Tungo: Sleeping

Sleeping gear

While accustomed to sleeping comfortable in one’s bed or at an inn, when my bed is “beneath the sky”, I keep warm with a wool blanket or two. I carry a very old grey four-point HBC (five pounds) and/or a green hand-woven blanket (four pounds). This is rolled longways into a fat horseshoe, tied about with buckskin thongs, and placed over my right shoulder. If I expect to be traveling in damp woods, I also carry a cattail* sleeping mat (two pounds) buckled to the bottom of my knapsack’s shoulder straps. Otherwise I try to sleep in a nest of dry leaves or a ‘debris shelter’. While traveling in very cold weather I pin the grey blanket around me as a ‘matchcoat’.

I reckon that cattails were likely among the “reeds” or “rushes” often seen or referred to in the Shire's

Eastfarthing/Brandywine/Buckland/Withywindle sphere.