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And he creeps into his blanket-bag, backs softly out to the outside man, and joins the snorers. It is broad daylight when he again turns out, leaving the rest still sleeping soundly.
I made calculations on losing the trail the first day and being out a full week. The outfit consisted of rifle, hatchet, compass, blanket-bag, knapsack and knife. For rations, one loaf of bread, two quarts of meal, two pounds of pork, one pound of sugar, with tea, salt, etc. and a supply of jerked venison.
will report to Lieut. J. T. Thompson, ordnance officer, for duty in connection with the Gatling Gun Battery. "These men will be fully equipped, with the exception of rifle, bayonet, scabbard, and blanket-bag, and will be rationed to include May 31, 1898. "By order of Colonel Smith. "M. McFarland, "1st Lieut. 13th Infty., Adjutant." These men were selected by their company commanders.
Hudson made tea, I coffee, and we then retired each one to his blanket-bag, the Taugwalders, Lord Francis Douglas and myself occupying the tent, the others remaining, by preference, outside. Long after dusk the cliffs above echoed with our laughter and with the songs of the guides, for we were happy that night in camp, and feared no evil.
Round this lamp the hunters circled, each seated on his blanket-bag, and each attended to the duty which devolved upon him.
As I am usually credited with making a cruise or a long woods tramp with exceptionally light duffle, I will give a list of the articles I take along going on foot over carries or through the woods. THE clothing, blanket-bag and shelter-cloth are all that need be described in that line.
It holds over half a bushel, carries blanket-bag, shelter-tent, hatchet, ditty-bag, tinware, fishing tackle, clothes and two days' rations. It weighs, empty, just twelve ounces. The hatchet and knives shown in the engraving will be found to fill the bill satisfactorily so far as cutlery may be required.
West had already crawled into his blanket-bag, and was stretched out like a mummy on the floor, and the sound of Meetuck's jaws still continued as he winked sleepily over the walrus meat, when a scraping was heard outside the hut. "Sure, it's the foxes; I'll go and look," whispered O'Riley, laying down his pipe and creeping to the mouth of the tunnel.
My own load, including canoe, extra clothing, blanket-bag, two days' rations, pocket-axe, rod and knapsack, never exceeded 26 pounds; and I went prepared to camp out any and every night.
West had already crawled into his blanket-bag, and was stretched out like a mummy on the floor, and the sound of Meetuck's jaws still continued as he winked sleepily over the walrus-meat, when a scraping was heard outside the hut. "Sure, it's the foxes; I'll go and look," whispered O'Riley, laying down his pipe and creeping to the mouth of the tunnel.
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