INDEX.
Accumulators.
Advantages of Travel.
Agates for striking sparks.
Agreement with Servants.
Alarm gun.
Alloy for bullets.
Alkail.
Almanack, (see "Diagram").
Alpenstock.
Alphabet, signal.
Alpine tent.
Amadou.
Ammunition (See GUN FITTINGS and AMMUNITION).
Anastatic process.
Anchors.
Andersson, Mr.
Angareb (bedstead).
Angles, to measure; by means of chords.
Animal heat.
Anthills of white ants, as ovens; yellow ants, as signs of direction.
Arctic see "Snow," "Esquimaux," and "Climbing and Mountaineering.".
Arms, weapons.
Arrows; set by a springe; to poison; to shoot fish.
Artificial horizon.
Ashes, for soap; for salt; for saltpetre and touchpaper; bivouac in; in flooring; dressing skins.
Ass; kicking, to check; braying.
Atkinson, Mr.
Austin, Mr.
Autographic ink.
Awnings, to boat; to litter; to tents.
Axe, for marking trees; for ice; to re-temper.
Axletree, to mend; to prepare wood for.
Backs, sore.
Bags for sleeping in; saddle-bags; bags carried over saddle; on packsaddle; to tie the mouth of.
Baines, Mr.
Baker, Sir S.
Baking Ball (bullet); poisoned (see "Lead").
Ballantyne, Mr.
Bamboo rafts; to dig with; to cut meat; to strike sparks; to boil water in; to hitch together.
Barclay, Captain, of Ury.
Bark, to strip; for boats; for water vessels; for string and cord; for cloth.
Barrels, as water vessels; in digging wells; to make filters; as floats (see also "Gourd-floats,").
Barth, Dr.
Basket-work boats; bucket; to protect water-bags.
Bath, vapour; bath-glove.
Battues, marking beaters at.
Beach, bivouac on (see "Dateram,").
Beacons, fire and smoke.
Beads, for presents and payments; as means of counting.
Beale, Lieutenant.
Bearings by Compass, Sun, etc.--Pocket compass; bearings by sun and stars; other signs of direction; to follow a track at night.
Bedding--General remarks; vital heat; mattresses and their substitutes; preparing the ground for bed; coverlets; pillows.
Bedstead.
Bees, to find hive.
Beke, Dr.
Belcher, Admiral Sir E.
Bellows.
Bells for cattle; to strings (thieves).
Belt, life; for trousers; bundle tied to.
Bengal fire.
Birds, flight of, shows water; dead game; direction of unseen coast; Food of birds wholesome to man; rank birds, to prepare, for eating; watchfulness of; (see "Feathers," "Quills," Shooting and Game).
Birdlime.
Biscuit, meat.
Bivouac--General remarks on shelter; various methods of bivouacking; bivouac in special localities; in hostile country; in unhealthy countries; flies at night.
Blacksmith's work (see Metals).
Black paint; lampblack.
Bladder for carrying water (see "Floats,"; Membrane).
Blakiston, Captain, R. A.
Blanket stocking.
Blaze (marked trees); of fire in early morning.
Bleeding, haemorrhage; blood-letting.
Bligh, Captain.
Blisters.
Blood, in making floors; as food; as paint; as ink.
Blue fire.
Boats (see Rafts and Boats). Boat fire-place; routes, to mark; shipping great weights; moving them on land; shooting from; fishing fron.
Bogs, to cross.
Bois de Vache (cattle-dung).
Bolas.
Bones, as fuel; food; to extract fat from; broken bones.
Books, for MS.; to bind; on conclusion of journey.
Boots.
Borrow, Mr.
Bougeau, Mr.
Bows set by a spring (see Arrows).
Box of card, to pack flat.
Braces, for trousers; for saddlery; to weave.
Brands, for trees; for cattle.
Break to carriage wheels.
Breakwater of floating spars.
Bridges of felled trees; flying bridges.
Bridles.
Broken limbs.
Brush, to make; paint-brush.
Buccaneer.
Bucket; pole and bucket at wells.
