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with a canvas cap. A stout post may be set up in the 

 centre with a few nails on which to hang clothes. This 

 tent should only be used at a permanent camp ; and for 

 travelling, the ordinary tent with a ridge-pole, as more 

 accurately described hereafter, is preferable ; a piece of 

 oiled cloth laid over sticks planted slanting in the ground, 

 will keep off the rain and dew. 



A round tent of twenty-four feet in circumference will 

 not accommodate more than two men luxuriously, where- 

 as one of double that circumference will hold five times 

 the number. A large tent is a great comfort and not 

 much trouble. A separate tent should of course be 

 taken for your men, and another simple one for a make- 

 shift and a dining-room. To arrange the latter is your 

 first care on arriving at your permanent camping-ground, 

 the table is of bark, either birch or spruce, nailed fast to 

 posts, and shielded by some protection from the rain ; 

 the seats are either a large log or the barrels you have 

 brought with you to carry stores and fish, or else stools 

 ingeniously chipped from the trunks of trees with the 

 branches for legs. A dressing-stand is then arranged, 

 with a wash-basin made of birch bark ; the fire-place is 

 rigged up with a ridge-pole supported on two notched 

 sticks, and with a hooked withe to support the kettle, 

 and your sylvan home is furnished. 



To support and gratify the inner man, it is well to 

 have with you all conceivable little delicacies, such as 

 nutmegs, allspice, preserved fruits, meats and vegetables, 

 sweet oil, lemons and raisins, sardines, chocolate, citric 

 acid and ginger ; but the necessaries are clear salt pork, 

 flour, rice, oat-meal and Indian-meal, coffee, tea, brown 



