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CHAPTER X. 



CAMPING PACKING PROVISIONING THE BOUNDARY TOUR. 



To know how, when, and where to camp, and 

 to be practically familiar with the systems 

 of transport, necessitated in a country where 

 roads, wheels, and i iron horses ' are unknown, 

 forms by no means the least valuable part of a 

 traveller's experience. Twelve years of constant 

 practice in ' the art of travel,' spent in various 

 parts of the world, has taught me very many 

 useful lessons, that may be, possibly, valuable to 

 those who intend devoting a portion (be it large 

 or small) of their lives to wandering through 

 uncivilised regions. 



A tent should always form part of a traveller's 

 equipment, if possible (my remarks apply more 

 particularly to North-western America). Camp- 

 ing out is all very well, ' sleeping with no other 

 canopy than the blue expanse ' sounds very 

 romantic and pretty, and generally ' lionises ' the 

 individual on his return who has done it j but no 



