CHAPTER VII. 



TENTS AND ENCAMPMENTS. 



The Danger of being exposed to the Night Air without Shelter 

 The Regulation Bell Tent Officers' Bell Tent The Eound 

 Wall Tent The Marquee or Mess Tent The Tent of the 

 French Army Shooting Tent Edgington's Improved Mili- 

 tary Tent " The Old Shekarry's Wigwam " Tent Pegs 

 How to pitch a Tent Tent Furniture The Encampment 

 The Camp Guard. 



I SHALL now enter upon the subject of tents, for 

 much of a traveller's comfort depends upon his 

 having a commodious shelter impervious to wind 

 or weather, sufficiently portable to be always car- 

 ried with him, which, unfortunately for our poor 

 soldiers, Government tents are not. Many a 

 thousand brave fellows have been laid under the 



