Attractions of a Wild Country 37 
wind, amid mountains is a thing only learnt by bitter—very bitter— 
experience. 
After all, the whole science of life and of living is how to adapt 
oneself to one’s environment and one among the many charms of 
the wild life I have led at intervals for so many years is the know- 
ledge one by degrees accumulates as to what is and what is not 
QUARTERS DURING A BIRDSNESTING EXPEDITION, 
essential to one’s existence. This is no place to expatiate on such 
matters, for every man has his own ideas of what is and is not 
essential. But there are some things to do without which spells 
misery, namely, those which concern rest, such as camp-beds, 
blankets (and mosquito curtains in some countries) and those in con- 
nection with food. The accompanying picture shows a corner of 
my temporary quarters when on a birdsnesting expedition in a wild 
country. 
