The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-08-17
RULES FOR CAMPING CT
What to Do and what Not to 10 on
GYPSY Trip.

What to Do and what Not to TO on s
GypSy Trip.
The first thing to be done in planning
a gypsy trip is to choose the kind o:
country and the season you can most
enjoy. Then decide whether to tramp
with your baggage on your back OIL
drawn in q horse wagon: whether tc
camp in one spot, or move from place
to place: and whether to spend much
money or little.
1t may be taken for granted that the
company is made mp OF good-humored
persons, that maps of the route have
been studied thoroughly, that the
leaders word is law, and hat each
comrade will give up his own wishes
and comfort for the good of all.
You will have, to begin with, a rare
chance to wear out old clothing. Long,
loose, wooden shirts, with collar-bands
of ~silesia, on which separate wooden
collars can be buttoned, are the best;
wear one, and carry one OF two more
for a change, or to wear double in cold
spells. Use loose, wooden drawers,
worn inside out, to keep the seams
from chafng you, and shoes that lace
well above the ankles, and have been
thoroughly treated with neat's-foot oil.
Let them nave iron, not steel nails.
Use false soles, if o like, and wear
socks or stockings of wool or merino
rather than of cotton. PantalOons
should be loose, high at the waist, and
of rather heavy cloth. If you have
been in the habit Of wearing ~suspenders,
1nnrf 1aoro fhono off now. won n hide
them very well by passing them through
holes cut low down in the shirt. Wear
what you please, if it be comfortable.
Don't try to carry more than twenty
pounds apiece or to go more than ten
miles a day on foot with a pack. This
is fully hard enough work, if you wish
to enjoy yourself without risk of i'll
ness. You will find the ''roll' better
than the knapsack in the long run, and
it is lighter by at least two pounds and
a half. To make the roll, lay out the
blanket fiat and roll it as tightly as
possible without folding it, putting in
the other baggage as you proceed; tie
1t in several places, and tie or strap the
ends together. Wear the ring thus
made yer your shoulder and around
your body. You may find it better to
fold the rubber blanket about the roll,
or roll it by itself, so as to carry it
linked in the other roll; you may need
it before camping, and will thus save
undoing the big roll.
The roll is easier to carry than is the
knapsack, and is readily shifted from
shoulder to shoulder, or taken off; then,
too, o Ia ease the burden a little
with your hand. Besides this, you
save carrying the weight of the KNAPP
sack. But, if you take aeknapsack, let
it nave broad straps. A h~aversack you
must, of course, have.
Besides a rubber blanket, half a shell
ter tent, and ropes, you must have a
stout wooden blanket, with a lining
sewed to it along one side, but but
toned on at the ends and other sides.
You can dry it, when wet, better than
if it were sewed all around. The items
of personal baggage are as follows:
Rubber blanket, 215 pounds; wooden
blanket and lining, ~ pounds: haver-
sack and canteen, ~ pounds; drawers,
shirts, socks, and collars, 2 pounds;
half a shelter tent and ropes, 2 pounds;
towels, soap, comb, toothbrush, salve,
air-tight match safe, knife, fork, spoon,
dipper, stationery, a good book, ETC.,
~ pounds; food for one day, 3 pounds;
total, IS pounds. Besides these, each
must carry his share of the company
baggage: Frying-pan, coffee pot and
pail, 3 pounds; Ratchet, tent pins,
sheath-knife, case and belt, 4 pounds;
clothes-brush mosquito netting, strings,
map guide books, compass. song book,
3 pounds; total, 10 pounds.
You can do a great deal of cooking
with a frying pan and a coffee pot after
a little experience. Have a coffee pot
with a ball as well as a handle, and
with a lip rather than a spout. Of
course you will know enough not to
put your pot or pan on the burning
wood, and not to use pitchy fuel, or let
the handles get hot Or smutty. Study
a cook book, and practice well at home
first, Or you will have to go hungry
when you least expect it.
Start a short time after breakfast,
while the day is yet young and cool,
but don't hurry and work hard at it.
On the march it is well to rest for short
spells-say, ten minutes out of every
hour. Drink good water as often as
you feel thirsty, only not much at a
time, and bear in mind that often you
can stop thirst by rinsing the mouth
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