164 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
(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, 
pearl barley, essence of lemon for puddings, tea in compressed 
form, coffee, cocoa, milk (Nestlé’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. 
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