mess-pan

Updated: May 25, 2025

While we were eating breakfast in a circle in front of the tents, all sticking our right hands into a common mess-pan and eating like wolves you have to be awfully careful not to use your left hand, and unless you eat fast you'll get less than your share there came five men on camels out of a wady a shallow valley that lay like a cut throat with red rocks on its edge something over a mile away beyond the egg-shaped rock.

Talbot Mundy - The Lion of Petra