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(better have it made out in duplicate) with the keys, to 

 your tentboy, and let him serve out the things to the cook. 



After some considerable experience in more lands 

 than one, I have found that the accompanying quantities 

 of food will well suffice two men of ordinary appetite for a 

 week. Bacon is best packed in salt, in a box by itself; other- 

 wise it soon grows rusty. It is well to carry all flour, oat- 

 meal, sugar, coffee, rice, salt in carefully sealed tins. This 

 the Army and Navy Company do. Mouldy flour makes 

 wretched bread, and when there are no vegetables, bread is 

 all important. 



I put no baking powder in my list, for I insist on good 

 yeast-raised bread, and will take no cook along who cannot 

 make such bread. Test your cook on his baking before you 

 engage him. See he does not pass off someone else's loaf 

 as his own. 



I believe good powdered eggs can now be had. If that 

 is so, they should be included. Large quantities of dried 

 fruit, carefully stewed are, I think, a necessity. 



Indeed, food on sefari can be and should be far more 

 appetizing than the food you are supplied with at club or 

 hotel. One of the hardest things I know is to keep in 

 good health when you leave your camping life for the 

 frontier town or the still more trying steamer. 



RATIONS FOR TWO MEN FOR A WEEK 



