2l6 THE GAME OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 



Stones on which the cooking pots are to rest. If these cannot be found, then lumps 

 of earth, broken off the side of a white-ant's hill, will have to serve. It is seldom 

 that neither one nor the other of these useful camp properties cannot be found. 

 Occasionally you strike localities where neither one nor the other are to hand. A 

 simple device then may be constructed as follows : Dig a trench narrow enough to 

 permit of the pots resting across it, and opposite each position for a pot dig another 

 Httle trench sloping down into the main trench. The firewood is then placed in the 

 big trench and the pots stood over it in position, and when lighted the fire is kept 

 going by bits of stick being shoved down the little trenches or ramps, under their 

 respective pots. 



There are many other simple contrivances that I might describe, but they will 

 have to keep for another time, as this chapter has already grown too long. For all 

 I know to the contrary, most of the devices I have given may be stale news to my 

 reader, but I shall hope that a few at least may prove of service to him. 



