brass, and an inscription to be on them:

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I TARTARIN, OF TARASCON I
I Firearms, &c. I
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The binding in brass and the lettering took much time. He also
ordered at Tastavin's a showy album, in which to keep a diary and
his impressions of travel; for a man cannot help having an idea or
two strike him even when he is busy lion-hunting.

Next, he had over from Marseilles a downright cargo of tinned
eatables, pemmican compressed in cakes for making soup, a new
pattern shelter-tent, opening out and packing up in a minute, sea-
boots, a couple of umbrellas, a waterproof coat, and blue spectacles
to ward off ophthalmia. To conclude, Bezuquet the chemist made
him up a miniature portable medicine chest stuffed with diachylon
plaister, arnica, camphor, and medicated vinegar.

Poor Tartarin! he did not take these safeguards on his own behalf;
but he hoped, by dint of precaution and delicate attentions, to allay
Sancho-Tartarin's fury, who, since the start was fixed, never left off
raging day or night.



XIII.
The Departure.