Thus we have, European rations and stores for 42 days, 1½ camel-loads. For private baggage, tent, instruments, cooking-pots, and bedding, allow 2 camel-loads. For cloth, large cooking-pot for the men, bags of spare ammunition for sporting rifles, and extras, we will allow 1 camel-load. The men will carry thirty rounds each in their cartridge belts or pouches, and for such a short trip it will not be necessary to have more than fifty rounds per man carried in one box. A little buckshot and blank ammunition would also be carried, the latter being useful for drill and firing salutes.
Sporting ammunition should be carried in haversacks or magazines distributed about the loads, each rifle having its own bag of ammunition; and a little should be carried in a couple of haversacks on the riding camel, ready to hand. The sporting cartridges for the day’s use would be carried in the pockets of the sportsman and his two hunters. If one large box of spare sporting ammunition and one box of Snider ball ammunition be also carried, we must allow—spare ammunition, ½ camel-load.
The camel-loads for the ten baggage camels will be as follows:—
| Camel-loads. | |
|---|---|
| (a) Native rations | 4 |
| (b) European rations | 1½ |
| (c) Private European baggage | 3 |
| (d) Ammunition | ½ |
| (e) Cloth and other extras | 1 |
| Total | 10 |
The expenses of such a trip may be conveniently grouped as follows:—
(1) Purchase of tent, rifles, and kit of all sorts in London or Bombay.
(2) Passages to and from Aden.
(3) Hotel expenses in Aden.
(4) Purchase of necessaries at Aden.
(5) Passages from Aden to the Somáli coast and back.