336 THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA 
salt be carried for the men. The tobacco is chewed, and the coffee drunk 
before early marches on cold mornings. 
Next we have to calculate for the stores of one European for 42 days. 
I recommend that several wooden boxes be made, measuring about 1 foot 
6 inches by 2 feet, and 1 foot 1 inch deep, capable of being padlocked, 
with the cover on hinges, and two rope handles for convenience of 
handling. All the liquids which have to be kept in bottles may go in 
one box, and all the tinned and other stores in another, the pair con- 
taining a fortnight’s supply, and each loading up to about 65 Ibs. 
The liquids will be something like the following (a fortnight’s 
supply) :— 
Whisky : : , , 2 bottles 
Carbolie oil (for sores of men or perhaps camels) . 1 bottle 
Carbolic acid, strong . : ; ; 1 small bottle 
Cocoanut oil for lamps ; ‘ a supply 
Turpentine for preparing skins : about 6 bottles 
Oil for cleaning rifles ; ‘ : . asupply 
Two or three bottles of tart fruits. 
A bottle of pickles. 
‘The stores will be something like the following (for one fortnight) :— 
Tea Pepper? Sugar? 
Coffee Mustard? Tinned butter 
Cocoa Salt? Tinned soups 
Sardines Potted meats Oatmeal 
Candles Biscuits Flour! 
Matches Rice Powdered alum? (for 
Tinned potato powder Jams preparing skins) 
Soap Swiss milk Tinned fruits 
Of Swiss milk very little need be taken, as milk-goats can be bought 
and driven along with the caravan. Soups are most useful, and I usually 
take about ten tins for a fortnight. Fresh potatoes can be bought in 
Aden, and will last for the first three weeks of the trip. They would go 
in a separate sack. Onions may be taken in the same way. Biscuits 
and small tins of potted meats, provided salt-kinds such as anchovy and 
bloaters are omitted, are useful to carry in the pocket when out for a 
day’s hunting. The salt-kinds are objectionable as they induce thirst. 
I seldom carried any large tins of meat. Dried game meat can always 
be saved, to be used in case of emergency. 
I only used lamp-oil for two bull’s-eye lanterns which I kept for 
theodolite work. ‘They make good night referring-points if fixed half a 
mile away. I had candle-lanterns for camp use, and spring candlesticks 
with glass globes for the tent. 
Four of these boxes, containing stores or liquors, will go on one camel. 
Thus we have—European rations and stores for 42 days, 14 camel- 
loads. For private baggage, tent, instruments, cooking-pots, and bed- 
ding, allow 2 camel-loads. For cloth, large cooking-pot for the men, 
bags of spare ammunition for sporting rifles, and extras, we will allow 
1 camel-load. The men will carry thirty rounds each in their cartridge- 
belts or pouches, and for such a short trip it will not be necessary to 
1 These stores should be sewn up in small bags, each to contain a fortnight’s supply. 
