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with water. On a mountain it ought to occupy the lee of a 

 rock or a bluff, and in a forest should be placed amidst the 

 shrubbery, for if pitched under a tree the latter is liable to be 

 hurled down by a fierce gust of wind and to do the occupants 

 some injury. This rule does not apply, however, to the dense 

 woods of Oregon and Washington Territory, as wind storms 

 are rare in that region, and the most violent that ever 

 blew seem incapable of tearing up the arboreal giants that 

 cover the ground there for an area of many thousands of 

 square miles. 



If the camp is located near a river, care should be taken that 

 it is not inundated during the freshets which occur in all of 

 them in May or June, and in many of them after a heavy 

 rainfall. To provide against such an accident it should be 

 established some distance away from the banks, and, if possible, 

 on sloping ground or a crest. No hard and fast rules can be 

 followed in all cases ; hence, persons must depend on their own 

 judgment as to where it would be best to pitch a camp; so 

 the precautions given are only to suggest that where it is 

 convenient they might be followed to advantage. 



It is necessary that persons should make themselves as 

 comfortable as they can in camp, if hunting would not become 

 a toilsome labour instead of a buoyant, virile pleasure. I 

 would therefore intimate to sportsmen to take as much variety 

 of condensed food with them as they think necessary for the 

 trip, for it is not only palatable but it is almost necessary to 

 health, and is, besides, exceedingly portable. Condensed milk 

 and coffee, pressed tea, sugar, self-leavening flour, dessi- 

 cated eggs, some canned fruits, crackers, pepper, salt, and 

 onions, pickles, ham, pork, beans, and potatoes, should form the 

 larger portion of commissariat of all expeditions, and when to 

 these are added edible wild roots and herbs, and succulent 

 fresh meat and delicious trout, a party may live as happily in 

 the wilderness, and thrive better than if they were quartered 

 in the best hostelry in the world. 



The cooking utensils should include a kettle, a frying-pan, a 

 pot, a broiler, and a tea-pot, and the table appendages should 

 embrace tin plates, tin or plated cups, knives and forks, spoons, 

 a pepper and salt box and a syrup caddy ; and the whole, 



