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A cheaper option, I do not advise you. But nothing will lose money. In these hammocks an ephemeral tissue, which in the advertising poster stands almost a hippopotamus, and you can take at the most inopportune moment. Element convenience and is not unimportant. Hiking conditions and so do not have the comfort that we used to have in their permanent homes. Exacerbate this situation should not think.
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It is believed that Mayan hammocks invented about 1000 years ago. The first hammocks trudged from the bark of “Humac”, hence the Indian name of a hammock. Then started to use hammocks Indians of Central and South America, who literally lived in hammocks long before their first contact with white man. In the last 60-70 years have to weave hammocks are made of strong cotton rope, and hammocks in Brazil and Ecuador began to manufacture from whole cloth.
When Columbus returned from his “New World” in Europe, he brought with him not just gold, but a few samples of Indian hammocks. Soon the idea of a hammock adopted many European sailors, especially English and French fleet, and began to use hammocks for sleeping. In the navy hammocks, made of cloth, used more than 300 years. This version beds are not occupied much space and also saved from inconvenience during pitching. Before the Navy began using hammocks, many of the sailors received serious injuries falling from their beds during the strong pitching.
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