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286 TIPS TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRAVELLERS
to speak to the natives, you may come near starving,
as was the case in that brief and unfortunate jour-
ney, which the " Wandering Scholar" describes in
amusing and pathetic terms in the second chapter
of his entertaining book.
It is a wise rule always to have with you, attached
to your own saddle (either in saddle-bags, or a pocket
connected with the saddle) a small supply of pre-
served food : I have found a tin of sardines handy
to carry, and a useful change from the ordinary
inland food. If you are benighted, or fail to reach
camp, you have then always a stand-by, which re-
lieves you of a pressing anxiety. This rule should
never be neglected : you may carry the same tin
for a month without using it, but never omit it.
When one is working long hours, and trying to
traverse as much ground as possible, sunset has a
habit of coming down in a most awkward manner.
Scores of times I have had a long ride of one or
two hours in black darkness on a strange road, in
complete uncertainty as to the way. Sometimes
we came out at the wrong village, generally at the
right one; occasionally we had to lie out on the
open ground and wait till morning. Until I made
the sardine rule absolute, such rides in the dark
were a time of anxiety : with a tin of sardines you
are master of your fate. In November, i88t, among
the Phrygian mountains, my wife and I found our-
to speak to the natives, you may come near starving,
as was the case in that brief and unfortunate jour-
ney, which the " Wandering Scholar" describes in
amusing and pathetic terms in the second chapter
of his entertaining book.
It is a wise rule always to have with you, attached
to your own saddle (either in saddle-bags, or a pocket
connected with the saddle) a small supply of pre-
served food : I have found a tin of sardines handy
to carry, and a useful change from the ordinary
inland food. If you are benighted, or fail to reach
camp, you have then always a stand-by, which re-
lieves you of a pressing anxiety. This rule should
never be neglected : you may carry the same tin
for a month without using it, but never omit it.
When one is working long hours, and trying to
traverse as much ground as possible, sunset has a
habit of coming down in a most awkward manner.
Scores of times I have had a long ride of one or
two hours in black darkness on a strange road, in
complete uncertainty as to the way. Sometimes
we came out at the wrong village, generally at the
right one; occasionally we had to lie out on the
open ground and wait till morning. Until I made
the sardine rule absolute, such rides in the dark
were a time of anxiety : with a tin of sardines you
are master of your fate. In November, i88t, among
the Phrygian mountains, my wife and I found our-