The Journal of a Sporting Nomad 



holding the match fell, striking a piece of sand- 

 paper in its fall, which lit the match, and this 

 again in due course lit the wick of the spirit lamp. 

 The operator looked over the side of the car 

 into the mirror, to see if the lamp was alight; 

 if so, a regulated time elapsed before the given 

 quantity of food was cooked. He then, before 

 pulling up the apparatus, blew down the tube, 

 which was connected with a pipe, the end of 

 which was close to the foot of the spirit lamp 

 flame. He could thus blow out this flame, and 

 could see in the mirror whether or not he had 

 succeeded in doing so. He had then only to 

 haul up the food into the car to enjoy a hot meal. 

 The dome was used to reserve any superfluous 

 heat generated in the act of cooking the food, 

 but was not an important factor in the arrange- 

 ment. The apparatus showed what an amount 

 of foresight and care had been expended on the 

 very minutest details ; everything that human 

 ingenuity could devise had been thought out ; 

 nothing had been left to chance in the arrange- 

 ments that had been made. The foregoing are 

 the principal items that struck me whilst with 

 Andree. Unfortunately the preparations took 

 so long a time that a start was impossible when 

 I was with him, this being effected the following 

 spring when I was unable to be there. I think, 

 though, that he had a fair chance of success had 



the Fates proved propitious. I had pointed out 



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