The command was well supplied with food and ammunition, but its facilities for land transportation were inadequate; its equipment, in the shape of clothing and Tentage, was not adapted to a tropical climate in the rainy season; it carried no reserve medical stores, and it had no small boats suitable for use in disembarkation or in landing supplies on an unsheltered coast.
"Campaigning in Cuba"
George Kennan
There was a lack of blankets, pillows, and Tentage, and the operating facilities, perhaps, were not as ample as they might have been; but in view of the extraordinary difficulties with which the surgeons had had to contend, the results were highly creditable to them, even if not wholly satisfactory to an observer.
"Campaigning in Cuba"
George Kennan
The party left everything behind for the journey of the next spring, taking only Tentage, food, needful tools, and instruments.
"True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World"
Adolphus W. Greely