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Updated: June 10, 2025
It's to be hoped they are tin-lined, or else what about the cartridges? What do you say to laying them two bamboo poles right across the boat for the day, and standing the boxes on them?" "Good idea, Pete!"
We had to go far to collect enough wood for a fire, and cut two sticks with which to rig up a fly to shade us from the sun a purely imaginary shade, for light duck is of little use against the power of such a burning sun; but even the shadow cast by the fly gave an appearance of comfort. At this camp we made two new caissons, as our old tin-lined boxes were no longer strong enough.
This grows in the shape of pods, and is of a gelatinous character, much used for soup, and is also pickled; it may be boiled as follows: Put the young and tender pods of long white okra in salted boiling water in granite, porcelain or a tin-lined saucepan as contact with Iron will discolor it; boil fifteen minutes; remove the stems, and serve with butter, pepper, salt and vinegar if preferred.
It was clear that we could go no further without some sort of caisson to hold back the fine sand. Charlie, with his usual ingenuity, constructed a rough but serviceable one out of the wooden guards on the faces of our water-casks and the tin-lined box lids that we had taken from Hubbe's camp at Mount Allott. Instinct had told us right they were of use!
Then I was warned to keep them in a tin-lined cage, as they would "gnaw through anything," even the solid teak chest in which they were kept was being rapidly demolished by their powerful incisors. The gerbilles were placed in a plant case, four feet long, with glass sides and top, through which their gambols could easily be seen.
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