ch. xvi.] Hints 011 Travel. 325 



and milk in sealed tins is convenient and refreshing. 

 Tea, coffee, sugar, and salt must be packed in well-corked 

 bottles to keep them dry and free from ants, etc. A 

 bottle of Yorkshire relish or Worcester sauce, and a tin 

 or two of bloater paste are nice relishes for soups. 

 Fowls, eggs, fruit, and sometimes freshly-caught fish may 

 often be purchased en route. A supply of fresh limes is 

 easily carried, and no better cooling and refreshing drink 

 can be made than that formed by squeezing a lime in a 

 glass and adding water and sugar. Be very careful of 

 the water drunk in travelling, and use a pocket-filter 

 whenever it is in anyway doubtful. I always drank 

 cocoanut water when procurable, as being pure and harm- 

 less, and with a dash of brandy it is extremely refresh- 

 ing. As to the quantity of food required, two pounds of 

 rice is ample for a man's daily supply, and less will suffice 

 at times, as natives are generally good foragers. It is 

 generally best, however, to pay less wages, and agree to 

 find the men rice, otherwise they will take only a small 

 quantity, and when that is gone much time will be lost, 

 as they have an excuse for foraging. A few pounds of 

 that universal vegetable, the onion or garlic, should be 

 taken for soup. Jam in tins is also very handy, and 

 a treat to eat with rice for a change. Each man 

 of the party should receive his daily supply of rice 

 every morning, and in order to facilitate progress, all 

 cooking for the first morning's meal may be done over- 

 night. 



Cooking should be well understood by all who propose 

 to " rough it " in a wild land, and it may be defined as 

 the art of preparing food so that it is — 1, nutritious ; 

 2, tasty ; 3, nice to the eye. Two cook-pots are neces- 

 sary — one large enough to boil a fowl when cut up, and 

 the other for rice. A frying-pan and a few pounds of 



