The hooked pots will hang on the sides or front of the stove. When not required for cooking, put on the round cast top; the large oval box will hold the fuel.

Directions

The articles to be put into the stove for Packing. in the following order: 1st-Deep dish and toasting oven. 2nd-Meat dish. 3rdFrying pan. 4th-Boiling pot, in which place the two hooked pots, oval boxes, and pepper box. (The oval bottles will go into the hooked pots.) 5th-The tea kettle, in which place the porringer. 6th-The stove, funnel pipes, and elbows to be placed within the case. The oval pan forms the

cover.

On the opposite page is an engraving of a very compact and useful little dinner apparatus; knife, fork, and spoon, each closing up like a pocketknife, and fitting, with salt, pepper, and mustardpots, into a leather case, which, when rolled up, is contained in the drinking-cup. The whole fits into a compact leather case, which can be strapped to the saddle.

Tent

Furniture.

Dinner Apparatus.

A portable bedstead, as made by

B. Edgington, of 2, Duke Street, Lon

don Bridge (vide Plate, page 186). is not a bad

investment, but as I always carry a pair of bullock trunks when I intend to indulge in luxuries, I prefer to fix a canvas stretcher with an iron frame-work between them, which forms a very comfortable bed (vide Plate below).

By this latter arrangement my goods and gear in the boxes are tolerably safe from pilferers, and no one can meddle with them whilst I sleep without first trying conclusions with their

A portable bath is a great luxury, and those of india-rubber, inflated with air, made by Cording, 231, Strand, are by far the best I have seen.

When the inside area of the tent

The Hammock. is excavated, it is an easy matter to sling a hammock to ropes fixed to tent-pegs or posts firmly driven into the ground, and in my opinion this makes the most comfortable bed. I always carry one of Cording's waterproof hammocks with me, which, even if I cannot sling it, serves me as a ground-sheet.

Slung from a bamboo or pole, it makes a capital stretcher for a sick or wounded man; on the West Coast of Equatorial Africa, where horses will not