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Litter on sliding topmast for compactness, will be found 

 the best. When anchored, the bow will point to the 

 wind. A tent, open aft, may be hung under the boom, 

 spread with stretchers, and furled sail ; and with light 

 boards a bed for three or four may be arranged, and 

 cooking by spirit lamp be done at the wide stern. 

 With such a boat, and two good negroes, boatmen 

 (cooks they generally are), more interesting trips can be 

 made than with a yacht, and more unfrequented points 

 be reached. If cruising in the wide waters is intended, 

 some considerable shear to the bow lines will make a 

 drier and safer boat, and a canvas bow deck will do 

 good service. Air cushions will be found very comfort 

 able, and in mishaps they are invaluable as life- 

 preservers. 



One of H. L. Puncklee s stoves will fit out such a 

 party, but a spirit lamp is very useful to heat water for 

 a preventive punch, or for a bowl of soup from Liebig s 

 extract of beef, and with it and an Old Dominion coffee 

 pot, excellent hot coffee may be made, or Borden s Ex 

 tract will give it more simply. Often for miles no hard 

 ground is to be found, and some heating apparatus is 

 indispensable. No one should brave the night air of 

 the everglades without warm and stimulating food and 

 drinks, and a little quinine will do no harm. Light 

 wines are of great service, and the water flowing from 

 the swamps will not harmed by a &quot; wee drop,&quot; and for 

 the rattlesnake or moccasin bite that never comes, the 

 same is needful. Prudent ones usually do not wait for 

 a bite, but show unbounded confidence in preventive 

 measures. 



For sleeping in camp, in this animated land of fleas, 

 spiders, and the creeping things, so unfortunately taken 



