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Appendix: Contents of Bag 314

Here is an inventory of Item 314, in the same order as in Chapter Five.

• One large green cotton cloth …: Piece of towel
• One medium-size knitted composite cloth …: Piece of men’s briefs.
• One cylindrical metal container …: This is the can of OFF insect repellent.
• One blue composite plastic cylindrical container …: Sun-block.
• A small piece of paper with inscriptions: Instructions for the cleaning patches (next).
• One clear plastic bag: The cleaning patches used with the cleaning kit (next).
• One black polypropylene rectangular case …: A cleaning kit, consisting of:
  • One cylindrical brown glass bottle …: Metal cleaner.
  • One ellipsoid sheet metal can with plastic cap …: Metal-protecting oil.
  • Three pieces of similar, but not the same, design …: Cleaning rods that screw onto the big one (below).
  • Two stiff nylon cylinders …: For holding the cleaning patches. They also screw onto the big rod.
  • One steel cylinder covered with mammal fur …: Another end for the big rod.
  • One elaborately shaped piece of sheet steel … perhaps a spacer …: Yes, a spacer.
  • One long piece of aluminum rod …: The main cleaning rod.
• Two black and green plastic cups …: Ear protectors.
• One white polystyrene plastic bag, about the size of a grocery bag …: An empty grocery bag.
• One palm-sized roll of wood paper–based tape …: Masking tape.
• One rod of tightly wrapped paper, about as thick and as long as a finger: A china marker.
• An elaborately shaped steel container …: The pistol’s magazine.
  • A spring.
  • Six precisely packed cylindrical cans …: Bullets.
• One harness system …: Shoulder harness.
• One white cloth with one small inscription …: A monogrammed handkerchief.
  • The heaviest object in the bag: A large-caliber automatic pistol. From the bullets, it must be a .45 or a 9mm.

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