PERSONAL EQUIPMENT. 
617 
One box containing portable kitchen stove, with utensils, and supply 
of petroleum and wick. 
(To be used when other means fail, or when the camp is stationary, or the weather is very wet and 
cooking under cover necessitated. Should be carried in a wooden bos with supply of petroleum 
in strong bottles or flasks.) 
Lamp . 1 or 2, according to stove. 
Wicks ... 1 dozen. 
Petroleum . 1 gallon, in 4 quart flasks. 
Rippingille^s Patent No. 25, or hurricane stove, includes :— 
£ s. d. 
Stove kettle... 136 
Stewpan . 0 4 0 
Steamer . 0 3 0 
Fryingpan and cover . 0 3 0 
r Oil. 1/6) 1 13 6 
Add ] Wick... 1/0 [ .. 0 6 6 
(Flasks... 3/0 ) —— 
1 19 0 
A few tin cups, plates, steel knives and forks, &c., can be stowed away in this 
box also. 
Can be carried, with all appliances, in a box 1' 9" x V 3" X 1' 2". 
When fuel can be had, and a fire can be made on the ground, a tripod cooking 
arrangement is as good as any, and is very easily set up. 
Four iron bars of flat iron, 3' long. 
One round iron rod, •§" diameter, with staple ends 4'. 
Six or seven hooks, sliding on the rod, to hang kettles on. 
The iron bars are run 6" into ground, secured and bolted with small bolts 
attached to one of them by a chain, through eyes in both. The round iron laid in 
the crutch, and the kettles suspended over the fire made on the ground. 
One box of meats, stores, &c. 
Preserved Meats and Provisions . 
(Should be in a wooden box with hinged lid, to correspond to portable kitchen, and of corresponding 
weight, say total 50 lbs.) 
lbs. 
Compressed tea, 3 lbs.) . ~ 
u vegetables, 12 lbs..,, j 0 
Meats . ) -i f. 
Soups .j 15 
Cocoa . 4 
Coffee . 6 
Sugar . 2 
Tobacco . 3 
Biscuits. 2 
Knife for opening tins .. \ 
47i—say 50 lbs. 
Can be carried in a box T 9" x 1 ; 3" x 1' 2", which should be fitted with D’s 
or eyes in the top longitudinal angle formed by top and back; should be iron 
bound and fitted with a lock. 
Whenever boxes are carried it is as well, if possible, to have the corners “ bull¬ 
nosed 55 and the angles rounded. 
This box should be carried by the same animal as the kitchener. 
