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The preparations for the night were very simple. Adam, whose previous experience in camping and rough life had made him think, before leaving the steamer, of a good many little things that might be useful on a journey such as the one proposed, had brought with him a long, thin rope, something like a clothes-line.
"There's nothin' like havin' plenty of line along," he said, as he fastened one end of this to a low branch of a tree. "It always comes in useful. I'm goin' to hang the tarpaulin on this, and make a tent of it."