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(better have it made out in duplicate) with the keys, to 
your tentboy, and let him serve out the things to the cook. 
After some considerable experience in more lands 
than one, I have found that the accompanying quantities 
of food will well suffice two men of ordinary appetite for a 
week. Bacon is best packed in salt, in a box by itself; other- 
wise it soon grows rusty. It is well to carry all flour, oat- 
meal, sugar, coffee, rice, salt in carefully sealed tins. This 
the Army and Navy Company do. Mouldy flour makes 
wretched bread, and when there are no vegetables, bread is 
all important. 
I put no baking powder in my list, for I insist on good 
yeast-raised bread, and will take no cook along who cannot 
make such bread. Test your cook on his baking before you 
engage him. See he does not pass off someone else’s loaf 
as his own. 
I believe good powdered eggs can now be had. If that 
is so, they should be included. Large quantities of dried 
fruit, carefully stewed are, I think, a necessity. 
Indeed, food on sefari can be and should be far more 
appetizing than the food you are supplied with at club or 
hotel. One of the hardest things I know is to keep in 
good health when you leave your camping life for the 
frontier town or the still more trying steamer. 
RATIONS FOR TWO MEN FOR A WEEK 
1o Ibs. Flour. One third fine 10 lbs. Potatoes 
corn meal mixed 4 “ Qhnions 
Be Se Supar tii. soap 
5 “ Dried fruit 1” SsSale 
a -- Butter 4“ Worcester Sauce 
Pose bea 4 “ Currie powder 
EY Sr) 2Cotkee 4 ‘“ Dubbing for boots 
4 —**) Cocoa 1 ‘* Cooper’s Marmalade 
2 pare ges aed 
4 ‘“ Bacon r “ Lentels 
Fo hee SRE 14 cans (small) Ideal Milk 
2.) Oatmeal 4 |b. Box of biscuits 
