If you have a permanent camp, or if moving you have wagon-room enough,
you will find a stove to be most valuable property. If your party is
large it is almost a necessity.

For a permanent camp you can generally get something second-hand at a
stove-dealer’s or the junk-shop. For the march you will need a stove of
sheet iron. About the simplest, smallest, and cheapest thing is a
round-cornered box made of sheet iron, eighteen to twenty-four inches
long and nine to twelve inches high. It needs no bottom: the ground will
answer for that. The top, which is fixed, is a flat piece of sheet iron,
with a hole near one end large enough for a pot or pan, and a hole
(collar) for the funnel near the other end. It is well also to have a
small hole, with a slide to open and close it with, in the end of the
box near the bottom, so as to put in wood, and regulate the draught; but
you can dispense with the slide by raising the stove from the ground
when you want to admit fuel or air.