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How to Camp Out
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Title: How to Camp Out
Author: John M. Gould
Release Date: January 22, 2006 [eBook #17575]
Language: English
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Hints for Camping and Walking.
HOW TO CAMP OUT.
by
JOHN M. GOULD,
Author of History of First-Tenth-Twenty-Ninth Maine Regiment.
First published in 1877
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER.
I. GETTING READY 9
II. SMALL PARTIES TRAVELLING AFOOT AND CAMPING 14
III. LARGE PARTIES AFOOT WITH BAGGAGE-WAGON 25
IV. CLOTHING 35
V. STOVES AND COOKING-UTENSILS 39
VI. COOKING 44
VII. MARCHING 50
VIII. THE CAMP 60
IX. TENTS, TENT POLES AND PINS 72
X. MISCELLANEOUS.--GENERAL ADVICE 90
XI. DIARY 107
XII. "HOW TO DO IT," BY REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, &C. 113
XIII. HYGI