It is not my intention to enter into the details of what are required, in the shape of equipment in India, to place the young officer in a position to proceed to his ultimate destination, as these are points on which he will soon be fully informed on his arrival in India, but I would wish particularly to warn him against burdening himself with a single superfluity, and recommend his limiting his baggage to what may be called “light marching order;” he will find advantage in this hereafter; above all, let him avoid, as he would his worst enemy, any extravagance which, exceeding his means, shall involve him in debt, even to the smallest amount; debt, in any shape, is one of the rocks on which many a man has been shipwrecked at the very outset of his Indian career….
— “Hints to Cadets” by Lt. T. Postans of the Bombay Army (1842, Wm. H. Allen and Co.)
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They got it back then. Couldn’t agree more…
Those are the first two designs that I have seen that I would actually like to build.
Did you include them in your book?
There will be a folding bookcase like that. And two campaign chests, plus dimensions for a variety of them, such as the Anglo-Indian one shown there.
Chris, I’d be willing to bet that someone like you would be able to put that traveling bookcase to good use.
Yep! You can stuff an iPad and two weeks of clothes in it. 😉