Buckle.
Bullet; poisoned (see "Lead").
Buoys.
Burning down trees; hollows in wood.
Burning-glasses.
Bush-costume.
Bush-laws.
Bushing a tent.
Butcher Butcher's knife.
Butter; relieves thirst.
Caches and Depots--Caches; hiding jewels; depositing letters; reconnoitring by help of porters.
Caesar.
Calabash floats; water vessels.
Calculations, to procure; blank forms.
Calf stuffed with hay (Tulchan).
Campbell, Mr. J., of Islay.
Camel.
Camp (see Bivouac, Hut, Tent)m to fortify; camp fire; baking beneath.
Candles and Lamps--Candles; materials for candles; candlesticks; lamps To obtain a blaze in early morning.
Canoe, of a log; of three planks; of reeds and fibre; of bark; of the Rob Roy pattern; to carry on horseback.
Canvas, life-belt; water vessels; boat; painted, for sleeping rug.
Cap (hat); (percussion); to obtain fire from.
Carbon paper for tracing.
Carcass (carrion), to find; newly dead animal, warmth of.
Card-boxes, to pack flat.
Carpenters' tools (see "Burning down Trees,".
Carrara, shipping heavy blocks.
Carriages--Wagons; drays; tarring wheels; breaks and drags; sledges; North American travel (trail); palanquins.
Carrion.
Carross (fur) (see).
Cartel (bedstead).
Carter, Alpine Outfitter.
Case-hardening.
Cask (see "Barrel").
Castings, of lead; cast-steel.
Cats cannot endure high altitudes.
Catgut; for nooses.
Cattle--Weights carried by cattle; theory of loads and distances; horses; mules; asses; oxen; cows; camels; dogs; goats and sheep; management of horses and other cattle; intelligence of, in finding water; smell road; keep guard; will efface cache marks; to water cattle; to swim with; to use as messengers (see 'Horse' in "Index").
Cattle-dung, as fuel; as tinder; in plastering huts; in making floors; in dressing skins.
Catlin, Mr.
Caulking boats; leaky water vessels.
Caviare.
Cerate ointment.
Chaff, to cut, with a sickle.
Chairs.
Chalk to mark hats of beaters; whitwash.
Charcoal, to make; for gun-powder; in balls (gulo); fire-place for; used in filters; pencils made of; powdered and buried as a mark Animal charcoal.
Cheese, to make.
Chill, radiation (see "Vital Heat,"; "Wet Clothes,"' and "Comfort in Travel").
Chisel, cold for metals or stone.
Chollet's dried vegetables.
Chords, table of; table for triangulation by.
Christison, Dr., tables on diet.
Chronometer (see "Watch-pocket,").
Clay for pottery.
Cleanliness (see "Washing Clothes,"; "Washing Oneself,"; "Warmth of Dirt,").
Cliffs, to descend with ropes.
Climbing and Mountaineering--Climbing; descending cliffs with ropes; leaping poles and ropes; the art of climbing difficult places; snow mountains; ropes; ice-axe; alpenstock; boots, spectacles, and masks,--Climbing with a horse; descending with wagons; rarefied air, effect of; mountains, coup e'air on; magnetism of.
Clothing--Materials; warmth of different kinds; waterproofing and making incombustible, sewing materials; articles of dress (caps, coats, socks, etc.); wet clothes, to dry; to keep dry; washing clothes; soap; washing flannels; washing oneself; warmth of dirt; bath glove and brush; Double clothing for sleeping in.
Clove-hitch.
Coat; to carry.
Cold (see "Chill").
Collar, horse; swimming-collar.
Colomb and Bolton's signals.
Comfort in travel; dry clothes.
Compass.
Conclusion of the Journey--Completing collections; alphabetical lists; observations re-calculated; lithographical map.
Concrete for floors.
Condiments.
Condors, to trap.
Convergence of tracks aflight, to water; to dead game; of bees to hive.
Cooking; utensils; fire-places; ovens; cook to be quick in making the fire.
Cooper, Mr. W. M.
