14. THE EASTERN HUNTERS. 



the use of large tents, and travelled with as little 

 impedimenta as the nature of an Indian climate 

 and of the country permitted. 



The furniture within the tents consisted of a 

 small folding camp table of two pieces, which were 

 joined together for meals. This was common to all, 

 while each had for his own use a chair, a light four- 

 legged thing by courtesy called a bed, and a folding 

 three-footed stand for the metal washing-basin. The 

 latter stood outside, as being more convenient for 

 ablutionary purposes than in the limited dimensions 

 of the tent. A small folding looking-glass, too, 

 with much of the silvering erased, was suspended 

 in each tent, dangling to and fro with every flap of 

 the tent wall. For the rest, boxes, guns, and 

 clothing the latter hung around in convenient 

 disarray completed the picture of the interior. 

 Mackenzie inhabited the bechoba, which was also 

 the public meal-room, and the other two chummed 

 together in the rowtie. 



A few hunting spears fastened against the tents, 

 water choguls, and wetted cloth-covered bottles, 

 depending from the ropes, and large chatty pots 

 on the ground, were the only features peculiar to 

 the exterior which are deserving of notice. 



This, in India, would be considered light equip- 

 ment ; but it was sufficient for the hardy energetic 



