June io, igii.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
891 
Camping 
By WILLIAM H. HOLDEN 
VI.—SUPPLIES FOR A LARGE PARTY. 
W E now come to the period in our camping 
life when we are over 65 and have to 
be comfortable and avoid hard trips. 
We now sleep on air beds, which are very fine 
if you blow them up only enough to just keep 
off the ground when you sit on the bed. In our 
warehouse one of our guides tried one that was 
blown up too much, and we found him sleeping 
on the floor in the morning. Air pillows are 
too hard. We use a small down pillow. We 
use teams to do all the moving of the duffle and 
to bring us into and out of camp. We have two 
home camps, two cooks, two cook stoves and 
outfits, and limit our party so that all may have 
a good time. One home camp is down river and 
the other quite a distance above, so that we can 
fish from both camps and not fish over each 
other s ground. We have Sunday dinners to¬ 
gether and visit occasionally so as to keep posted 
as to the doings of each party. Our expenses 
are greater than they used to be on account of 
having more help and more teaming. It costs 
us about six dollars each per day, not including 
railroad fare nor the outfit for personal use. 
Each party has three boats and a permanent 
kitchen with tar paper roof and canvas sides. 
We have a warehouse at the mouth of the river 
where our boats and outfit are stored for the 
winter. Our guides go in a few days ahead of 
us and get the home camp in order so that when 
we arrive after a thirty-six mile drive with the 
teams, we have a comfortable camp to get into. 
We fish up and down from our home camp, and 
after that becomes monotonous, take a trip fur¬ 
ther away for a week or ten days. 
We always take what we have invariably found 
sufficient in the way of medicines as follows: 
Pond’s extract or Humphrey’s Marvel of Heal¬ 
ing, arnica jelly, whiskey, blackberry brandy, nux 
vomica, surgeons’ court plaster, camphor pills, 
digest tablets and laxative pills. 
Our supplies for ten men for forty days are 
as follows: Forty pounds table butter, 30 pounds 
cottolone, 30 pounds ground coffee in tins, 4 
pounds green Japan tea, 50 pounds white corn- 
meal, 180 pounds bacon in canvas, 80 pounds 
granulated sugar, 20 pounds brown sugar, 20 
cakes ivory soap, 9 gallons maple syrup, 5 gal¬ 
lons kerosene, 6 quarter-pound cans ground black 
pepper, 10 pounds shaker salt, 1 pint vinegar, 3 
barrels potatoes, 6 packages yeast foam, 6 quar¬ 
ter barrel sacks flour, 25 pounds rye flour, 16 
half-pound cans baking powder, 5 pounds cod¬ 
fish (for use by one having dysentery), 6 dozen 
grocers’ matches, 3 dozen wind matches, 2 dozen 
plain baked beans, 2 dozen succotash, 4 dozen 
regular size highland cream (get more if break¬ 
fast food is used), r / 2 pound saleratus, 4 pack¬ 
ages sheet toilet paper, 20 pounds rice, 5 pounds 
raisins, 5 pounds prunes, 12 packages shredded 
wheat, 12 packages cornflakes, 2 bottles chow- 
chow, 2 dozen peaches, 2 dozen sardines for 
lunches, y 2 pound borax for washing flannels, 1 
pint viscol for boots, 5 pounds soda crackers, 5 
pounds pilot bread, 5 pounds evaporated apples, 
1 gallon mixed pickles, 2 bushels onions, one 
Edam cheese, one bottle each of ground ginger, 
cinnamon and allspice, 6 candles, 2 pints olives, 
2 small bottles Worcestershire sauce, 1 tabasco, 1 
horseradish, 6 tumblers currant jelly; as the 
tumblers are emptied, use them on the table. 
After several trips you have tumblers in camp. 
With these supplies and a reasonable quantity 
of trout and some game you will have plenty, 
and no great amount to give to your help on 
breaking camp. If your potatoes get wet or 
damp, sort and dry them. Hang your bacon in 
your supply tent and put it out in the sun occas¬ 
ionally to prevent it from gathering mou'd. 
Ship your supplies in boxes, take off the tops 
and place them one above the other, open top 
out and you will be able to get at them. Keep 
the lower tier off the ground with sticks of wood. 
Keep a small dog in camp; if he is any good 
he will keep away night prowlers. Many dogs 
will securely stay inside at night and are worth¬ 
less except for the tent they are in. If porcu¬ 
pine quills get into the dog or elsewhere, re¬ 
move them without delay, as they are barbed for 
about a half inch of the point and work in with 
the movement of the muscles and become dan¬ 
gerous. If a porkey gets into your tent, do not 
molest him, as you will scatter the quills. Get 
a light and put it near him, and let him go out, 
which he will speedily do. Keep out of the 
doorway, as he is apt to rush out and leave his 
quills in your shins. He switches his tail, which 
is heavily armed with quills. You cannot kill 
him or seriously wound him by shooting, unless 
you hit him in the head or in his spine, and 
pounding on his back is useless unless you pound 
hard enough to break his back, which I have 
never been able to do. I have had them get 
away after several close shots from behind with 
expanding pistol bullets. Do not shoot them 
while they are in your tents, as you will shoot 
up your outfit, as I did when I shot one that 
was in a frying-pan. 
