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This gives, say, four pounds of raw food per day per man. 

 There was, of course, a large percentage of waste in its prepara- 

 tion and in its transportation from camp to camp. The cost of 

 this raw food (excluding, of course, fish, game, and transportation) 

 was sixty-five dollars, or thirty-two and one-third cents per man 

 per day. Our bill of fare has included the obvious simple and the 

 following compound dishes : 



Crackers, dampened and fried in pork fat, with onions (bisque 

 a la Ilex); fried cakes, of various mixtures of wheat and corn 

 meal; Indian plum-pudding (cauchemar) ; rice-pudding, with rais- 

 ins; raisin-pudding, with rice (ex-cathedra) ; baked pork and 

 beans ; canned meats warmed up with potatoes and cracker crumbs ; 

 eel-pie ; partridge-soup and stew ; duck-stew, and sauces of sugar, 

 butter, and rum. As the guides were so constantly employed in 

 arranging new camps and transporting supplies, they had no time 

 to seek' large game, although we saw both moose and caribou. 



The necessary camp utensils (some of which most guides have 

 on hand) for our number and our style of living are : An iron 

 pot with overlapping cover, a tin tea-pot, two frying-pans, four tin 

 pails, two of them having covers and removable wire legs (par- 

 boiling vessels), the whole to pack in a nest ; a nest of four deep 

 tin dishes or pans, the largest fifteen inches and the smallest ten 

 inches in diameter, to be used as mixing vessels and platters ; a 

 tin baker, say 16 x 12 x /inches; a dozen of each of the follow- 

 ing: tin pint cups, tin dinner plates, and cheap tea-spoons, knives 

 and forks ; three larger cooking spoons of different sizes, two butcher- 

 knives, two tin wash-basins, a salt-box, a pepper-box, and a wire grid- 

 iron. We did not have a camp-stove, which would have been a great 

 convenience. The half of a stout barrel is good to keep pork in, and 

 will also hold fish, game, etc., in separate birch-bark vessels. A 

 birch-bark lined hole in the earth is a good store-room for meat. 

 Then; should be plenty of dish-cloths and towels, and five pounds of 

 bar soap. A can of kerosene and a student-lamp may be readily 

 tak<n ; a dozen candles are convenient, although the camp-fire fur- 

 nishes the necessary illumination. No work nor amusement requir- 

 ing a good light is attempted after dark. The matches should be 

 distributed among the party, and each person should carry a few in 

 a corked metal case. Some nails and tacks of assorted sizes prove 

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