298 CAMP LIFE. 
vinegar and allspice and baked all night. Next day- 
fresh vinegar is added to make np for the evaporation, 
and lard is run in to exchide the air. They keep well 
and taste excellent. 
An air-tight can is now made, with a cover that fits 
into a trough which can be filled with melted rosin. 
This may be nsed over and over again, and is peculiarly 
adaj^ted to the woods. It mnst be hermetically sealed 
while the contents are boiling, but without sealing might 
be advantageously used to protect sugar and such things 
from the wet. The same cover is applied to brown ear- 
then jars, which are well suited for carrying butter. 
Literature will be found a great resource in the woods, 
and although Harper's last Monthly may be permissible 
on account of the shortness of its stories, nothing should 
be taken of too interesting a character, lest it divert 
attention from the main object in view. This work will 
be found extremely safe. 
In giving the foregoing directions it is assumed that 
the reader intends to travel with canoes, and does not 
expect to make any extensive portages, or, as they are 
called in American, " carries ;" for if the men are ex- 
pected to back the traps for any considerable distance, 
the only admissible articles are fishing-tackle, penny-royal, 
an axe, the tents, pork, ship biscuit, tea, sugar, pepper, 
salt, tea-kettle, matches and a frying-pan. The slightest 
weight becomes a mountain on such occasions, and it will 
require stout muscles to carry enough for their own sus- 
tenance. In salmon-fishing this is rarely necessary, 
unless a man would be an explorer, and the adventurous 
are al-^ays sufferers. 
