The complete apparatus, in a very portable form, can be bought at Messrs. Brown’s, Piccadilly.

Mosquito Nets and their Substitutes.—­A mosquito-curtain may be taken for suspension over the bed, or place where you sit; but it is dangerous to read in them by candle-light, for they catch fire very easily. (See “Incombustible Stuffs.”) It is very pleasant, in hot, mosquito-plagued countries, to take the glass sash entirely out of the window-frame, and replace it with one of gauze.  Broad network, if of fluffy thread, keeps wasps out.  The darker a house is kept, the less willing are flies, etc., to flock in.  If sheep and other cattle be hurdled-in near the house, the nuisance of flies, etc., becomes almost intolerable.

Chairs.—­It is advisable to take very low strong and roomy camp-stools, with tables to correspond in height, as a chamber is much less choked up when the seats are low, or when people sit, as in the East, on the ground.  The seats should not be more than 1 foot high, though as wide and deep as an ordinary footstool.  Habit very soon reconciles travellers to this; but without a seat at all, a man can never write, draw, nor calculate as well as if he had one.  The stool represented in the figure (above), is a good pattern:  it has a full-sized seat made of canvas or leather, or of strips of dressed hide.  A milk-man’s stool, supported by only one peg, is quickly made in the bush, and is not very inconvenient.  The common rush-bottomed chair can be easily made, if proper materials are accessible.  The annexed diagram explains clearly the method of their construction.

Table.—­The table may consist of a couple of boards, not less than 2 feet long, by 9 inches broad, hinged lengthwise, for the convenience of carriage, and resting on a stand, which should be made on the same principle as the framework of the chair described above.  It is well to have the table made of mahogany, for deal warps and cracks excessively.  There is no difficulty in carrying furniture like the above, on a pack-horse.

Makeshift Chair and Table.—­For want of a chair, it is convenient to dig a hole or a trench in the ground, and to sit on one side of it, with the feet resting on its bottom:  the opposite side of the trench serves as a table, on which things may be put, within easy reach.

“In a box 2 feet long and 1 foot square at the ends, the lid and its bottom, of course, both measure 2 feet by 1 foot.  Now, if the bottom opens on hinges, just like the lid, and if the hinges of both lid and bottom are fixed to the hindmost side of the box, then when the box is laid face downwards, and both the lid and the bottom are opened out and secured in the same horizontal plane with the side to which they are hinged, a table of 3 feet by 2 feet is made.  The lid and bottom form the two leaves of the table, and what was the hindmost side, when the box stood on its bottom, is now uppermost, and forms the middle of the table.  Such a box would hold, during travel, the things wanted when encamping.”  —­(Peal.)