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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. 
1 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 lbs. 
The liquids will be something like the following (a fortnight’s 
supply) 
Whisky . . . . . .2 bottles 
Carbolic 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 . . . .a supply 
Two or three bottles of tart fruits. 
A bottle of pickles. 
The stores will be something like the following (for one fortnight) : 
Tea 
Coffee 
Cocoa 
Sardines 
Candles 
Matches 
Tinned potato powder 
Soap 
Pepper 1 
Mustard 1 
Salt 1 
Potted meats 
Biscuits 
Rice 
Jams 
Swiss milk 
Sugar 1 
Tinned butter 
Tinned soups 
Oatmeal 
Flour 1 
Powdered alum 1 (for 
preparing skins) 
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, 1J 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. 
