A little bag of it is all the provisions a Mexican or Indian takes with him on a journey of days or weeks.

It is simply mixed with water and forms a tasty gruel, rather indigestible for persons not accustomed to it.

When boiled into a porridge, however, pinole is very nourishing, and forms a convenient diet for persons camping out.

Aside from this we still had a supply of wheat flour sufficient to allow the party fifteen pounds a day, and our stock of canned peas and preserved fruit, though reduced, was not yet exhausted.

The jerked beef had given out even before we reached the main sierra, and we had to depend on our guns for meat.