Offered For Your Inspection ...
Pratt's Gun Hat - revolver mounted in a sun helmet
Edible Canvas - only in a very technical sense
Canteen Helmets - sort of like a beer hat ...
Gumme Clothing - yes, rubber pants, etc.
Armored Waistcoats - silk or steel, hot and uncomfortable either way, but perhaps useful
Inflatable Gumme Furniture and Camping Cabins - hmm ...
Motorized Prosthetic Limbs - perhaps a supply is called for?
Sun Helmet Oven - a lens atop the hat focuses solar heat on a glazed dome
Folding Canvas Boats - in canes, hats, bags, etc.; all sort of flimsy
Cholera Belts - a felt stomach-protector
Round Checkerboards - to distract those suffering from la cafarde
Inflatable Gumme Soldier Decoys and Bombs - some merely dummies, others with intermittent fireworks, some as booby traps
Water Reprocessor - a sort of clunky Victorian attempt at a Katadyn filter
Luminescent Playing Cards - for card playing at night, of course
Liftwood Sun Shield for Horses, Oxen, Camels, etc. - complete with monkey to operate the trim vanes
Mechanical Oxen - the award-winning windup animal, only needs winding every ten miles
Crocodile Deflector - warranted to prevent any approach or attack by alligators, crocodiles, and caimans
Synthetic Pith - celluloid in all of its flammable, explosive forms
the Automatic Military Band - complete with trim-monkeys on liftwood platforms
Hallblend's Interesting Rations - "to improve the morale and raise the spirit"; sort of like Spam meets Cracker Jacks
Folding Coffins - also essential for the morale of European explorers
the Rope Generator and Waste Disposal - it does dispose of waste, but the rope produced is unsuitable
Patent Liftwood Knapsacks - again, complete with trim-monkey
Perspiration Preventers - cholera belts for the various sweaty regions of the anatomy
the War Corset - "for the ladies"
Endless Toilet Paper - an endless belt of gumme-ized canvas, with various cleaning suggestions
the Curved Musket - various unrifled styles are available, including shotguns
Preserved rations amount to about 3 pounds per person per day; two and a half gallons (20 pounds) of water per day per person as well if travelling in the hot Saharan sun. This food consists of canned or otherwise preserved meats, bread or biscuit, sugar, dried potatoes and onions, salt, pepper, cocoa powder, tea, and lime juice.
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