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with a canvas cap. A stout post may be set up in the 
centre with a few nails on which to hang clothes. This 
tent should only be used at a permanent camp ; and for 
travelling, the ordinary tent with a ridge-pole, as more 
accurately described hereafter, is preferable ; a piece of 
oiled cloth laid over sticks planted slanting in the ground, 
will keep off the rain and dew. 
A round tent of twenty -four feet in circumference will 
not accommodate more than two men luxuriously, where- 
as one of double that circumference will hold live times 
the number. A large tent is a great comfort and not 
much trouble. A separate tent should of course be 
taken for your men, and another simple one for a make- 
shift and a dining-room. To arrange the latter is your 
first care on arriving at your permanent camping-ground, 
the table is of bark, either birch or spruce, nailed fast to 
posts, and shielded by some protection from the rain ; 
the seats are either a large log or the barrels you have 
brought with you to carry stores and fish, or else stools 
ingeniously chipped from the trunks of trees with the 
branches for legs. A dressing-stand is then arranged, 
with a wash-basin made of birch bark ; the fire-place is 
rigged up with a ridge-pole supported an two notched 
sticks, and with a hooked withe to support the kettle, 
and. your sylvan home is furnished. 
To support and gratify the inner man, it is well to 
have with you all conceivable little delicacies, such as 
nutmegs, allspice, preserved fruits, meats and vegetables, 
sweet oil, lemons and raisins, sardines, chocolate, citric 
acid and ginger ; but the necessaries are clear salt pork, 
flour, rice, oat-meal and Indian-meal, coflfee, tea, brown 
