The ship _Abundance_, lately arrived, has its bakery at work day and night, turning out excellent bread, which will take the place of the sour and mouldy article often sent from the contractors at Constantinople. M. Soyer has invented a most important kind of bread, which seems to unite the advantage of the loaf and the biscuit, and has found out a method of cooking salt rations which makes them most palatable and entirely removes the salt. His receipts have been highly approved, and will be printed by the authority of head-quarters. The camp kitchens he has invented for field hospitals will soon be in activity, as those of the chief hospitals already are; but his suggestions and their application are of so practical and extensive a nature that they will require a second letter from, Sir, your obedient servant, C. H. B. _Scutari Barrack-hospital, June 7._ _To the Editor of the Times._ SIR,--I shall do myself the pleasure of forwarding you by the next post a _résumé_ of my culinary progress in the Crimea, adding to it the promised receipts, as well as some of those which I have already very successfully introduced into the camps, made out of the rations issued to the troops. I am also happy to inform you, that though so close to Sebastopol, I have not yet met with a single enemy; and were it not for the continual roaring of the cannon, the bursting of shells, and the heat of the sun, I could fancy myself in England’s happy land. But instead of enemies, on the contrary, from head-quarters to every camp and regiment, the officers and medical gentlemen have rendered me the utmost assistance, so ready are they to improve the cooking of the food for their brave companions in arms. The provisions allowed by Government I consider bountiful, and only require to be applied to the best advantage. With the highest consideration, I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, A. SOYER. _Camp before Sebastopol, June 3._ CHAPTER XXII. PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER TRIP. Preparations for my departure--French, Turkish, and Sardinian camps--Lord Ward--A visit to Mr. Upton--The lost pony--A bright idea--A famous piece of roast-beef--Mrs. Seacole and her daughter--News of the lost pony--A merry group--My beef in danger--A _ruse de guerre_--Safe at head-quarters--Sir George Brown--Interview with Lord Raglan--Letter in the _Illustrated London News_--Curious mistake--A night cruise--Explanations--Lord Raglan’s affability--The late Madame Soyer--Lord Alvanley and Ude--Singular birthday anecdote--Pleasant gossip--Ride home--News from Kertch--Visit to the Tchernaya--An invitation--Miss Nightingale on board the _Jura_--Mishaps--Midnight visitors--The _London_--A kind offer--Acceptance--Ready to start.