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who in truth was a jack of all useful trades in 

 camp, and a porter on the road, that trudged pa- 

 tiently and good naturedly under a heavy load 

 whenever we moved camp, as we did frequently. 

 The only thing Linn and I clashed over was the 

 simplicity of his cooking kit. I am myself some- 

 thing of a Spartan as to camp dunnage ; my equip- 

 ment is never luxurious, being always reduced to 

 a strictly practical working basis,; yet mine was an 

 elaborate culinary outfit compared to that which 

 served Lum. So far as ever I could see, it con- 

 sisted of two pots and a fry pan. He would not 

 use separate pots, making the coffee or a curry in 

 the same one with equal facility, and I must hon- 

 estly add without any apparent tainting of either 

 dish ; but I had to draw the line when I found him 

 one day boiling a kind of a pudding concoction 

 in one end of his loin cloth. And he was the most 

 devout individual of any color I ever knew. There 

 was never an undertaking for which he did not 

 bespeak assistance from his gods; and we never 

 made a camp that he did not raise a crude little 

 altar, nearby in the jungle, as merit making. Lum 

 Yet had a brother whose pig had been carried off 

 by a tiger, and Lum never lost an opportunity, 

 during the entire trip to supplicate the mysterious 

 one of the jungle that his own pig, in a shanty near 

 his brother's, might not suffer a similar fate. He 



