PRACTICAL POINTS ON CAMPING OUT. 56 I 



hair, the latter being generally preferable. If, however, you 

 are traveling with a small pack-train, where every inch and 

 every ounce of weight must be carefully considered, a good 

 substitute for a civilized pillow is made by placing a couple 

 of suits of underwear in a flour-sack. They should be folded 

 carefully and laid in smooth, so that there may be no lumps 

 or wrinkles, and in this way they make a very fair pillow for 

 a tired man. When it becomes necessary to wear them, you 

 wash your others and put them in the bag in place of those 

 you have taken out. 



The rubber pillow cannot be recommended. It is not so 

 bulky as a feather-pillow, it is true, but is fully as heavy and 

 not so comfortable to sleep on. 



A rubber blanket is a good thing to have along to spread 

 on the ground under your bed, if you do not use a cot, or to 

 spread over your cot if you have one. It prevents dampness 

 and cold from coming from the ground into your bed. It 

 will also be found useful to roll your bedding in while travel- 

 ing, to protect it from rain and dust. 



Two or three sheets of water-proof canvas, each four feet 

 wide and eight feet long, are useful in camp for various pur- 

 poses. One of them should be over your bed. It is good 

 protection against cold winds and against rain, if you have to 

 camp without a tent, as is sometimes necessary. Others are 

 useful for covering up saddles and other property in camp, 

 and to spread over the packs while traveling. When thus 

 used they are called manteaus. 



For winter-camping, in cold climates, a buffalo robe is 

 useful, but under any other circumstances, is an unnecessary 

 incumbrance. 



If you have not a canvas-cot or a mattress, always procure 

 pine, hemlock, fir or cedar boughs for a foundation for your 

 bed, if in a country where they can be had. If not, then 

 brush of almost any kind is better than the hard ground. If 

 none of these can be had, get hay, straw, rushes, grass, or even 



