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:TYPES OF LIGHT TENTS 79sumes little fuel. It is fed with sticks stood on end(dn^ "cow chips" will do), and the draught isregulated by banking earth around the bottom.Such a tent is room)- and comfortable for eight menin any weather. It willshelter a dozen or more atpinch.A conical tent is best fora party traveling on theplains, where violent windstormsor cloud-bursts orblizzards may suddenly beencountered, and w^here thereis little or no timber. Acone sheds winds and rainbetter than any other shape,as it has a steep pitch andequal bracing in all directions.On the other hand, itis not fit for rough grounds;aFig- 39-—Sibley TentStoveunless the site is smooth and level the tent bottonntwill gape in some places and sag in others. A conicaltent cannot be set up properly without a fullset of pegs, and it requires many of them.Smaller and lighter conical tents are made for^various tastes ; but no tent of this shape should be ofless diameter than 13 feet with wall, or 14 feet withoutone; for the occupants are supposed to lie likespokes of a wheel, and their feet must not come toonear the center pole.The army conical wall tent is usually pitched byeight men, of whom the director is designated asNo. 8. They w^ork as followsUpon the hood lines of the tent are placed three marks;the first about 8 feet 3 inches, the second about 11 feet 3inches, the third about 14 feet 2 inches from the hcodring; the first marks the distance from the center to thewall pins, the second to the guy pins, and the distancebetween the second and third is the distance between guypins. These distances vary slightly for different tentsand should be verified by actual experiment before per-