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A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



cases, and can be used to carry clothes and 

 bedding, or anything that is required. I devised 

 this as I found stretchers always liable to break 

 and extremely uncomfortable to sleep upon. In 

 fact, they save certainly one, and probably two, 

 porters. I had the lid of one made rather deeper, 

 and used it throughout my journey as a bath. 

 The other two lids formed a table, as shown in the 

 figure, but I recommend regular legs, as shown in 



Fig. 48. — A Patent Bed. 



Fig. 48, instead of the eight plain sticks driven 

 into the ground which I used myself. Being 

 short in stature only three were required for me, 

 but in the figure I have shown four. 



The shape of the tin box adopted above is an 

 eminently useful one. I possess one made on this 

 principle, which has been many expeditions and is 

 still as good as ever. 



Before I started, I made many attempts to find 

 out what would be advisable to take, but I never 



