If the country is flat, you must cut four forked sticks, and erect a villa after this fashion in skeleton-work, which you then cover with grass.
You will then strew the floor with grass or, small boughs, in lieu of a feather bed, and you will tie up a bundle of the same material into a sheaf, which will form a capital pillow.

If grass and sticks are at hand, this will be completed thus far in an hour.
Then comes the operation of fire-making, which is by no means easy; and as warmth comes next to food, and a blaze both scares wild animals and looks cheerful, I advise some attention to be paid to the fire.

There must be a good collection of old fallen logs, if possible, together with some green wood to prevent too rapid a consumption of fuel.

But the fire is not yet made.
First tear off a bit of your shirt and rub it with moistened gunpowder.
Wind this in a thick roll round your ramrod just below the point of the screw, with the rough torn edge uppermost.

Into these numerous folds sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder; then put a cap on the point of the screw, and a slight tap with your hunting-knife explodes it and ignites the linen.
Now, fire in its birth requires nursing like a young baby, or it will leave you in the lurch.