The Annex.
[Illustration: Fig. 46. Cutting out the Annex.]
[Illustration: Fig. 47. The Annex Applied.]
We were surprised to find out how small the tent was after it was set up.
We could see at once that when we had put in all the stores and provisions
we would need, there would not be room enough for six boys and a man to
stretch themselves out comfortably in it. Bill had evidently made a
miscalculation, but he suggested that we remedy the error by building an
annex for our kitchen utensils and supplies.
This gave us a two-room tent, which we found to be quite an advantage.
Twelve more yards of drill were bought and cut into two strips, each 17
feet 2 inches long. The breadths were then sewed together, and the ends
turned up and hemmed to make a piece 17 feet long and 4 feet 9 inches
wide. Tape loops were then sewed on as before, and ropes were fastened on
at the top of the side walls, that is, 3 feet 6 inches from the ends of
the strips. We thought it would be better to have a slanting ridge on the
annex, so we cut out a wedge-shaped piece from the center of the two
strips, as shown by dotted lines B B in Fig. 46. This wedge-shaped piece
measured 2 feet at the outer end of the annex, and tapered down to a point
at the inner end.
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