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day's allowance of bread in this same box, it was light- 

 ened sufficiently to float if dropped into water. There 

 were seven variations in the arrangement of food in 

 these boxes and they were numbered from 1 to 7, so that 

 a different box could be used every day of the week. 

 In addition to the food, each box contained a cake of 

 soap, a piece of cheese-cloth, two boxes of matches, and 

 a box of table salt. These tin boxes were lacquered to 

 protect from rust and enclosed in wooden cases for trans- 

 portation. A number in large type was printed on each. 

 No. 1 was cased separately; Nos. 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 6 and 

 7 were cased together. For canoe travel the idea was to 

 take these wooden cases off. I did not have an opportu- 

 nity personally to experience the management of these 

 food cases. We had sent them all ahead by pack-train 

 for the explorers of the Diivida River. The exploration 

 of the Papagaio was decided upon during the march 

 over the plateau of Matto Grosso and was accomplished 

 with dependence upon native food only. 



The food cases described above were used on Colonel 

 Roosevelt's descent of the Rio da Diivida and also by the 

 party who journeyed down the Gy-Parana and Madeira 

 Rivers. Leo Miller, the naturalist, who was a member 

 of the last-named party, arrived in Manaos, Brazil, while 

 I was there and, in answer to my question, told me that 

 the food served admirably and was good, but that the 

 native cooks had a habit of opening a number of cases 

 at a time to satisfy their personal desire for special deli- 

 cacies. Bacon was the article most sought for. Speak- 

 ing critically, for a strenuous piece of work like the 

 exploration of the Diivida, the food was somewhat bulky. 



