and a griddle, a radiator, a kettle, and a frying-pan. Ordinary sauce-pans of a certain diameter can be used with it. A Warren's cooking pot, fitted to the stove, is furnished for £1-1, and a griller for five shillings and sixpence. "When not wanted for cooking, it can bo used for heating a room, for which purpose, you use the radiator, or ornamental chimney, previously mentioned. Thus adjusted, it is also very useful for airing damp linen, or drying wet clothes ; you have merely to place a largo circular basket over it, and spread the things thereon, for the chimney is so contrived that the heat radiates laterally, and there is therefore no chance of burning, scorching, or smoking. In camp, the first thing the Acme would do for you would be to boil the water for your tea : if a raw December, or January morning in the Deccan, or on the plateau of Mysore, you would not object to the operation being performed inside your tent, for the warmth would be very pleasant. It would then bake the bread for your breakfast, and warm up any rechauffe destined for that meal at the same time. During the day it would make the soup, and in the evening be available for work for dinner. I do not say that you could do without a charcoal fire, but the stove would do a large portion of the day's cooking, and in a way vastly superior to any ordinary fire, either in camp or cantonment. In soup-making, for instance, and in stewing operations, you possess the power of producing the exact amount of heat you need by turning down the wicks at will. I have made a pot-au-feu, in a Warren's kettle placed upon my Acme, the like of w^hich I defy a native cook to produce with a common cook-room fire, simply on account of this regulating power. A gallon flask of kerosine oil should be made to fit the stove box for short periods of camp life. If a man were settled in a standing camp, or out in his district for an indefinite CAMP COOKERY. 317 period, he would, of course, require a keg of oil. I use my stove for some houi's daily, and my month's expenditure does not exceed ten quart bottles. Another of Mr. Woolf's valuable inventions, which I can strongly advise the traveller to obtain, is the " Lang spirit lamp" : the large one costs five shillings and six- pence, and is a never failing source of comfort on a journey. In camp it would be found a most useful appendage to the Acme stove for light work, such as boil- ing milk for coffee, cooking eggs in all sorts of ways, heat- ing sauces, frying bacon, &c. I use mine for omelettes almost every day in cantonment, for which work it is admirably adapted. With a " Lang lamp" you can make a cup of tea or coffee in the train, by the side of the road, on arrival at a public bungalow, or under a tree whilst the lascars are pitching your tent : and by its aid, and that of a small frying-pan, you can devil a biscuit, fry a rasher, poach an egg, or cook a kidney, to accompany the tea or coffee. It is fed by methylated spirit, a gallon of which would last for at least two months.

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and a griddle, a radiator, a kettle, and a frying-pan. Ordinary sauce-pans of a certain diameter can be used with it. A Warren's cooking pot, fitted to the stove, is furnished for £1-1, and a griller for five shillings and sixpence. "When not wanted for cooking, it can bo used for heating a room, for which purpose, you use the radiator, or ornamental chimney, previously mentioned. Thus adjusted, it is also very useful for airing damp linen, or drying wet clothes ; you have merely to place a largo circular basket over it, and spread the things thereon, for the chimney is so contrived that the heat radiates laterally, and there is therefore no chance of burning, scorching, or smoking. In camp, the first thing the Acme would do for you would be to boil the water for your tea : if a raw December, or January morning in the Deccan, or on the plateau of Mysore, you would not object to the operation being performed inside your tent, for the warmth would be very pleasant. It would then bake the bread for your breakfast, and warm up any rechauffe destined for that meal at the same time. During the day it would make the soup, and in the evening be available for work for dinner. I do not say that you could do without a charcoal fire, but the stove would do a large portion of the day's cooking, and in a way vastly superior to any ordinary fire, either in camp or cantonment. In soup-making, for instance, and in stewing operations, you possess the power of producing the exact amount of heat you need by turning down the wicks at will. I have made a pot-au-feu, in a Warren's kettle placed upon my Acme, the like of which I defy a native cook to produce with a common cook-room fire, simply on account of this regulating power. A gallon flask of kerosine oil should be made to fit the stove box for short periods of camp life. If a man were settled in a standing camp, or out in his district for an indefinite period, he would, of course, require a keg of oil. I use my stove for some houi's daily, and my month's expenditure does not exceed ten quart bottles. Another of Mr. Woolf's valuable inventions, which I can strongly advise the traveller to obtain, is the " Lang spirit lamp" : the large one costs five shillings and sixpence, and is a never failing source of comfort on a journey. In camp it would be found a most useful appendage to the Acme stove for light work, such as boiling milk for coffee, cooking eggs in all sorts of ways, heating sauces, frying bacon, &c. I use mine for omelettes almost every day in cantonment, for which work it is admirably adapted. With a " Lang lamp" you can make a cup of tea or coffee in the train, by the side of the road, on arrival at a public bungalow, or under a tree whilst the lascars are pitching your tent : and by its aid, and that of a small frying-pan, you can devil a biscuit, fry a rasher, poach an egg, or cook a kidney, to accompany the tea or coffee. It is fed by methylated spirit, a gallon of which would last for at least two months.

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