Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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The traveller sleeping in a room without glazed windows^
in a tent, or on the floor, will find the bed which I will at-
tempt to describe a great treasure. For the plan of this
bed I was many years ago indebted to my friend Mr. God-
frey Levinge, and have ever since by its use been rendered
independent of all the insect world. The gnats, flies, beetles,
etc., never agreeable even if harmless, are constantly at-
tracted by the light of the candles or the warmth of the mat-
tress ; and this simple contrivance I have found the only
plan for preventing their intrusion. Thus ensuring an un-
disturbed night, I have cared little for their attacks by day.
The whole apparatus may be compressed into a hat-case. A
pair of calico sheets (No. 1.), six feet long, sewed together
at the bottom and on both sides, are continued with muslin

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of the same form and size sewed to them at their open end
(No. 2.), and this muslin is drawn tightly together at the
end with a tape ; within this knot are three or four loose
tapes about eighteen inches long, with nooses at their ends,
through which, from within, a cane is threaded so as to form
a circle, extending the muslin as a canopy, which in this form
is suspended.

These canes must be in three pieces, three feet long, each
fitting into the other with a socket or ferrule. The entrance
to the bed is by a neck (No. 3.), from the calico, with a string
to draw it tightly together when you are within : it is desir-
able" that the traveller should enter this bed as he would a

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