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CHAPTER IIITENTS FOR FIXED CAMPSWhen camp Is made in a certain locality with nointention of moving it until the party is ready togo home, it usually Is called a *' permanent camp."This is a misuse of terms; for a camp of any kind*'is only a temporary biding place. The camp andnot the soil," says Gibbon, " Is the native countryof the genuine Tartar." When speaking of a campfixed in one place for a considerable time, I shallcall it a fixed camp or stationary camp. It differsfrom a shifting camp, so far as outfitting is concerned,In permitting the use of heavy and bulk>equipment and more of the comforts of home.Wall Tents.— For fixed camps, situated wherethere are wagon roads or other adequate ways oftransportation, the best cloth shelter Is a wall tent,rectangular or square, of strong and rather heavymaterial.Fig. I.— Wall Tent, with FlyIt Is a trade custom to list tents according to anarbitrary scale of ground dimensions, In even feet,although the cloth seldom works out exactly so ; forground dimensions art* governed by the number of