2IO HINTS ON TRAVELLING AND CAMP EQUIPMENT. 



I have had these baskets fitted with a number of tin boxes to contain flour, rice, sugar, 

 tea, &c. This plan answers admirably, ensures cleanliness, and prevents waste 



Again I must warn the stranger in India that he must look after everything himself 

 or he will find every device that he may have adopted perverted to strange uses. Native 

 servants, especially the low class Mahomedans from amongst whom we obtain our cooks 

 and table attendants, have no idea of order and are for the most part extremely filthy in 

 their habits. Rather than make use of the best designed receptacles for the requirements 

 of a kitchen, they will accumulate a heterogeneous collection of dirty rags and flimsy paper 

 parcels, each of which will be found to contain some culinary ingredient destined for their 

 master's table. 



Stores. 



The nature and amount of stores to be taken must of course depend upon individual tastes, 

 upon the districts visited, and upon the duration of the expedition. Coarse flour and rice 

 can be obtained in most villages in our own hill provinces and throughout Kashmir ; but 

 in some districts wheaten flour is hardly ever eaten by the inhabitants, while in Ladak 

 ' satil ' or parched barley-meal is the staple article of subsistence. Under all circumstances 

 the sportsman will do well to lay in a sufficient stock of fine flour and white rice to last 

 him until he can make sure of visiting some good-sized bazar, or of having additional 

 supplies sent out to him. 



In remote districts it is frequently necessary to carry food for the whole of one's 

 followers for many days : this is of course an additional reason for limiting the amount of 

 personal baggage. One seer of flour per diem is the allowance for each man. 



One should always be provided with a few tins of soup, and preserved meat, so as to 

 be prepared for such emergencies as scarcity of fuel, bad weather, impossibility of obtaining 

 fresh meat, being belated on a pass, &c, &c. 



I have found Kopf's soups in small tin cylinders the most portable and convenient, 

 and I think them excellent, especially the pea soup. 



I cannot too strongly recommend Goundry's consolidated tea and coffee, which I 

 consider most valuable inventions for adding to the comfort of the traveller. 



Among other necessary and useful stores which no one should be without, I may 

 enumerate carbonate of soda (a large supply for ' chupatties '), cocoa and milk, curry powder, 

 sugar, Worcestershire and Harvey's sauce, a few tins of carrots, compressed vegetables, a 

 few bottles of whisky or brandy, and one or two of ginger syrup. 



Cooking Utensils. 



I have now discarded all ' degcliies ' and saucepans in favor of Warren's cooking pots, 

 which I consider unrivalled for convenience, portability, cleanliness, and economy of fuel. 



With one of these, one of the corrugated combined gridiron and frying pans, and 

 a spit, as good a dinner may be prepared as any traveller need wish for ; and with the 

 addition of a kettle and a teapot no other utensils are required. Being made of block 

 tin, the troublesome tinning, so necessary with copper vessels, is dispensed with ; the 



