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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: completed my kit and arranged my toilette. By way of armoury and
utensils, I took a revolver, a little spirit-lamp and pan, a
lantern and some halfpenny candles, a jack-knife and a large
leather flask. The main cargo consisted of two entire changes of
warm clothing - besides my travelling wear of country velveteen,
pilot-coat, and knitted spencer - some books, and my railway-rug,
which, being also in the form of a bag, made me a double castle for
cold nights. The permanent larder was represented by cakes of
chocolate and tins of Bologna sausage. All this, except what I
carried about my person, was easily stowed into the sheepskin bag;
and by good fortune I threw in my empty knapsack, rather for
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