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business to do, unless perhaps in the extreme hot 

 weather when no trees are available to pitch it under. 

 It affords room enousjh for a light foldino; bedstead of 

 bamboo, a cane stool, a small folding table, a brass 

 basin and stand, and your portmanteau and guns, which 

 is all the furnishing that the mere sportsman or explorer 

 should require. All this, with a good supply of such 

 eatables and drinkables as are not to be had in the 

 wilderness, will go on a good camel ; and such had been 

 the extent of my personal requirements during many a 

 rough expedition and hunting trip before the present 

 march. On this occasion I added another tent twelve 

 feet square, for the servants and a few newly-entertained 

 native foresters who were to assist in my explorations ; 

 and we were also furnished with a somewhat larger 

 double-roofed tent by Government, which was to be 

 pitched on the hill as a depot while the contemplated 

 masonry lodge was being erected. To carry these 

 additional impedimenta I had four or five of the rough 

 little unshod and unkempt country ponies, called tattoos 

 — hardy little villains, whom no amount of work can 

 tire out of immediate readiness for a daily battle royal 

 with teeth and heels the moment they are cast loose 

 from their loads to graze. 



My own tent travelled as usual upon a camel. I 

 don't think I would have ventured to take any other 

 camel but "Junglee" into the country I was going to visit. 

 Though the camel is far more at home in rough and 

 difficult country than his ungainly-looking formation 

 would lead one to suppose, there are many passes in 

 the Mdhadeo hills where these animals cannot carry 

 their loads, and some where they could not proceed at 



