GENERAL OUTFIT AND ROUTE OF TRAVEL 



has to be carried on porters' heads or backs, be so small 

 that, with fly and poles, packed in a waterproof tent bag, it 

 does not weigh much more than sixty pounds, when dry. 

 When packed wet, a tent will generally weigh fully ten to 

 twenty pounds more, which makes it very heavy to be car- 

 ried by one porter. If the tent is larger, one man carries 

 the inner tent and ground sheets and another the fly, poles 

 and stakes. I have found the former way much handier, 

 for it will allow the hunter to have an inner tent seven 

 feet high by six feet wide and seven feet long, with water- 

 proof ground cloth sewed on all around and a fly extend- 

 ing to the ground seven and a half feet long by twelve feet 

 long at the bottom. 



Such a tent gives ample room for one person, and in 

 an emergency can easily accommodate two. Both ends of 

 the inner tent should be provided with mosquito nets ; the 

 rear end with a large " window," and the front with a loose 

 net to be lifted up, when any one goes in or out, or else 

 have the net fastened all around the edges of the tent's 

 *' door," with an opening in the middle, which may be 

 closed with a string in the same fashion as a lady's sewing 

 bag. A tent thus made gives perfect protection from 

 mosquitoes, flies, ticks, ants, lizards, snakes, and all kinds 

 of " creeping things," with which the tropics swarm. The 

 waterproof ground cloth, sewed on to the tent, gives ex- 

 cellent protection from the dampness of the ground, or 

 even water, in which it is sometimes necessary to pitch 

 the tent after or during a heavy rain storm. An extra 

 " dining room extension," to be buttoned on to the fly in 

 front, is very useful and can be carried, with its pole, as 

 an extra cover for the sleeping bag, or complete bed, which 



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