INFLATABLE BATH. 187 



Cording's Inflatable Bath. 



A portable bath is a great luxury, and those 

 of india-rubber, inflated with air, made by 

 Cording, 231, Strand, are by far the best I 

 have seen. 



When the inside area of the tent 



The Hammock. . , . 



is excavated, it is an easy matter to 



sling a hammock to ropes fixed to tent-pegs or 

 posts firmly driven into the ground, and in my 

 opinion this makes the most comfortable bed. 

 I always carry one of Cording's waterproof 

 hammocks with me, which, even if I cannot 

 sling it, serves me as a ground-sheet. 



Slung from a bamboo or pole, it makes a capital 

 stretcher for a sick or wounded man ; on the West 

 Coast of Equatorial Africa, where horses will not 



