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  • Those on a long journey carry with them a sleeping-mat and wooden pillow, cooking-pot and bag of meal, pipe and tobacco-pouch, a knife, bow, and arrows, and two small sticks, of from two to three feet in length, for making fire, when obliged to sleep away from human habitations.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • Each man had a strong wooden “betel” box, on which he generally sat, a sleeping-mat, and a change of clothes — rowing naked, with only

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Hold your positions! 'and not a man stirred from his sleeping-mat.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • I kept my dagger beside me in the night and when I pricked the first uninvited visitor to my sleeping-mat with the needle-point, his yells caused much hilarity amongst the others.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • Each of mem slept with his bow and his sword concealed under his sleeping-mat.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • Then the boy Samuel, in wonder and fear, returned to his sleeping-mat before the great purple curtain, and lay down with the light shining upon him.

    Children of the Old Testament Anonymous

  • They took him away when they found him there; he lay hot and restless on his sleeping-mat, for he too had taken the fever.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • His dark eyes took in the brightness of sunshine and moonrays, he slept on his red sleeping-mat under the shade of gorgeous blossoms, waking to the sound of water and the scream of red and green parrakeets, and his tiny hands were raised, with coos of excitement, to catch these bright-hued creatures flitting from branch to branch above him.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • That night she and her father killed a pig, and smeared its blood over the sleeping-mat, blanket, and pillows.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • [8] Petate (Sp. - Mexican), a sleeping-mat made of woven straw.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

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