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• Pratt's Gun Hat - revolver mounted in a sun helmet

• Edible Canvas Tents and Rucksacks - 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, to prepare your food
  

• 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

• 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 Helmet - celluloid in all of its flammable, explosive forms

• the Automatic Military Band - about the size of a hot dog cart
  

• 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

• 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 Gun - various unrifled styles of small arms 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 traveling 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.