The substitution of _dall_ for any portion of the vegetable ration I consider undesirable.
Tinned soups and meats and biscuits are most valuable, and should be liberally supplied to every force in the field.

They are portable and liked by the men, to whom they furnish a very welcome change of diet.
I would very strongly recommend that a much larger issue of these articles than has hitherto been sanctioned should be provided.
[Sidenote: Firewood.] 29.

A question which has arisen during this campaign, and which may crop up again, has been the provision of firewood for cooking to Native troops and followers.

Throughout the winter firewood could not be purchased at Kabul, and it was absolutely necessary to issue it to these men.

This was done at the rate of one _seer_[5] per man, but this amount is not arbitrary, and might, under certain circumstances, be diminished.