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 pains, when I have been off on a walk, or have been camping, to notice the parties of campers and trampers that I have chanced to meet, and have made a note of their failures or success. The experiences of the pleasant days when, in my teens, I climbed the mountains of Oxford County, or sailed through Casco Bay, have added largely to the stock of notes; and finally the diaries of "the war," and the recollections of "the field," have contributed generously; so that, with quotations, and some help from other sources, a sizable volume is ready.
Although it is prepared for young men,—for students more especially,—it contains much, I trust, that will prove valuable to campers-out in general.