496 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 



Overlap at corners should be 3 inches wide ; lace down corner, and toggles 



inside. 

 Pockets : all along each wall. 

 Pegs: galvanised iron, 10 inches long. 

 Mallet : iron. 

 Poles : jointed, ridge-pole bayonet-socketed, otherwise it will be found, as 



the material stretches, the pole parts and the tent collapses when being 



pitched. 

 Runners of |- inch thick hard wood — they are often made too thin, and 

 become useless after a little wear. 



Camp Furniture. 



Chairs : an " Ibea" green canvas seat and bent wood arms. A fairly light 



deck chair. 

 Bedstead : compactum, 6 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. 

 Bedding : a green canvas sheet 9 feet by 5 feet ; coloured blankets (in the 

 highlands of Abyssinia frost will be encountered) ; a khaki twill bag, 

 the width of the bed, carries your clothes and does for a bolster. A 

 small pillow (do not take air or wire) with khaki cases. 



Mosquito-curtains: of khaki -coloured net, pent-shaped, to hook up 

 over bed in tent ; or, when sleeping outside or in a room, to be 

 supported by two sticks. 

 To pack : make the bed, fold the canvas over the sides, and lift on 

 to ground, fold bedstead and roll in centre of bedding, put 2 broad 

 straps round, roll into loose sacking cover. The bed can then be 

 made ready in a very few minutes on arrival in camp ; no small 

 advantage sometimes. 

 Basin : tinned iron, not enamelled. 



Bath : a galvanised iron one, with a light basket fitted inside to carry tools, 

 skin-curing materials, etc., outside a strong basket, covered with leather 

 and wooden lid. The chief use of this is for boiling heads ; tubliing 

 and washing clothes coming second. 

 Lantern : a square, well-made, tin candle -lantern, with talc slides, in 

 wooden box with rope handle. 



A folding lantern weighs more, is troublesome for natives to set up, 



and unless space is an object, has no advantages. 

 A tin box gets bent and useless. An oil lamp for camp 1 abominate. 

 Table : I have never yet found a really satisfactory camp table — simple, 

 strong, light and rigid; the "Uganda" table fulfils the first three of 

 these conditions, but is not firm, 36 inches by 20 inches is a good size. 



