Figure 10

Figure 10. Top, ‘Canadian Voyageurs pitching a tent in the land of the Pharaohs during the Nile Expedition’, 1884 (From Getty Images collection). A slouch hat and nine Colonial pattern helmets can be seen; note the reversed helmet on the man standing at left. At this point the helmets were puggaree free, but later images on the river, (below), show they were adopted, Voyageurs are in the prows and sterns of the boats.

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