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to receive your poles, and stretching your Russia duck 

 upon the latter, roll your blanket about you, and go to 

 sleep. 



An article called a California blanket, which is a blanket 

 with one side covered with gutta percha, and consequently 

 waterproof, will be found extremely useful on occasions 

 of encamping in the Canadian Wilds. 



Cold, heat, and wet are three things which in their ex- 

 tremes are very uncomfortable during an expedition to 

 the rivers. In order to guard against the former every 

 man should carry with him an abundance of flannel 

 garments of every description ; shirts, trowsers, drawers, &c., 

 and should have a fur coat or cloak to throw upon his bed 

 at night. But generally speaking an enormous fire of 

 fresh wood, which burns beautifully, is always kept up in 

 the centre of the camp, as well for the purpose of drying 

 the clothes which are wet from being used in wading, as 

 for warmth and culinary purposes. For cleanliness' sake, 

 however, it is better that the cooking should be confined 

 to a more limited apartment, and removed a little from the 

 sleeping and sitting tents. For preservation from heat, 

 cold, and wet in my tent, I have found a very simple con- 

 trivance to be very effectual ; and that is to make a double 

 bank tent of it, by erecting two additional uprights and a 

 cross pole as before, about four or five inches longer than 

 the former ones, immediately outside and over the tent ; 

 and then drawing over the cross-pole, and securing at each 



