APPENDICES 445 
Some corn beef, canned soups, fruit, currants, choco- 
late may be taken. 
If these provisions are properly cooked, and there is. 
no pilfering among the men, they should provide appetizing 
and abundant meals for two. 
Keep your stock pot on the fire when in fixed camp. 
Add a few onions and potatoes, and good soup is always 
ready. When you come in, fagged, a cupful of it is much 
better for you than a whisky and soda. 
Examine from time to time your cook’s kettles and see 
they are kept clean. See that a clean rack for drying all the 
cooking utensils is always put up by the headman’s orders. 
near the cooking fire; any boughs or scrub can readily be 
built into a rack. Dirt in and near your food is not only 
undesirable, but often dangerous. Insist on cleanliness. 
and good cooking and you will certainly get them. And 
do not grudge the time to go round yoursel7, and tell your 
little cook, and not your cook only but his hard-worked 
and much abused aids, the two cook boys, that you are 
pleased with them, when they have given you a clean, hot 
meal. In short, don’t forget sometimes to “purr,” as well 
as to “prowl.” 
As to cups, plates, dishes, I think it is as well to get 
them on the spot. You are always liberally allowed for 
such things at the sefari’s end. 
