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Page 3 - I crossed the Prairees of America. My first experience of Camping was above the wooded slope on the plateau behind Kairkock on the Mississippi, when a lad of nine. There, 300 of us camped in tents and wagons, which camp lasted for about five weeks. It remains the longest 'fixed camp' that I have attended, but it was only the beginning of a prolongation, for it was a case of Camping entirely across the prairees over a distance of 1,200 miles, and it lasted from the Spring until August. The plains...
Page 25 - Here the family and their servants were spending a 'savage' holiday. The scenery was pleasant and they were adjacent to a town. I asked if they liked it, for they have a fine home on a beautiful lake... They were having a delightful time. The brown limbs of the children, the bronzed faces of the parents and grown-up branches of the family, the enjoyment of the servants and the 'handy-man', all was complete. At the end of a month they were not tired, but were counting with regret the remaining days...
Page 5 - ... practically an impossible machine with which to camp', he welcomed the invention of the modern 'safety' bicycle), and finally in April 1906, of the National Camping Club. These were immediately successful organizations, and Holding wrote in his Cycle and Camp, that 'It is now clear that the poor clerk or workman who wishes to see fresh countries at home and abroad, may gratify his whim and have a fine holiday on the weekly expenditure of his pocket money and be independent of weather, distance,...
Page 3 - ... Kairkock on the Mississippi, when a lad of nine. There, 300 of us camped in tents and wagons, which camp lasted for about five weeks. It remains the longest 'fixed camp' that I have attended, but it was only the beginning of a prolongation, for it was a case of Camping entirely across the prairees over a distance of 1,200 miles, and it lasted from the Spring until August. The plains were then uninhabited save for a few wandering tribes of Indians, probably a million antelopes, and possibly half-a-million...
Page 3 - ... the Rockies, back to the States, closed that experience. A good many years passed. I was engaged to lecture in Sunderland on the subject of 'Muscular Christianity' in the Spring of 1877. It led to the purchase of a canoe, the canoe led to Camping and to a canoe cruise in the Highlands of Scotland... From 1877 to 1907 is 30 years, during which, on every conceivable opportunity, and in 95 per cent of all the counties of Great Britain and Ireland, camping has continued without a break. (TH Holding,...
Page 25 - ... may gratify his whim and have a fine holiday on the weekly expenditure of his pocket money and be independent of weather, distance, or, to him, the prohibitive tariff of hotels.'1 And in his subsequent Campers' Handbook, he stressed the joys of the family camp, though hardly that of a poor family: I have just visited an ideal family camp. It is on an island in a river. There was the eating tent, the sleeping tent, the servant's tent, the cooking tent for wet weather, and the over-boat tent. Here...
Page 121 - ... recent book on practical forestry also coming from my old University, in which one of the disadvantages of natural regeneration is stated to be that "the next rotation must be of the same species." Further, after summarising the conditions under which British forestry exists, it concludes — " that it is not worth while to go out of our way to develop a system of regeneration which has questionable advantages and clear disadvantages. Only where it is desired to maintain a type of forest which...
Page 181 - Sea, the mountainous ridges run transversely either from the east to the west, or from the north-east to the south-west, in the same direction as the portion of the Nile comprised between Abu-Hamed and Dabbeh. Some of these ridges are continuous ; such, for instance, as that of the " Cataracts," which forms the natural barrier between Nubia and Fig.
Page 9 - That sounds well ! Yes, and has been proved to answer when physic failed and tonics had lost their charm.
Page 62 - There are two things which have to be done. The first is to skin the eel, and the second is to carefully cleanse it.