches 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 "
          
                                              ——­
                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.