APPENDIX 



Grass sleeping mats are good for the men, and for use as ground 

 mats inside your tent. 



Coming to foodstuffs, you must bear in mind the fact that you 

 can get very little in the jungle villages beyond an occasional fowl, 

 eggs, and perhaps a pumpkin. 



Rice, even, is frequently unprocurable, so you must take all you 

 require with you. Rice is an infernal nuisance, but without rice 

 natives here are hopelessly lost will not, and simply cannot, 

 accommodate themselves to anything else. Moreover, a Tamil 

 becomes ill at once if he is fed on any rice other than the particular 

 kind he has been accustomed to. 



If your men are Tamils, you can allow a quarter of a bushel per 

 man per week. They won't eat all that if you shoot plenty of 

 game, but the extra will come in to feed yourself, your carriers for a 

 day or two, and your trackers whilst they are with you. 



I also usually take about 10 Ibs. of ready-ground curry stuffs 

 for the men, or, in the case of my own regular men, give them 

 about Rs.2 each at starting to buy their own, as they pass through 

 Matale on their way north. 



Your coolies, if you are a stranger, will sell, waste, over-eat, or 

 throw away their foodstuffs as soon as they have " had enough " of 

 the jungle, to try and force you to break camp and go home. 



Soups are my great stand-by, and I thoroughly appreciate 

 Lazenby's soup squares for their excellence and portability. 



Tinned meats all taste alike, and are most cloying to the palate, 

 so live on your gun as much as you can. Red deer meat is the best, 

 spotted deer fair, but elk is tough and tasteless. 



Young pig is good, so is porcupine, whilst pigeons and jungle 

 fowl, always available, are excellent ; but I don't recommend too 

 much shot-gun work in deer country on account of the noise. 



" Plasmon " biscuits are very good, and a few in your pocket will 

 carry you a long day without a full meal. 



A ham is excellent for " early tea." Tea is my principal drink, 

 or, occasionally, when coming in very tired, chocolate-and-milk. 



Lime juice cordial comes in very handy for use with filtered 

 water and to charge your water-bottle for a long day's march. 



For the latter I use a big half-gallon aluminium felt-covered 

 bottle, which I find most excellent can't have too big a bottle or 

 flask. Chocolate-sticks are also a fine stand-by for a lo'ng day with- 

 out food a couple of sticks of chocolate and half-a-dozen biscuits 

 will enable a man to go on all day without inconvenience. 



The less transport you have the better, as a camp full of men is 

 an abomination and leads to rows, thieving, and food difficulties. 



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