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If one comes, I shall have to buy vegetables, milk, coffee and but- 

 ter to keep the men in good humor." 



Nothing further of interest was noted during the next few days 

 except that my party were mildly ill because of the change of 

 diet. When you go off a mixed diet to a diet of meat alone, you 

 never feel any worse for the change, — usually better. But when 

 you have been for months on a diet of meat you almost always feel 

 under the weather for two or three weeks after coming back to the 

 mixed diet. I imagine the reason to be that meat is such a bulky 

 food that the stomach gets accustomed to large quantities. Then 

 when you eat the richer "civilized" food and fill the stomach as 

 much as you used to with meat you overload it. It is likely that 

 were one to go on a strict ration as to quantity no ill results would 

 follow the change from meat to a mixed diet. 



