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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. HYGIENIC NOTES, BY DR. ELLIOTT COUES, U.S.A. 117

PREFACE.

In these few pages I have tried to prepare something about camping and
walking, such as I should have enjoyed reading when I was a boy; and,
with this thought in my mind, I some years ago began to collect the
subject-matter for a book of this kind, by jotting down all questions
about camping, &c., that my young friends asked me. I have also taken