What instruments, arms, tools, provisions and other items did the travelers take with them? Mention the quantity and complete name of the item. Details not required. e.g. write 'two Colt revolvers' - NOT 'revolvers'.

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My uncle had been hard at work all the afternoon. The garden was full of ropes, rope ladders, torches, gourds, iron clamps, crowbars, alpenstocks, and pickaxes—enough to load ten men.

• the travellers are carrying Ruhmkorff coils Two Ruhmkorff coils, which, by means of a current of electricity, would ensure us a very excellent, easily carried, and certain means of obtaining light: All our industry and ability were devoted to packing every object in the most advantageous manner—the instruments on one side, the arms on the other, the tools here and the provisions there. There were, in fact, four distinct groups.