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Tinned cakes. 



Tinned dripping for cooking. 



Lime juice cordial. 



Sparklets and bottle. 



Tinned milk, sweet or otherwise, or dried milk. 



Chocolate-and-milk in tins. 



Tea in half-pound lead packets. 



Sugar in air-tight tin, or " saccharine." 



Chocolate sticks. 



Anything else you may fancy, with due regard to transport 

 difficulties. 



A 9 by 7 fly tent of Willesden canvas, having the fly extended 

 to form a verandah, will prove quite big enough and very com- 

 fortable for two people. Without a verandah, under which to place 

 your table and chairs, it will be a squeeze for two but ample for 

 one. Such a tent, including the poles, will form a full load for 

 three men, as it will weigh about 120 Ibs. all in, not counting 

 holding-down pegs, which there is no need to carry in Ceylon, as 

 any amount of pegs can be cut in the jungle when wanted. I think, 

 however, given a good waterproof fly, the whole inner tent could be 

 made of cotton drill, which would lighten it very considerably. 

 There is no need in Ceylon for the side-walls, for instance, being 

 made of strong, heavy, waterproof material. 



As regards the poles, I only carry the ridge pole, having been 

 able to dispense with the uprights by adopting an ingenious dodge 

 of my friend Wallace Westland's. 



Each ordinary tent pole is fitted with a metal spike at the top 

 end, to carry the ridge pole and, guy-rope knob. To do away with 

 the pole, Westland got his estate blacksmith to make a spike, same 

 size as that on the poles, attached to a taper iron socket about 7 or 8 

 inches in length, and about the same diameter as a tent pole at the 

 lower open end. 



The idea is, arrived at your camping ground, to cut poles in the 

 jungle the same length as your tent poles, taper one end, slip the 

 taper end into one of these sockets, and there is your upright com- 

 plete, pole and spike. 



The advantage is that the poles so cut need not necessarily be 

 perfectly straight, so that any pole long enough will do, whilst, in 

 the case of my tent, the saving in weight effected was 17 Ibs. 



The two waterproof sheets have brass eyes and guy-ropes along 

 the narrow ends, and are used as tents for the men and kitchen by 

 fixing them up as ridge tents over a jungle stick ridge pole, tied to 

 two trees or "scissors " legs the latter being two long jungle poles 



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