It was
this--how to make toast without a good fire. She had wrapped some
unused slices of bread in some waste paper, and put the whole lot
among the ashes of our palm-leaf fire in order to burn them.
The paper gradually charred and burnt itself away, and left the bread
behind it nicely roasted into crisp brown toast!
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TRUFFLE HUNTING.
Another tip which we learnt in camp was how to find truffles. These
are a kind of root akin to a mushroom, which grow entirely
underground. They are very nice to eat, and command a good price in
the market.
In France the people find them with pigs; the pigs are able to scent
them, and proceed to root them up with their snouts, when the man
steps in and collars the truffle.
The Arabs showed us how to find them on the desert, where they are
quite plentiful.
We had to examine the ground pretty carefully as we went along, and
where we saw a few little cracks in the surface leading out from one
centre where the earth bulged up a little--there we dug down two or
three inches and found the truffle.
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