A tent. There are tents? [Not that it matters that much, since they're in a cabin now and not in a tent. He doesn't want to be in a tent anyway. They seem like floppy, rainy things.]

And I, I thank you. This, it does not make a great deal of sense to me. It is most confusing. Yes. Against the wall, it is very fine.

[When the pile was made he started to see the point of how it worked. It wasn't like he was sleeping on the kindling for a bonfire, it was actually stacked in a way that made sense. Nodding, Ambassador started spreading the tarp over top of it.] I would not have thought of this, and my back would have hurt every day we were here. So I must thank you. At the least, my back will not hurt so much, no? And you, you are sleeping on one of these?