CHAPTEE XL 



CAMPING OUT. 



The necessities and shifts of a life in the woods are 

 described in so many works on North American travel, 

 with exhaustive treatises on materiel and outfits, that it 

 becomes unnecessary to dilate on this topic. Indeed 

 there is not much to be said with regard to camping in 

 these eastern woodlands. Our expeditions never extend 

 very far from the base of supply, nor have we to contend 

 with such dangers as those incident on prairie travel. 



Everything necessary for the woods is to be got in the 

 stores of all the large provincial towns, and almost every 

 storekeeper will be able to inform the traveller of what he 

 wants in the way of tin ware and provisions, and how the 

 outfit should be packed. 



Bringing with him his particular fancies in the way of 

 breechloaders or the old style, he can get fair rods, quite 

 good enough for the rough work on American forest 

 streams, and good tackle and flies in either Halifax or St. 

 John s, where also a first-rate American click reel may be 

 got of German silver or bronzed aluminum. 



An elaborate canteen, with all its nicely-fitting arrange- 

 ments, got up for a Crimean or Abyssinian campaign, is 

 all very well, perhaps, for such purposes; but where tin- 

 smiths' shops are frequent at the starting point, no good 



