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whether put into hot water or cold, whether mixed 

 with an egg or without. There is but one rule 

 about it, never allow it to boil more than five 

 minutes at the utmost, and to say three would be 

 better. You may put your coffee in a pitcher if you 

 please and pour boiling water on it, and if you will 

 then stir it till it settles you will find it excellent. 

 The simplest method for the sportsman, however, is 

 to put the grains in the coffee pot in cold water, 

 and set the latter on the fire, let it come to a boil 

 and boil not over five minutes, then take it off and 

 pour a half teacupful of cold water, the colder 

 the better, into the pot, and then stand it on 

 one side to settle, while the other dishes are being 

 placed on the table. To make the highest class 

 coffee it is desirable to mix Java with half its 

 quantity of Eio and quarter of Mocha. A little 

 chiccory is an improvement, and the percolated 

 French coffee is not good without it. But before 

 we get to cooking it is important to arrange what 

 the wanderer will carry with him and how he 

 will cook it. In these days when the canned meat 

 and vegetable possesses the land, in spite of the 

 possible poison which may lurk in its bosom, the 

 question is not so much one of kind, but of quantity, 

 not of choice but of transportation. If you go by 

 water in a boat or canoe you can carry pretty much 

 what you like, and can use the cans for ballast till 

 you want them for food, but if you travel by land 

 you must restrict your supplies according to your 

 strength. Take hard bread or ship biscuit and 