Copper, to cover with tin; copper boats.
Cormorants.
Corracles.
Cord, String, Thread--Suibstitutes; sewing; needles, to make (see "Ropes").
Corks and stoppers.
Cot.
Cotton, for clothing; for tinder.
Counting, as done by savages.
Coverlets.
Cows.
Crawfurd, Mr. J.
Cresswell, Lieut., R.N.
Crocodiles, to shoot.
Cross, as a mark for roads.
Crowbar.
Crows, to destroy.
Crupper.
Culprits, to secure; punishment.
Cumming, Mr. Gordon.
Cups; to make tea in.
Curing meat; hides.
D's for saddle.
Dahoman night-watch.
Dalyell, Sir R.
Dana, Mr.
Dangers of travel, I.
Darwin, Mr.
Dateram (for tent and picket ropes).
Davenport brothers.
Death of one of the party.
Decoy-ducks.
Defence.
Depot (see Caches and Depots).
Dew, to collect for drinking.
Diagram of altitudes and bearings.
Dial, sun.
Diarrhoea.
Diet, theory of.
Digging.
Dirt, warmth of.
Discipline.
Diseases.
Distances, to measure; travelled over by day; loads and distances, theory of.
Distilling.
Division of game; by drawing lots.
Doebereiner and Oelsner.
Dogs, in harness; in fishng; in finding water; as messengers; to keep at bay; eating snow; sheep-dogs.
Donkey (see "Ass").
Douglas, Sir H.
Down of plants as tinder.
Drags and breaks.
Drain to tents.
Dray (wagon).
Dress (see Clothing); dressing-gown.
Drinking, when riding; from muddy puddles.
Drowning.
Drugs.
Druitt, Mr.
Dry, to keep, importance of; to dry clothes; to keep clothes dry; small packets, when swimming; tinder in wet weather; buried letters; dry fuel, to find; to dry meat,; fish; eggs.
Duck shooting.
Dung, cattle (see "Cattle-dung").
Ear-trumpet.
Ecclesiasticus.
Echo, as a guide in steering.
Edge of tools.
Edgington, tents.
Edwards, Mr.
Eggs, to dry; white of, as gum.
Elephants.
Emetics.
Encampments (see Bivouac, Hut, Tent).
Enquiries, I (see Preparatory Enquiries).
Esquimaux, lamp for cooking; spectacles for snow; faw meat for scurvy; raw meat and fur bag (see "Snow").
Estimates (see Outfit).
Everest, Colonel Sir G.
Expedition (see Organizing an Expedition).
Extract, of meat; of tea and coffee.
Eyre, General.
Faggot hung to gree, as a mark.
Falconer, Mr.
Fat (see "Grease").
Feast-days.
Feathers, for bed; for mark by road-side; on string, to scare game.
Felt, to make.
Ferns as food.
Ferry, African, of calabashes; of reeds; flying bridges.
Fever, I.
Filters.
Fire--General remarks; to obtain fire from the sun (burning-glasses, reflectors); by conversion of motion into heat (flint and steel, guns, lucifers, fire-sticks); by chemical means (spontaneous combustion); tinder; tinder-boxes; fuel; small fuel for lighting the fire; to kindle a spark into a flame; camp fires Burning down trees; hollows in wood; fire-beacons; prairie on fire; first obliterate cache marks; leave an enduring mark; heating power of fuels; blacksmithery; wet clothes, to dry; tent, to warm; incombustible stuffs ( see "Brands").
Fishing--Fishing-tackle; to recover a lost line; otters; boat-fishing; to see things under water; nets; spearing fish; intoxicating fish; otters, cormorants, and dogs; Fish roe as food; fish, dried and pounded; fish skin (see "Skin"); fish-hook for springes.
Fitzroy, Admiral.
Flags, for signals.
Flannel; to wash.
Flash of sun from mirror.
Flashing signals.
Flashing alphabet.
Flask, battered, to mend (see).
Fleas.
Flies, near cattle-kraals.
Flints; for gun; sparks used as a signal; as a light to show the road; flint knives.
