Tea and dry bread _versus_ porter and beefsteak--Tea for soldiers--Opinion of Professor Parkes--Tea _versus_ spirits--Tea and Tel-el-Kebir--Lord Wolseley's testimony--Pegs and teapots--Temperance in the navy--Drinking the health of her Majesty in a bowl of tea--Cycling and tea-drinking--Mountain-climbing--Tea in the harvest-field--Cold tea as a summer drink. Tea is not only a valuable stimulant to the mind, but is the most beneficial drink to those engaged in fatiguing work. Dr. Jackson, whom Buckle quotes as an authority, testified in 1845, that even for those who have to go through great fatigues a breakfast of tea and dry bread is more strengthening than one of beefsteak and porter. "I have been," says Dr. Inman, "a careful reader of all those accounts which tell of endurance of prolonged fatigue, and have been touched with the almost unanimous evidence in favour of vegetable diet and tea as a beverage, that I have determined in every instance where long nursing, as of a fever patient, is required, to recommend nothing stronger than tea for the watcher." In the army, as well as in the hospital, tea is slowly, but surely, supplanting the use of grog. "As an article of diet for soldiers," remarked Professor Parkes, "tea is most useful. The hot infusion, like that of coffee, is potent both against heat and cold; is most useful in great fatigue, especially in hot climates, and also has a great purifying effect on water. Tea is so light, is so easily carried and the infusion is so readily made, that it should form the drink _par excellence_ of the soldier on service. There is also a belief that it lessens the susceptibility to malaria, but the evidence on this point is imperfect." Admiral Inglefield, writing in January, 1881, strongly commended the use of tea and coffee as heat producers.