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vinegar and allspice and baked all night. Next day 

 fresh vinegar is added to make up for the evaporation, 

 and lard is run in to exclude the air. They keep well 

 and taste excellent. 



An air-tight can is now made, with a cover that fits 

 into a trough which can be filled with melted rosin. 

 This may be used over and over again, and is peculiarly 

 adapted to the woods. It must be hermetically sealed 

 while the contents are boiling, but without sealing might 

 be advantageously used to protect sugar and such things 

 from the wet. The same cover is applied to brown ear- 

 then jars, which are well suited for carrying butter. 



Literature will be found a great resource in the woods, 

 and although Harper's last Monthly may be permissible 

 on account of the shortness of its stories, nothing should 

 be taken of too interesting a character, lest it divert 

 attention from the main object in view. This work will 

 be found extremely safe. 



In giving the foregoing directions it is assumed that 

 the reader intends to travel with canoes, and does not 

 expect to make any extensive portages, or, as they are 

 called in American, " carries ;" for if the men are ex- 

 pected to back the traps for any considerable distance, 

 the only admissible articles are fishing-tackle, penny -royal, 

 an axe, the tents, pork, ship biscuit, tea, sugar, pepper, 

 salt, tea-kettle, matches and a frying-pan. The slightest 

 weight becomes a mountain on such occasions, and it will 

 require stout muscles to carry enough for their own sus- 

 tenance. In salmon-fishing this is rarely necessary, 

 unless a man would be an explorer, and the adventurous 

 are always sufferers. 



