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the suoar had been added. After the ingredients were well incor- 

 porated by stirring, they were transferred to tin canisters, capable of 

 containing 851b. each ; and having been firmly rammed down, and - 

 allowed to contract further by cooling, the air was completely ex- -^ 

 pelled and excluded by filling the canister to the"brim with melted 

 lard, through a small hole left in the end, which was then covered 

 with a piece of tin, and soldered up. Finally, the canister was 

 painted and lettered according to its contents. The total quantity 

 of pemmican thus made was 17,424 lb., at a cost of Is. 7Jd. a pound. 

 But the expense was somewhat greater than it would otherwise have 

 been, from the inexperience of the labourers, who required to be 

 trained, and from the necessity of buying meat in the London market 

 at a rate above the contract price, occasioned by the bullocks slaugh- 

 tered by the contractor for the naval force at Portsmouth being in- 

 adequate to the supply of the required number of rounds. Various ~ 

 temporary expedients were also resorted to in drying part of the 

 meat, the malt-kiln and the whole Clarence Yard being at that time 

 fully occupied night and day in preparing flour and biscuit for the 

 relief of the famishing population of Ireland. By the suggestions 

 of Messrs Davis and Grant, the intelligent chief officers of the 

 victualling yard, and their constant personal superintendence, every 

 difficulty was obviated. -^^ h-^^i'^A x> m^im:i^^p^ ^^\t ysS^ .Bi 



As the meat in drying 16^ mor^ fHaflthr^ei-fouVthVof its drigind 

 weight, the quantity required was considerable, being 35,651 lb. ;* 

 and the sudden abstraction of more than one thousand rounds of beef 

 from Leadenhall market occasioned speculation among the dealers, 

 and a rise in the price of a penny per pound, with an equally sudden - 

 fall when the extra demand was found to be very temporary. f 



The natives dry their venison by exposing the thin slices to the 

 heat of the sun, on a stage, under which a small fire is kept, more 



* By drying, this was reduced to about 8000 lb. , ^ -" -^^^^ 



t Particulars of the estimated expense of pemmican inanufs^cturedfii^lFfe'^ 

 Royal Clarence Victualling Yard in midsummer quarter 1847 : — 



Fresh beef, 35,651 lb. at 6fd. per lb. ., . £979 10 1 



Lard, 7,549 ... at 88s. per cwt. ^^X^b na?'- 296 11 -tiiooi ooa^jaib 



Currants, 1,008 ... at 84s. per cwt,,ijoi4 nfi- 2^,..^ l^ ^^'1- ^^i-i -ah i& 



Oak slab, 46 fms. at ^2s. 6d. ^^ \Ua, .89g1od .lo'i £47 5 OiO ono vtiaw c ' 

 Hire for labourers, . , .:V;{do • ;^fiw.l 9r)flti ^9 8 ,^ ^^ j^ ^^., 



Hire of kiln and cartaffe, , . i ..,^,rjf h^ i 8 1 . r - . 



^ ^ ii3il/v ,300 1 no 10 ^a'i9 vri]^|!^'.^^e;.^]; 



q&l oa iiai-jijq aidj ni loi ; \ .■:■■ ,;.. 

 V 'ic - iiii ^% noloo dsinnil ,sij3dY'^432 10 

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 aioi'i .2in9meltJ»8 we^ a hnn ,(9^1) 9iajluoi7T>B eljiifetggs-ipn 



'" ^'■-- '"■ '—' ■ ■'' '"M y7/,rhwn i^ulVn'f ,',¥- ' 



(iuantity of pemmican manufactured,iiJ7,424i Jbh; ;»,y^agei fpst per lb., 1;;. "id. 



