The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-08

mirable kits have been placed on the
market by manufacturers who have
made a study of the requirements of the
trade. While one of these outfits would
lessen the work of the camper very ma
terially, yet it is not absolutely necessa-
ry. Hundreds of successful woodsmen
get along with nothing more than the
few serviceable home procured imple-
ments.
One of the most experienced campers
I ever met was a well known citizen of
Montreal, Captain Robert G. Adams.
Captain Adams is a leading free think
er in the Dominion. He owns upward
of so working copper, gold and silver
mines. In the course of his many years
of prospecting the captain has had
some interesting camping experiences.
He has experimental in the art of out
door living till he has reduced it to a
science.
Captain Adams mining properties
are located in Arizona, California and
British Columbia. His camping career
consequently has taken him through
the extremes of e and cold. In a
conversation a few days ago he said:
"A camping expedition when conducted
properly is n of the best pastimes to
be found. Great care, however, should
be taken in preserving the health of
members of the party. When miles
deep in sparsely settled country, med
ical aid is difficult to obtain. One of the
first thoughts of a camper should be to
carry a good stock of restoratives and
remedies. I know of several deaths re-
sulting from gunshot wounds and other
accidental injuries hat would never
have occurred had it not been for the
lack of proper means of relief.
Much care should be taken to obtain
thoroughly waterproof covering for
matches and powder. Many a 10 and
20 mile tramp through woods and over
mountains for supplies has been caused
by failure to keep the powder and
matches dry.
"The campers temporary home
should be put up with due regard to the
local conditions. A lean-to is the east
est and most satisfactory shelter. It
can be erected by three or four men in
an afternoon. The back of the lean-to
should always be placed toward the
point from which blow the prevailing
winds. In time of storm this measure
will be found to have many advantages.
Log cabins and tents are of common
usage. The former require too much
time in construction, while tents, no
matter how stoutly made, show a predi-
lection toward succumbling to violent
winds and the ubiquitous thunderstorm.
Camps are best located when near
running water. The lean-to, cabin or
tent should always be placed in a grove
of trees. The foliage IN trunks will be
found to be an agreeable shelter in Ell
Their rain, wind, or excessive heat"
Cruising is in many respects much
like camping. 1t is susceptible, how
ever, OF a number of variations. Yacht
n canoe cruising are probably the ia
vorites.
A yachting cruise should be unde
the guidance of a thoroughly competent
skipper. The taking of chances on a
pleasure voyage is inexcusable. The
fool killer is saved a lot of work every
year by scores of embryo sailors who
carry a whole mainsail in squally
weather. and who do not know a jib
sheet from a peak halyard.
Plenty Of food should be in the store
rooms of a cruising yacht. The excite
ment of sailing has, in Wall street par
lance, a bullish effect on the appetite.
A surprising quantity of edibles will
disappear in a couple of days on ship
board.
Last summer while cruising with
three college friends 1 had an adventure
which forcibly illustrated the value of
a literally filled larder. We had been
out for five or six days, sailing off the
Jersey coast. We then pointed up into
the northeast, thinking to strike Long
Island at a spot not far from Fire is
land, the last land visible to transatlan-
tic voyagers leaving New York harbor.
Our stores were rather low, and we
intended replenishing them when we