Our pepper-pot was usually made in a gipsy-kettle, suspended from a tripod. The foundation of the stew was always a tin of some kind of soup. Then a few goat chops--mutton is bad to buy out in the jungle--and then any bird or beast that may have been shot, divided into fragments. I have frequently made a stew of this sort, with so many ingredients in it that the flavour when served out at table--or on the bullock-trunk which often did duty for a table--would have beaten the wit of man to describe. There was hare soup "intil't" (as the Scotsman said to the late Prince Consort), and a collop or two of buffalo-beef, with snipe, quails, and jungle-fowl. There were half the neck of an antelope and a few sliced onions lurking within the bowl. And there were potatoes "intil't," and plenty of pepper and salt. And for lack of cassaripe we flavoured the savoury mess with mango chutnee and Tapp sauce. And if any cook, English or foreign, can concoct a more worthy dish than this, or more grateful to the palate, said cook can come my way. The old _dak gharry_ method of travelling in India may well come under the head of Camping Out. In the hot weather we usually progressed--or got emptied into a ditch--or collided with something else, during the comparative "coolth" of the night; resting (which in Hindustan usually means perspiring and calling the country names) all day at one or other of the _dak bungalows_ provided by a benevolent Government for the use of the wandering _sahib_. The larder at one of those rest-houses was seldom well filled. Although the _khansamah_ who prostrated himself in the sand at your approach would declare that he was prepared to supply everything which the protector-of-the-poor might deign to order, it would be found on further inquiry that the _khansamah_ had, like the Player Queen in Hamlet, protested too much--that he was a natural romancer. And his "everything" usually resolved itself into a "spatch-cock," manufactured from the spectral rooster, who had heralded the approach of the _sahib's_ caravan. _A Rajah's_