24 SFOR T IN ABYSSINIA . 



not recommend this arrangement for rough zvork, as if 

 a can gets bent it does not fit into the other, which 

 is a disadvantage, as it then has to be carried sepa- 

 rately, and eventually ends by being knocked to 

 pieces. The best kinds of things for the cook are a 

 common gridiron, a large frying-pan, three sizes of 

 pots made of strong tin in the shape of milk-pails for 

 boiling in ; a good tin kettle, a soup-ladle, and a 

 couple of butcher's knives. With those one may go 

 anywhere. 



With regard to knives and forks, the best sorts are 

 those that are made by Thornhill, of Bond Street, for 

 skinning animals, but they ansv/er other purposes as 

 well. All steel things, in a hot, dry climate, can be 

 very well cleaned and polished by the natives with 

 the wood ashes out of the camp-fire, and there is no 

 reason why they should look dirty, for dirty things 

 always take away the appetite, especially if you 

 have sometimes to eat rather strange food. The forks 

 I had made from my own pattern, and two of them 

 can be converted into a fish spear on an emergency. 

 It is a great thing to try and manage to have such 

 implements as may be made to serve more than one 

 purpose ; as the reader will understand, this saves a 

 great deal of carriage. 



H. brought out two English hunting-saddles ; they 

 did very well for the mules we rode in Abyssinia. 



