
toward it. If double tents are used, 
the end of the car should be toward 
the wind, and that side of the tents 
staked down and all openings closed by 
extra waterproofs. It will occur to 
the tourist that the common automobile 
tents are faulty: in many particulars. 
Some tent makers are killing their own 
business by using cheap, coarse, filled 
material that can’t be waterproofed 
with anything but paint—and paint is 
miserable stuff on a tent. If one can 
see the sun shine through the tent can- 
vas, don’t buy it! Closely woven, 
loosely woven canvas, waterproofed 
with sek, parafine, or other material, 
which gives the tent a soft, slick sur- 
face from which the water rolls, with- 
out cracking or checking, is the best 
tent material. 
Tents should always open on the lee 
or down-wind side. This applies to 
cold, rain, or dust-laden winds. But it 
is worth while to go a long way, and 
over rough road, to get out of the 
wind, especially sand - laden wind, 
which plays hob with all the bearings 
and crevices of a car, as well as fills 
one’s grub and outfit with grit. 
Sometimes one can burn off the grass 
at a good place to camp. This is a 
good thing to do, but one doesn’t want 
to start forest or prairie fires. In a 
road fork, or where the grass is sur- 
rounded by rock, this can be done safe- 
ly enough. Such a fire is also useful in 
driving away insects. A big fire made 
with an old tree top, straw stack or 
other valueless thing, makes a big 
flame and the smoke may drive mos- 
quitoes away for a whole night. 
Many a camping party has been 
badly embarrassed by neglecting to 
look over a camp ground in order to 
pick a site clear of ant hills, hornet, 
or yellow jacket or bumble bee nests. 
Camps near stone heaps, old sod-houses, 
the tumble-down pony express stations 
along the Lincoln Highway, brush 
heaps, stone walls’ and abandoned 
houses sometimes have exceedingly un- 
welcome visitors. The tendency is to 
camp near these places, but the chances 
are many times increased of seeing 
snakes, scorpions, and other things as 
evil. One party at a tumble-down 
stage station killed more than a dozen 
rattlesnakes in their camp one night. 
A hundred yards distant on the open 
alkali they would have seen no snakes. 
I have a horror of midnight reptilian 
visitors, and have always avoided such 
places, with the result that I never saw 
a rattlesnake in the thousands of miles 
of desert travel. 
Bayonet cactus, Cherokee rose and 
all kinds of rubbish heaps are best 
avoided in making camp in snake or 
insect regions. A bare space in thick- 
ets may often serve for a good camp, 
where grass or other growth might 
invite pest invaders. 
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