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Willesden canvas. For servants, what Edgington calls 

 a patrol tent, which is simply the same as the former, 

 only on a smaller scale, is very suitable. One more 

 of these may also be carried for light-marching order 

 when small expeditions are made from the main 

 camp. For the large tent a camp-bed and folding 

 table and chair may be taken, and for light-marching 

 order an air-bed of the stoutest make and largest 

 size should be taken, for besides being a most com- 

 fortable bed to sleep on when camped on hard or 

 wet ground, if two be carried in the outfit they will 

 be found most useful in negotiating unfordable rivers 

 where no boats are available. A framework can be 

 made of tent-poles, willow, tamarisk, or what not, 

 lashed on to the two inflated air-beds, and a raft 

 good enough to cross most rivers can be made. 

 Rafts of this sort are made by Asiatics, who use 

 inflated goat-skins instead of air-beds for flotation. 

 Ground-sheets and kit-bags of Willesden canvas are 

 also most useful and durable. 



For shooting in India, where camel, cart, or 

 elephant transport can be procured, double fly-tents, 

 which can be made better in India than anywhere 

 else, should be taken. The sportsman should always 

 bear in mind that the more comfortable he is in 

 camp, the more work he can do when he is out, and 

 the longer he can go on with it. For the same 

 reason he should outfit himself well in the way of 

 food. If a horse is worked hard he should be well 

 fed and stabled, and this rule applies equally to man 

 and beast. The system of roughing it is all very 



