454 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



made the pudding. This diet was too monotonous, and, 

 combined with bad cooking, want of cleanHness in the 

 kitchen, and snow water, eventually so knocked me up 

 that I was compelled the following year to take sick leave. 

 It would have been wiser to have brought a larger supply 

 of eatables so as to have had a more varied diet, and I 

 would recommend sportsmen to be liberal in allowing 

 themselves such luxuries as dried figs, Californian fruit, 

 tinned vegetables, prunes, etc. 



Personally, if I were starting on a three months' 

 trip again, I should take everything mentioned in 

 K. C. A. J.'s list, except the Erbswiirst and cocoa and 

 milk, but I should make the following changes in the 

 quantities : — 



Tea. — I would take 12 lbs. instead of 6, so as to have 

 some to spare for the servants and coolies after a hard 

 day. 



Candles. — I would take 15 lbs. Allowing 2 a night, 

 a pound would last 6 nights ; therefore, for 90 nights, 1 5 

 pounds would be necessary. 



Soups. — I found Lazenby's soup squares very useful. 

 Half a cake made enough soup for one dinner. Kash- 

 miris are good generally about making soup, but occa- 

 sionally there is no time, and then the squares save much 

 trouble. I would take 6 cakes, assorted. 



Soap. — I would take 6 bars of common yellow soap 

 for washing i\\q. j'/im^ans (kitchen cloths) and clothes, and 

 half a dozen tablets of toilet soap for personal use. 



Bacon. — This would probably be used every morning, 

 and I think that 13 lbs. is the least amount that should 

 be taken, I found it a good plan to have the meat boiled 



