Of Food. 425 



have occasion to treat more fully in another place. 

 To return, therefore, to the subject more immediately 

 under consideration, Food. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of the small Expense at which the Bavarian Soldiers 

 are fed. Details of their Housekeeping, founded 

 on actual Experiment. An Account of the Fuel 

 expended by them in Cooking. 



IT has often been matter of surprise to many, and 

 even to those who are most conversant in military 

 affairs, that soldiers can find means to live upon the 

 very small allowances granted them for their subsist- 

 ence ; and I have often wondered that nobody has 

 undertaken to investigate that matter, and to explain 

 a mystery at the same time curious and interesting 

 in a high degree. 



The pay of a private soldier is in all countries very 

 small, much less than the wages of a day-labourer; 

 and in some countries it is so mere a pittance that it 

 is quite astonishing how it can be made to support 

 life. 



The pay of a private foot-soldier in the service of 

 His Most Serene Highness the Elector Palatine (and 

 it is the same for a private grenadier in the regiment 

 of guards) is five kreutzers a day, and no more. For- 

 merly the pay of a private foot-soldier was only four 

 kreutzers and a half a day, but lately, upon the intro- 



