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The liver, too, makes an excellent dish for breakfast, 

 fried with some of the tinned bacon, though with some 

 animals, as the waterbuck, even this part is tough and 

 almost uneatable. 



To make bread (with baking powder) ; puddings 

 of rice or sago with condensed milk and custard 

 powder ; poach, boil and fry eggs, etc. ; cook potatoes, 

 make good tea and coffee, and the other simple but 

 necessary culinary matters that make an expedition 

 more pleasant, requires but a little knowledge and 

 practice, and the beginner can pick up a few useful 

 hints from his cook at home before he starts out, and 

 should carry a small and concise cookery-book in his 

 outfit. 



Above all insist on the boy keeping the pots and 

 pans and the table requisites clean and bright ; though 

 most African camp boys are almost too good at this, 

 and will wear the knives to paper thinness and the 

 pots through the bottom in endeavouring to keep them 

 polished. 



There is the old story of the man who had a new 

 boy, and as a start gave him his gun to clean; the 

 boy was away some time, and when he handed the 

 gun to his " boss " it was polished inside and out like 

 a piece of new steel. Lacking minute instructions, 

 he had gone down to the river bank and with sand 

 and water rubbed off all the browning, which he in 

 ignorance thought was dirt. 



Revolvers. — A revolver or automatic pistol can 