Our latest and best boats are flat bottom, 
seventeen feet long, forty-five inches wide at 
the middle, pointed at both ends; fourteen inches 
high in center, sixteen at bow and seventeen at 
stern, shear to correspond with top of boat and 
to extend five feet from bow and three feet from 
stern, balance of bottom flat. This makes a 
steady boat for fishing and an easy one to push 
up a rapid trout stream. Poling oars should 
be twelve feet long, have a metal point and be 
light. If your river has rocks, the boat should 
have an iron strip around the outside edge of 
the bottom, or it will wear through and leak. 
Do not sleep in any of the clothes you wear 
in the day time. Have a warm set of pajamas 
and you will feel much better than if you sleep 
in any of the clothes you have worn during the 
day. 
Our list of personal outfit other than fishing 
and hunting articles is as follows: Warm dress¬ 
ing gown, belt and large towels for bath, slip¬ 
pers, two blankets or rather quilts, light and 
large; rubber bed, rubber sheets for keeping 
duffle dry, rubber duffle bag, pillow and cases, 
two nightcaps (one warm), two hats, one warm 
cap, flannels, camping shirts, handkerchiefs, part 
woolen socks, razor, two camp suits, light gloves, 
sweater, rubber boots, rubber seat, towels, grip 
for brush, comb, headnets, white shirts to wear 
out of the woods; toilet soap, tooth paste, shoe- 
pacs, extra shoes, comb and brush, safety pins, 
shipping tags, copper wire, thread, buttons; pen, 
ink, stamps and stationery, umbrella for sun or 
rain going in and out, hand glass, overcoat, camp 
watch, check book, cork screw, night light, mos¬ 
quito dope, drinking cup, set of pocket tools. 
Do not wash flannels in warm water, as they 
will shrink Use two tablespoons of borax to 
one cake of soap dissolved equally for two small 
washings. Use cold water, rinse and hang to 
dry, but do not wring them out. 
Your camp outfit should include boats, poling 
oars and paddles, 100 feet of rope, 10 yards 
cotton cloth, 10 yards cheese cloth, 30 yards 
toweling, 5 pounds black pitch, roll cotton bat¬ 
ting, two mosquito nets, reflecting oven to keep 
things warm, stove, fireless cooker, coffee pots, 
axes, hatchets, corkscrew, tents, washboard, fry¬ 
ing-pans with covers, plates, cups and saucers, 
knives, forks and spoons, water pails, stew kettle, 
chairs, sponges for boat, cord, twine, screw 
driver, nails, tacks and screws, covered butter 
dish, covered sugar bowl, muffin tins, pie plates, 
tablespoons, teapot, 4-quart pan, dripping pan, 
teakettle, small tin pails, cooking rack to. cook 
over camp-fire coals, side dishes, table dishes for 
potatoes, etc., with covers, butcher knife, clothes 
line and pins, lanterns, oil table cloth, broiler, 
dish pan, wash dishes, syrup holder, salts and 
peppers, folding tables, traps for porcupines, etc., 
canisters, hay cock covers to keep out cold at 
night over your feet and for a carpet in front 
part of } f our tent in muddy weather, cedar saw, 
spade, tarpaulins to keep your supplies dry in 
wet weather and a can opener. 
For guides, get those who know the country 
and have worked on the drive. Get a good camp 
cook who will wear white aprons and use a pit 
for his slops, and who will get his own fire 
wood and who can use the duffle boat. Do not 
get one who is afraid of bears, because he will 
not stay at your camp alone—the little dog will 
make it more agreeable for him to stay. Have 
the cook or one of the guides bring in a dog 
that is used to camping in the woods. 
Arrange for your mail and distress telegrams 
to be speedily delivered and arrange a speedy 
and safe way out of camp for anyone who be¬ 
comes ill or has an accident. 
Have a dock built at your boat landing with 
steps to it if the bank is high and steep. While 
moving, stop for camp early so that you may 
get settled for the night before dark. 
Watch for storms when going out or when 
moving. To do so, note where the wind comes 
from and the clouds in that direction. Watch 
a small cloud for a while, and if it gets larger, 
rain is quite sure to be on the way. Do not 
camp within reach 1 of any dead trees, unless 
your guide can assure you that they will fall 
away from your tents. Do not camp in the 
woods; that is, not where the trees overhang 
your camp, but get into some open spot, because 
limbs are often falling in the woods. 
In a thunderstorm do not seek refuge under 
a tree, but rather under a log or fallen tree. 
When crossing an old bridge, get out and walk, 
so that if it goes down you will not be injured 
and will be able to assist in the rescue. 
