THE LONG TRAIL 



provision lists prepared by his friends in 

 England were drawn up on a presidential 

 scale w^th champagne and pate de foies 

 gras and all sorts of luxuries. These were 

 blue-penciled and two American staples 

 substituted — baked beans and canned to- 

 matoes. Father always retained the ap- 

 preciation of canned tomatoes gained in 

 the early ranching days in the West. He 

 would explain how delicious he had found 

 it in the Bad Lands after eating the toma- 

 toes to drink the juice from the can. In 

 hunting in a temperate climate such as 

 our West, a man can get along with but 

 very little, and it is difficult to realize that 

 a certain amount of luxury is necessary in 

 the tropics to maintain oneself fit. Then, 

 too, in Africa the question of transporta- 

 tion was fairly simple — and almost every- 

 where we were able to keep ourselves and 

 the porters amply supplied with fresh 

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