The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Africa, Central -- Description and travel
_Arms and Ammunition_, including 2 smooth bores, 3 rifles, a Colt’s
carbine, and 3 revolvers, spare fittings, &c., and 3 swords. Each gun
has its leather bag with three compartments, for powder-flask, ball,
caps, patches, &c. 100 lbs. gunpowder (in 2 safety copper magazines and
others); 60 lbs. shot; 380 lbs. lead bullets, cast of hardened material
at the Arsenal, Bombay, placed in boxes 40 lbs. each for convenience of
carriage, also to serve as specimen boxes, and screwed down to prevent
pilfering; 20,000 copper caps; wadding.
The Baloch are armed with matchlocks, shields, swords, daggers and
knives. They have for ammunition--40 lbs. gunpowder (4 kegs); 1000 lead
bullets; 1000 flints for slaves’ muskets, and are to be followed by
about an equal quantity of ammunition.
_Camp Furniture._--1 sepoy’s rowtie; 1 small (gable-shaped) tent of two
sails joined, to cover and shelter property in this land of perpetual
rains; 1 table and chair; 1 tin Crimean canteen, with knives and forks,
kettle, cooking-pots, &c.; bedding, painted tarpaulin cover, 2 large
cotton pillows for stuffing birds, 1 air pillow, 2 waterproof blankets
(most useful), 1 Maltese blanket (remarkably good), and 2 other
blankets; 1 cork bed, with 2 pillows, 3 blankets, and mosquito net. The
Goanese have thick cotton padded mattresses, pillows, and blankets, and
all the servants have some kind of bedding. 3 solid leather portmanteaus
for clothes and books; 1 box, like an Indian petarah, for books; 1
patent leather bag for books, washing materials, diaries, drawing-books,
&c.; 1 small couriers’ bag, for instruments, &c.; 5 canvas bags for kit
generally; 3 mats, used as carpets.
_Instruments._--1 lever watch; 2 chronometers; 2 prismatic compasses,
slings, and stands; 1 ship’s azimuth compass; 2 pocket compasses; 1
pocket thermometer; 1 portable sun-dial; 1 rain gauge; 1 evaporating
dish; 2 sextants and boxes, with canvas bags to be slung over porters’
shoulders; 2 artificial horizons (with a little extra mercury, to be
followed by more); 1 pocket lens; 1 mountain barometer lent by Bombay
Geographical Society (very delicate); 3 thermometers; 1 measuring tape
(100 ft.); 1 sounding lead; 2 boiling thermometers; 1 box of
mathematical instruments; 1 glass; 1 telescope; 2 ft. rule with brass
slide; 1 pocket pedometer by Dixie; 1 parallel ruler.
_Stationery._--Foolscap paper; 1 ream common paper; 6 blank books; 3
Letts’ diaries; 2 dozen pencils; 6 pieces caoutchouc; 6 metallic note
books; 3 memorandum ditto; 1 box wafers and sealing wax; 2 field books;
steel pens; quill ditto; ink powder which makes up well without acid; 3
bottles ink; 1 bottle native ink; 2 sets meteorological tables, blank; 4
tin cylinders for papers (very bad, everything rusts in them); Nautical
Almanacs for 1857 and 1858; charts, Mr. Cooley’s maps; “Mombas mission
map”; skeleton maps; table of stars; account book; portfolio; wooden and
tin cylinders for pens, &c.
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