CAMPIXO OUT. £93 



provinces, entertainingly descriptive, and sound in advice, 

 which woidd prove highly useful. They include " Game 

 Fish of the North," by Roosevelt ; Norris's " American 

 Angler," and Frank Forester's "Fish and Fishing." In 

 the former work some excellent receipts will be found 

 for the camp cuisine. I confess to being somewhat of a 

 Spartan as manager of this department, and, ])efore the 

 invention of the really invaluable meat essences, if moose 

 meat, porcupine, or salmon were not in the larder, would 

 fall back upon the staples of a woodman's diet — navy 

 pork and pilot bread, from day to day, unvaryingly. A 

 Sunday dinner, however, would always com[)rise a boil- 

 ing of pea-soup — one of the best descriptions of camp 

 messes — made of split peas, pork bones, lots of sliced 

 onions, potatoes, and pounded biscuit, the latter being 

 added with the seasoninoj at the last. The utmost vigi- 

 lance is required towards the; close of the performance to 

 prevent any solid crust or deposit adhering to the bottom 

 of the pot, as it would then immediately burn, and burnt 

 pea-soup is altogether uneatable. AVe write and read in 

 the camp, as we lie on our blankets extended over the 

 comfortable bedding of fir-boughs, by the light of a little 

 lamp filled with the American burning-fiuid ; it is one 

 of the best and most portable means of lighting a camp 

 that can be taken. A wax candle stuck in a noose of 

 birch-bark di'awn tightly round, and held in a split 

 stick sharpened at the end, which is planted in the 

 ground under the name of the Indian candlestick, is 

 another and more common means of illumination ; and, 

 should cjindles or fluid have been foro-otten, the follow injj 

 will do as a dernier ressort : — A common tin box (as a 

 percussion-cap box), with a wick passed through a hole 



