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CAMPS AND CAMP LIFE 127
and put on the top of the shelters to keep the
sun out ;
soldiers in hundreds and thousands,
some lying lazily on the ground, others cleaning
their rifles, cooking, chopping wood, or occupied
with the hundred-and-one little tasks of their
daily camp routine ; orderlies and messengers on
foot and on horseback ;
long lines of pack-horses
coming in from the commissariat ;
laughter and
chatting and singing ;
companies parading for
drill ;
and sharp words of command, but never a
bugle nor a drum to be heard. At night, when
the lanterns were lighted in tent and bivouac, and
all the tiny camp-fires were going, the whole plain
resembled a large city, and the distant din of
voices, the neighing of horses, and the occasional
sound of a concertina or a samisen helped to
make the illusion more vivid.
The shelters are made of square pieces of
waterproof canvas laced together in different
ways, each soldier carrying a square together
with a section of a thin, strong tent pole. The
same method of carrying tents is used in many
European armies ;
only in their case the pieces of
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