APPENDIX. 



COOKERY ADAPTED TO THE RESOURCES OF SPORTSMEN 

 IN THE WILDERNESS OR ON THE WAVE. 



OOKING in the wilderness is a 

 high art. It is not sup- 

 posed that these simple di- 

 rections will be of service 

 to that class of sportsmen 

 who take to the woods or 

 water a retinue of cooks 

 and attendants, but they 

 .may be of use to those 

 who have a keen appetite 

 for the more rugged feat- 

 ures of such a life. 



An officer of the Ameri- 

 can Army, who made me 

 several valuable contribu- 

 tions to this department, 

 states: "A sportsman ig- 

 norant of these matters is an entire stranger to that which 

 constituted in my day one of the most agreeable phases of 

 fishing and hunting life. With some knowledge of the sub- 

 ject, he can at least instruct others if he dislikes the practice 

 himself; otherwise he becomes a mere dependent on those 

 who may be more ignorant than himself. On the plains of 

 the West, in the lake region of Canada, in the lower prov- 

 inces, and on the waters of Maine, he might, and would, of 

 course, subsist, and so would the Indian and the Esquimaux, 



