b6 The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon. 



and a dressing-table and gun-rack complete the furni 

 ture. 



Next in importance to the tent is a good canteen. 

 Mine is made of japanned block tin, and contains in 

 close-fitting compartments an entire dinner and' break- 

 fast service for three persons, including everything that 

 can be required in an ordinary establishment. This is 

 slung upon a bamboo, carried by two coolies. 



Clothes must always be packed in tin boxes, or the 

 whole case will most likely be devoured by white 

 ants. 



Cooking utensils must be carried in abundance, 

 together with a lantern, an axe, a bill-hook, a tinder- 

 box, matches, candles, oil, tea, coffee, sugar, biscuits, 

 wine, brandy, sauces, etc., a few hams, some tins of 

 preserved meats and soups, and a few bottles of curacoa, 

 a glass of which, in the early dawn after a cup of hot 

 coffee and a biscuit, is a fine preparation for a day's 

 work. 



I once tried the rough system of traveling, and 

 started off with nothing but my guns, clothes, a box of 

 biscuits and a few bottles of brandy no bed, no pil- 

 low, no tent or chairs or table, but, as my distressed 

 servant said, " no nothing." This was many years ago, 

 when the excitement of wild sports was sufficient to 

 laugh at discomfort. I literally depended upon my gun 

 for food, and my cooking utensils consisted of one 

 saucepan and a gridiron, a " stew" and a "fry" being 

 all that I looked forward to in the way of gourmandism. 

 Sleeping on the bare ground in native huts, dining cross- 

 legged upon mother earth, with a large leaf as a substi- 

 tute for a plate, a cocoa-nut shell for a glass, my hunt- 

 ing-knife comprising all my cutlery, I thus passed 



