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 

 3 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 

 ,V for the more rugged feat- 

 ■^^'.t 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, ^ith 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, 



