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lumps or dry flour left in it. To show what I mean, 500 statute adults, at 12 ozs. flour each, require 375 lbs. four, out of which I have had 12,600 chuppatties made, which I distribute as follows:

“40 girdars, bandharries, topazes, hospital attendants, and all others doing extra work

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variation, and of which I can say that the people have thriven well upon it, and that there has been little bowel complaint among them.

WEEKLY DIET SCALE for each Adult, Ship “Hereford," Voyage from Calcutta to Fiji, 1888.

Breakfast.

Dimer.

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As above, also

st Lime juice

Sugar

As on Sunday.

at 30 each

1,200

Day.

*Condiments, &c.

289 men

-

at 28

8,092

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133 women -

-

at 22

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39 boys

-

at 4

2,926 156

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Sunday

Sugar Biruit

Rier

14

Cumin al fenu-

10

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greek, oach

+

33 girls

-

nt 4

132

Vexetables

В

Müstard and cori.

Mutton, fresh and

preserved

2

Total

12,506

12,600 12,506

ander seed, and

garlic, ench

Chillies and black

pepper, each

Turmeric

and

green Kinger,unch

Tamarind

2

Salt and ghee, cach 1oz.

As above.

Mookiny

Balance 94 and broken ones, and those for patients

in hospital, &c., to be divided among chuppattie wallahs."

Kitcherrie.

Rire

DAI mussoor

Flour

palties)

(chuy

12

Glee

Dál gram -

Onions

Vegetables

Pepper and salt, quant.

Mutton.

pre-

suff.

served

Eesday

Curry and rice

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Rice

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I quote this from an actual issue now before me. Chuppattie making commenced at 6 a.m., and they were all baked and ready for issue at 2 p.m. The "chuppattie-wallahs" are—

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Wednesday -

Rice

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Raw onions Salt

Fish, dried

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patties)

Dal urbur Vegetables

(chuy

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Variety of diet,

1st. Men to knead the dough as above described, and to throw pieces, say about the size of the last joint of the thumb, to the women to roll out.

2nd. Women to roll out the dough in thin cakes, dusting a little dry flour on them to keep them from sticking. They are provided with rolling pins and hard wood boards, but I have used empty beer bottles and the bottoms of their plates; and they sit round a piece of canvas spread on the deck, and should be of sufficient number to supply chup- patties as fast as the bandharries can bake them.

3rd. Men or boys to carry the chuppatties to the galley, either on the rice sieves or small plattens of tin.

4th. Men to rub the chuppatties over with ghee when delivered by the bandharries; and,

As before stated, one sirdar to check the number delivered to, and another the number delivered by, the bandharries.

1 give the chuppattie-wallahs tin checks, on delivery of which they get the balance of the chuppattics remaining at the end of the issue, besides their own proper allowance, divided among them.

The next point of importance in connection with diet is, to give as great variety as possible; and here I venture to give a Diet Table which I have used for years with little

Thursday.

Kitcherrie.

Rice

Dal Moong

Ghee

Onions

Mution,

pre-

Berved

Rice

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As on Sunday.

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Vegetables

Pepper and salt, quant.

Buff.

Mutton, fresh and

preserved

2

Friday.

(Bico

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Raw onions Salt

Flour (chup

Jatties)

As on Sunday.

12

or

Curry and rice,

Saturday

Biscuit

Dál mugsoor Gheo

2

Dal urhur-

Vegetables

Mutton. served

Rice

Dėl urbur Vegetables Mutton, served

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2

14

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2

As on Tuesday, also

38oap, 175lbs. for all at present; afterwards increased.

On Wednesday and Saturday tobacco will be issued, viz. :-

Prepared tobacco, 1 oz. 5 dra. Leaf tobacco. 14 dr. to each adult.

• Curry stuffs under this bead are given according to the scale on p. 33 of the new Rules (Act XXI. of 1883). In this ship, with 600 statute adults, 1 issued:- Turmeric, 2 lbs.; garlic, black pepper, and coriander seed, each Ib.; giuger, 1lb.; mustard seed and chillies, each ú oz.; and curain and fenusrock, each or.; which the people, after trying different quantities, liked best, and was less than the quantity allowed fu each ingredient.

A great deal has been said and written about flour and rice eaters, but the gentlemen, who insist so much upon the tastes of each being consulted, seem to forget that though

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