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TIPS TO ARCH/EOLOGICAL TRAVELLERS 285
wailing when we had to spend half an hour re-
packing and reloading. We should have been
better off, and done far more work, if we had had
no baggage except saddle-bags on our own horses.
You can turn on the natives to cook for you in an
evening, and they will do so with the greatest
pleasure as soon as they realise that you provide
the meat and they the cooking, for a meal all
round.
You must have your whole day, and one or more
servants, free for archaeologising; and you cannot
combine that with minding baggage. With two
mounted servants you can do many things that are
not possible with one. For example, you see two
villages two or three miles from each other: you
go to one, and send a man to the other. The
latter has been trained to recognise what you want;
and is able to report whether the village deserves a
visit. With three servants, as my wife and I had
in 1884 after Mr. A. H. Smith was invalided, one
can sweep a great valley from end to end in marvel-
lously short time.
A few words about the humble but absolutely
necessary department of the commissariat will not
be beneath the dignity of future archaeologists. You
can't work without food ; and food is perfectly easy
to procure, if you know how to arrange ; but, if you
do not go about it in the proper way and are unable
wailing when we had to spend half an hour re-
packing and reloading. We should have been
better off, and done far more work, if we had had
no baggage except saddle-bags on our own horses.
You can turn on the natives to cook for you in an
evening, and they will do so with the greatest
pleasure as soon as they realise that you provide
the meat and they the cooking, for a meal all
round.
You must have your whole day, and one or more
servants, free for archaeologising; and you cannot
combine that with minding baggage. With two
mounted servants you can do many things that are
not possible with one. For example, you see two
villages two or three miles from each other: you
go to one, and send a man to the other. The
latter has been trained to recognise what you want;
and is able to report whether the village deserves a
visit. With three servants, as my wife and I had
in 1884 after Mr. A. H. Smith was invalided, one
can sweep a great valley from end to end in marvel-
lously short time.
A few words about the humble but absolutely
necessary department of the commissariat will not
be beneath the dignity of future archaeologists. You
can't work without food ; and food is perfectly easy
to procure, if you know how to arrange ; but, if you
do not go about it in the proper way and are unable