t the fishing or
shooting around the camp proves good, or it comes on to storm, and for
maybe a week you do not move, and for a week you suffer discomforts. An
hour of work put in at the beginning would have turned it into a week of
ease.

When there is transport of even one pack-horse, one of the best helps
toward making camp quickly is a combination of panniers and bed used for
many years by E. F. Knight, the _Times_ war correspondent, who lost an
arm at Gras Pan. It consists of two leather trunks, which by day carry
your belongings slung on either side of the pack-animal, and by night act
as uprights for your bed. The bed is made of canvas stretched on two
poles which rest on the two trunks. For travelling in upper India this
arrangement is used almost universally. Mr. Knight obtained his during
the Chitral campaign, and since then has used it in every war. He had it
with Kuroki's army during this last campaign in Manchuria. {6}

A more compact form of valise and bed combined is the "carry-all," or any
of the many makes of sleeping-bags, which during the day carry the kit
and at night when spread upon the ground serve for a bed. The one once
most used by Englishmen was Lord Wolseley's "valise and sleeping-bag."
It was complicated by a number of strings, and required as much lacing as
a dozen pairs of boots. It has been greatly improved by a new
sleeping-bag with straps, and flaps that tuck in at the ends. But the
obvious disadvantage of all sleeping-bags is that in rain and mud you are
virtually lying on the hard ground, at the mercy of tarantula and fever.

The carry-all is, nevertheless, to my mind, the most nearly perfect way
in which to pack a kit. I have tried the trunk, valise, and
sleeping-bag, and vastly prefer it to them all. My carry-all differs
only from the sleeping-bag in that, instead of lining it so that it may
be used as a bed, I carry in its pocket a folding cot. By omitting the
extra lining for the bed, I save almost the weight of the cot. The
folding cot I pack is the Gold Medal Bed, made in this country, but which
you can purchase almost anywhere. I once carried one from Chicago to
Cape Town to find on arriving I could buy the bed there at exactly the
same price I had paid for it in America. I also found them in Tokio,
where imitations of them were being made by the ingenious and
disingenuous Japanese. They are light in weight, strong, and
comfortable, and are undoubtedly the bes