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been better. More than once I have found it a welcome shield 

 from the rain. 



The tent frame is in three pieces, two upright poles or stakes 

 with folding cross-bars, and an adjustable ridge-pole. The 

 stakes should be from six to six and a half feet long, and may 

 be easily lengthened at any time, as when the tent is to be 

 pitched in a swamp or over mud and water. They are pointed 

 at the lower ends which are set in the ground, and capped 

 above with an arch of sheet iron to receive the ridge-pole. The 

 latter is held in place with two pins or wire nails, which are 

 pressed through a hole in the iron cap, and through the end 

 of the ridge-pole into the upright stake. The eaves of the 

 tent consist of a double fold of cloth projecting half an inch, 

 to each corner of which is sewn a covered brass ring. When 

 in position the tent is firmly guyed by small cords fastened to 

 each ring. The flaps are placed at one of the corners, and may 

 be pinned together when in use. The free lower border of the 

 tent is fixed to the ground by wire pins, which may be pushed 

 through the cloth at convenient places. From four to eight 

 of these pins are needed, and each should be seven or eight inches 

 long, and have a large soldered loop at one end. 1 



The tent may be ventilated from above and made more com- 

 fortable on hot days by cutting out a large flap on each side of 

 the roof, extending this a foot or less, and then guying each 

 comer separately, at such an angle as to admit a free passage 



'For the benefit of the worker in the field I will add the following 

 additional details: Frame of smaller tent; poles, 6 ft. long, i inch wide, f 

 inch thick ; cross-pieces, joined to upright pole 2 1 inches from top by a screw 

 on which they have full play, to be folded when not in use, 3 ft. inch 

 long, f inch wide, and \ inch thick; ridge-pole, 3 ft. 8 inches long, f inch 

 wide by f inch thick, with flat top, rounded only where they fit into the 

 arched iron caps of poles. 



Larger tent. A second and somewhat larger tent, which is more con- 

 venient for the use of larger cameras, was later made of green and white 

 poplin, and is 6 ft. loj inches tall, 3 ft. 4 inches wide, and 3 ft. 8 inches 

 long; peak 21 inches in vertical height from eaves. Tent-poles, 6$ ft. 

 tall; cross-pieces, 3 ft. 4 inches long; ridge-pole, 3ft. 8 inches long, all 

 made of pine and slightly heavier than in smaller tent. 



