STORES AND PROVISIONS. 205 comforts, containing" three bottles of brandy, three bottles of port, twelve 4-oz. tins of Liebig's extract of meat, y2 lb. of mustard, 1 lb. of yellow soap, i lb. of candles, */£ lb. of salt, four tins of condensed milk, six tins of cocoa and milk, two boxes of safetymatches, yz lb. of compressed tea, a corkscrew, and a cutter for opening the tins in which every article was hermetically sealed.

This box was only to be resorted to in case of great necessity, and several of the commodities kept there in reserve were also furnished as articles of daily food, such as salt and tea.

The ruder necessaries of life included vegetables, and solid soup, flour, oatmeal, and rice, baking-powder to serve for yeast, vinegar, pepper, and lime-juice, and herbs to flavour the soup. There was also a sufficient supply of common soap, a small quantity oi permanganate of potash for purifying purposes; a few cheeses for change of diet, and for those who smoked there was tobacco.

To every boat was to be assigned a 1 2 T/2 -gallon tank of indiarubber protected by a canvas cover, with straps attached for carriage, and each of the ten soldiers and two sailors was to have his metal drinking- cup, his tin plate, deep enough for soup, his knife, fork, and a plated spoon. For the common need of the whole boat party were provided a nest of kettles, fitting one within another, two soup ladles, two butcher's knives and a flesh fork. a baking dish, two zinc pails, three leather buckets, a frying-pan, and a flour dredger; while the more warlike equipment consisted of each man's rifle and ammunition, a pick, two felling" axes, a spade and shovel for intrenching", and a tent to shelter the whole dozen men. To these must be added six boat " lenders," or buffers, a boat-hook, oars, two masts and sails, a coil of rope for towing, and a few other indispensables, and, with twelve m< p.

thrown in, there was a pretty full boat-load; indeed on the voyage afterwards it was often a squeeze for the rowers, especially if the stowage got a little deranged.

However, on the trial at Woolwich, after an hour's labour, with a eood deal of coaxing and contriving, the whole of the burden was comfortably stowed away in the bottom of the boat, and space was still found for a dozen men to sit and navigate the craft,