APPENDICES 445 



Some corn beef, canned soups, fruit, currants, choco- 

 late may be taken. 



If these provisions are properly cooked, and there is 

 no pilfering among the men, they should provide appetizing 

 and abundant meals for two. 



Keep your stock pot on the fire when in fixed camp.. 

 Add a few onions and potatoes, and good soup is always 

 ready. When you come in, fagged, a cupful of it is much 

 better for you than a whisky and soda. 



Examine from time to time your cook's kettles and see 

 they are kept clean. See that a clean rack for drying all the 

 cooking utensils is always put up by the headman's orders 

 near the cooking fire; any boughs or scrub can readily be 

 built into a rack. Dirt in and near your food is not only 

 undesirable, but often dangerous. Insist on cleanliness 

 and good cooking and you will certainly get them. And 

 do not grudge the time to go round yourself, and tell your 

 little cook, and not your cook only but his hard-worked 

 and much abused aids, the two cook boys, that you are 

 pleased with them, when they have given you a clean, hot 

 meal. In short, don't forget sometimes to "purr," as well 

 as to "growl." 



As to cups, plates, dishes, I think it is as well to get 

 them on the spot. You are always liberally allowed for 

 such things at the sefari's end. 



