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it on his meat and in his soup and mixes it with his rice 

 and beans. When he has nothing else he eats the farina, 

 as it is called, by the handful. It is seldom cooked. 

 The small mandioc tubers when boiled are very good and 

 are used instead of potatoes. Native beans are nutritious 

 and form one of the chief foods. 



In the field the native cook wastes much time. Gen- 

 erally provided with an inadequate cooking equipment, 

 hours are spent cooking beans after the day's work, and 

 then, of course, they are often only partially cooked. A 

 kettle or aluminum Dutch oven should be taken along, 

 large enough to cook enough beans for both breakfast 

 and dinner. The beans should be cooked all night, a fire 

 kept burning for the purpose. It would only be neces- 

 sary then to warm the beans for breakfast and dinner, 

 the two South American meals. 



For meat the rubber hunter and explorer depends 

 upon his rifle and fish-hook. The rivers are full of fish 

 which can readily be caught, and, in Brazil, the tapir, 

 capybara, paca, agouti, two or three varieties of deer, 

 and two varieties of wild pig can occasionally be shot; 

 and most of the monkeys are used for food. Turtles and 

 turtle eggs can be had in season and a great variety of 

 birds, some of them delicious in flavor and heavy in 

 meat. In the hot, moist climate fresh meat will not keep 

 and even salted meat has been known to spoil. For use 

 on the Roosevelt expedition I arranged a ration for five 

 men for one day packed in a tin box; the party which 

 went down the Diivida made each ration do for six men 

 for a day and a half, and in addition gave over half the 

 bread or hardtack to the camaradas. By placing the 



