CHAPTER V. 



PROVISIONS FOR THE WILDERNESS. 



All over the Hudson's Bay territory, in mak- 

 ing trips, be it in winter or summer, there is a 

 scale of provisions upon which a safe result can 

 be assured. For each person of the party, per 

 diem, the following is allowed, and that is mul- 

 tiplied by the supposed number of days that the 

 trip is likely to last. Moreover, for each seven 

 days calculated on, an extra full day's ration 

 is thrown in, this is for safety in case of some 

 unlocked for accident. 



Provisions per man, per day: 2 pounds of 

 flour (or 1 pounds of sea biscuits), 1 pound 

 of fat mess pork, 2 ounces of sugar, -J ounce of 

 tea, 2 ounces of peas (or same of barley), ^ 

 ounce of carbonate of soda, and ^ ounce of salt. 



The peas or barley are intended to be cooked 

 during the night's encampment with any game 

 the route may have produced through the dav. 

 With such rations I have traveled with large 

 and small parties, sometimes with Indians only, 

 and at others with Indian and Canadian voyag- 

 ers mixed; have penetrated the wildest parts of 



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