Camps and Tramps About Ktaadn. 



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supported on poles. The front is quite open to the fire, not to speak 

 of the rain. The ground forming the floor is smoothed off and cov- 

 ered thickly with small boughs of evergreen ; upon these the rubber 

 and woolen blankets which form the beds are laid. The " Deacon's 

 seat," a, Fig. 1, answers almost every other purpose of domestic 

 furniture. Our store-house and dining-room was constructed of 

 round sticks, roofed and covered at one end with white cedar 

 "splints." The wash-stand was at c ; the bean-hole, e, will be far- 

 ther referred to. The camp-fire is laid on two "hand-chucks," i, i, 

 or on two suitable stones, and consists of logs from four to fourteen 

 inches in diameter and eight to fourteen feet long. Three-quarters 

 of a cord of wood are burned per day. Lying in a three-sided tent, 

 wrapped in blankets and water-proofs, with one's feet a length off 

 from such a fire, is protection against any sort of bad weather, and 

 yet it realizes every advantage of being out-of-doors. A temporary 

 tent may consist of a mere cloth or of boughs laid upon inclined 