Floats; floating powers of wood.
Flogging.
Floors, to make.
Flour, nutritive value; to carry.
Flying bridges.
Food--Nutritive elements of food; food suitable for stores; condiments; butcher; store-keeping; wholesome food procurable in bush; revolting food, to save lives of starving men; cooking utensils; fire-places for cooking; ovens; bush-cookery.
Forbes, Captain, R.N.
Forbes, Professor J.
Fords and Bridges--Fords; swamps; passing things from hand to hand; plank roads; snow-drifts and weak ice; bridges; flying bridges.
Forge.
Forest as shelter; log huts; to travel in a straight line through forests.
Form, for log-book; calculations; for agreement with servants.
Fortification of camp.
Fountains.
Fuel; heating powers of various kinds.
Fulminating powder in destroying wolves; percussion caps.
Furnioture--Bed.; hammocks and cots; mosquito-nets; chairs; table--(See also).
Fusees, in making a fire.
Gall (ox-gall); girth-galls; blisters.
Game, other means of Capturing (besides shooting)--General remarks; springes; pitfalls; traps; poison; bird-line; catching with the hand; bolas; lasso; ham-stringing; hawking To hide from animals of prey; division of spoils; to float across a river; to carry Dead animals, to find; water, in paunch of.
Garibaldi.
Gauze, for mosquito-curtains; to make incombustible; stretched over mercurial horizon.
Geographical Society.
Gilby, Mr.
Gipsy tent; marks (patterans).
Girths; girth-galls.
Glass, to shape; substitute for, in mercurial horizon; to silver; substitute for glass.
Glaisher, Mr.
Glaze for pottery.
Glove (bath-glove).
Glue.
Goats.
Gold, to carry.
Gourd float; boat (makara).
Grains (for spearing fish).
Grant, Captain.
Grass shutters.
Graters.
Grease for leather; in dressing skins; for wheels; to procure from bones; for relieving thirst; oiling the person; butter; olive oil, to purify.
Gregory, Mr.
Gul (ball of charcoal).
Gum.
Gun-fittings and Ammunition--Powder-flask; percussion-caps; wadding; flints; gunpowder; bullets; shot and slug.
Guns and Rifles--Breech-loading; best size of gun; sights, ramrod, etc.; rust; olive-oil, to purify; injuries to gun, to repair; guns to hang up; to carry on a journey; on horse-back; to dispose of at night; to clean--To procure fire; to set an alarm-gun; to support tenting.
Gunpowder, to make; to carry; mark on stone left by flash; in lighting a fire; in making touch-paper; substitute for salt; fulminating powder to kill beasts; powder-flask; battered, to mend (see).
Gut; catgut.
Gutta percha (see "Macintosh").
Guy-rope in tenting.
Haemorrhage.
Haggis.
Hall, Dr. Marshall.
Hammering, sound of.
Hammock.
Hamstringing.
Handing things across a swamp.
Handbook for Field Service.
Handkerchief, to sling a jar; to tie the wrists.
Hands of prisoner, to secure.
Harness--Saddles for riding; bags; sore backs; pack-saddles; pack-bags; art of packing; girths, stirrups, bridles, etc.; tethers, hobbles and knee-halters; horse-collar, traces and trek-tows.
Hats Hawker, Colonel.
Hawks for hawking; to trap.
Head, Sir F.
Hearne, Mr.
Heat, vital; heating power of different fuels (see Fire).
Heather in bivouac.
Heavy bodies, to move.
Heber, Bishop.
Heliostat.
Helm.
Hides (see "Skins;" also Leather).
Hiding-places (see Caches and Depots).
Hills (see Climbing, etc.).
Hitch, Malay (see Knots).
Hobbies.
Holes, to dig.
Honey, to find; honey-bird.
Hooker, Dr.
Hooks, for walls of hut; fish-hooks; for springes.
Horizon, artificial.
Horn; substitute for glass; powder-horn.
