Here is a sort of paraphernalia I carried : In the frame bag was a package containing blocks of writing paper upon which adventures were to be recorded ; there were three stiff notebooks, pens, pencils, and ink; there was a medicine chest, charged chiefly with quinine and chlorodyne ; there was a little parcel of repairing material, a pouch of tobacco and a pip(essentials), handkerchiefs, sun spectacles, comb, soap-box, tooth-brush, a reticule filled with buttons, needles and thread, darning needles, two balls of wool, and a spare inner tube.

In the bag fastened on the special carriage over the back wheel was an extra shirt, two extra pairs of stockings, two extra pairs of drawers, a cloth cap to sleep in, a pair of pyjamas, a towel, and a pair of heavy hob-nailed jungle boots for use when cycling was impossible.  On the handle-bar was a carrier for a coat and mackintosh, and while on one side hung a water bottle, on the other was fastened a revolver case. In the front hung another bag. In the smaller compartment was a volume of Shakespeare, and in the larger a plate, a collapsible cup, knife, fork, and spoon ; the odd corners to be filled up with food. Altogether the bicycle so loaded weighed seventy pounds; and as my riding weight was i6r pounds, altogether the machine with cyclist turned the scale at 236 pounds.