APPENDIX. 
COOKERY ADAPTED TO THE RESOURCES OF SPORTSMEN 
IN THE WILDERNESS OR ON THE WAVE. 
OOKING in the wilderness is a 
high art. It is not sup- 
. posed that these simple di- 
rections will be of service 
_ to that class of sportsmen 
who take to the woods or 
water a retinue of cooks 
and attendants, but they 
may be of use to those 
/ who have a keen appetite 
' for the more rugged feat- 
ZZ ures of such a life. 
An officer of the Ameri- 
can Army, who made me 
several valuable contribu- 
tions to this department, 
states: “A sportsman ig- 
norant of these matters is an entire stranger to that which 
constituted in my day one of the most agreeable phases of 
fishing and hunting life. With some knowledge of the sub- 
ject, he can at least instruct others if he dislikes the practice 
himself; otherwise he becomes a mere dependent on those 
who may be more ignorant than himself. On the plains of 
the West, in the lake region of Canada, in the lower prov- 
inces, and on the waters of Maine, he might, and would, of 
course, subsist, and so would the Indian and the Esquimaux, 
