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CHAPTER X. 
CAMPING——PACKING— PROVISIONING—THE BOUNDARY TOUR. 
To know how, when, and where to camp, and 
to be practically familar with the systems 
of transport, necessitated in a country where 
roads, wheels, and ‘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; but no 
