difficulties described by Jerome about camping out in three men in a boat
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In Chapter Two, the men discuss the difficulties of camping out in a rain storm.
"Camping out in rainy weather is not pleasant." (Chapter Two)
We then learn about the damage rain causes;
"You are wet through, and there is a good two inches of water in the boat, and all the things are damp."
"It (the tent) is soaked and heavy, and it flops about, and tumbles down
on you, and clings round your head and makes you mad."
"It is hopeless attempting to make a wood fire, so you light the methylated spirit stove, and crowd round that.
Rainwater is the chief article of diet at supper. The bread is two-thirds rainwater, the beefsteak-pie is exceedingly rich in it, and the jam, and the butter, and the salt, and the coffee have all combined with it to make soup.
After supper, you find your tobacco is damp, and you cannot smoke. Luckily you have a bottle of the stuff that cheers and inebriates, if taken in proper quantity, and this restores to you sufficient interest in life to induce you to go to bed."
"In the morning you are all three speechless, owing to having caught severe colds in the night; you also feel very quarrelsome, and you swear at each other in hoarse whispers during the whole of breakfast time."
It is in Chapter Two, the men decide that they will NOT camp out on rainy evening and will stay at an inn. Monsoons are never mentioned in the tex