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(a capital pea-soup in powder), a few tongues and tinned meats,, 

 potted meats in small tins, salt, mustard, pepper, Worcester 

 sauce in small bottles, baking-powder, oatmeal, tapioca, sago r 

 pearl barley, essence of lemon for puddings, tea in compressed 

 form, coffee, cocoa, milk (Nestle's), sugar, saccharine (Allen & 

 Hanbury's), whisky, and candles (Ozokerits), &c., &c. No 

 expedition should be undertaken without a few pint bottles of 

 really good champagne, to be used medicinally, as few things 

 are more efficacious in pulling a man together in cases of 

 extreme prostration after fever, or when thoroughly exhausted 

 and knocked out of time from long and violent exertion. A 

 tumbler of champagne with a teaspoonful of brandy in it, I 

 know from experience, has a marvellous effect in cases of over- 

 exertion. Of course, although spirits should be taken, they 

 should be used with extreme moderation in a climate like that 

 of East Africa, and should not be taken until the sun is down. 

 Provided a man can eat well and most men can when in hard 

 exercise stimulants of any kind are not necessary ; at the same 

 time it is always advisable to have them in case of emergencies. 

 There are times when a man after a long and hard day may be 

 so tired that he is quite past the hungry stage, and does not 

 feel inclined to eat. It is then that a whisky ' peg ' with five 

 grains of quinine in it on arrival in camp, and before having a 

 bath, will be found a capital ' pick-me-up,' and will not only 

 enable a man to eat, but render him far less liable to an attack 

 of fever. 



All stores and wines should be packed in boxes up to sixty- 

 five pounds in weight. The boxes should be made with lock, 

 and key, and then screwed down with brass screws, and a careful 

 invoice taken of the contents. To prevent the constant open- 

 ing and re-opening of these boxes day after day, when any one 

 particular thing is required, it is well to keep two or three for 

 general use, stocked with such things as candles, tea, coffee, 

 cocoa, sugar, milk, Worcester sauce, &c., and a bottle of 

 whisky. As the stores diminish, these boxes can be re-filled 

 from the general stock at convenient times. 