Horse; to check descent of wagon; tied to sleeping master; to horn of dead game; picketted to a dateram; running by side of; climbing with; descending with; in deep snow; swimming with; carrying a gun on; loading on; tying a prisooner on; raising water from wells; horseflesh; hair for string; collar.
Hostilities--To fortify a camp; weapons to resist an attack; natives forbidden to throng the camp; keeping watch; prairie set on fire; tricks upon robbers; passing through a hostile country; securing prisoners; proceedings in case of death.
Hours' journey.
Huber, M.
Hue and Gabet, MM. Hunger.
Huts--Log huts; underground huts; snow-houses; wattle and daub; palisades; straw or reed walls; bark; mats; Malay hitch; tarpaulin; whitewash; roofs, floors, windows.
Ice, weak, to cross; axe; burning lens, made of.
Incombustible stuffs.
Index, to make.
India-rubber (see "MacIntosh").
Information, preparatory, to obtain; through native women.
Ink; autographic; sympathetic.
Insects as food; mosquitos; flies; fleas; lice.
Instruments for surveying; verification of; porters for; surgical instruments.
Interpreters.
Intesting to carry water; as swimming-belt; to make catgut from; membrane thread.
Iron, ore to reduce; forge; boats.
Isinglass.
Ivory, to sling on pack-saddle.
Jar, to sling.
Jackson, Colonel.
Javelins, set over beast paths.
Jerked meat.
Jewels, to secrete.
Jourt, Kirghis.
Kabobs.
Kane, Dr.
Kegs for pack-saddles.
Keels.
Kerkari.
Kettle; used for distilling.
Kite, as a signal.
Knapsack sleeping-bag; to carry heavy weights knapsack fashion.
Knee-halter.
Knife.
Knots--See also "Knots in Alpine Ropes,"; tying to tent-pole; tent-pole, to mend; knotting neck of a bag; Malay hitch; matting and weaving; raft fastening; leather vessels, to mend; hide lashings; rush chairs For a place to make fast to, see "Burning down Trees,"; "Digging Holes to plant them,"; "Dateram,".
Kraals.
Ladder.
Laird, M'Gregor, Mr.
Lamp; of lead, to cast; Esquimaux; lamp-black.
Lantern.
Lappar (to scare game).
Lashings of raw hide.
Lasso.
Lathe.
Laws of the bush.
Lead; to cast.
Leaks, to caulk, in boats; in water vessels.
Leaping-ropes and poles.
Leather--To dress hides; to preserve them without dressing; greasing leather Leather clothing; tents; lashings of raw hide; leather vessels, to repair; ropes (See "Skins.").
Leggings.
Leichhardt, Dr.
Length, measurement of.
Letters, to deposit; carried by animals; of alphabet, to stamp and to brand.
Lever.
Lice.
Lime, to make; to poison fish; bird-lime.
Linen clothing.
Lines, for fishing.
Lists of stores; of instruments; alphabetical, to make.
Lithographic map, to make.
Litter for the wounded; horse-litter.
Livingstone, Dr.
Lloyd, Mr.
Loading guns.
Loads and distances, theory of.
Locusts, to cook.
Log-book; log for a boat's speed; log-hut.
Lopstick (to mark a road).
Lost road; articles in sand; fishing-line, in water; to see things lost under water.
Lots how to draw.
Lucan, Lord.
Lucifer matches; for percussion caps.
Lunars.
Luxuries of tent-life.
Lye (for soap).
Lunch, Lieutenant.
McClintock, Captain Sir L.
Macgregor, Mr.
Macintosh for under bedding; sleeping-bag; inflatable boats; water vessels; gun-cover; is spoilt by grease.
Maclear, Sir Thos.
McWilliams, Dr.
Madrina (of mules).
Magnetic bearings; magntism of rocks.
Makara (gourd-raft).
Malaria fever.
Malay hitch.
Marks for the way-side--Marks in the forest; for canoe routes; marks with stones; gipsy and other marks; paint To mark cattle (see also "Caches,").
Mask for snow mountains.
Mast, substitute for.
Match, lucifer; sulphur.
Mats; for tents (see "Reed huts,").
Mattresses; feathers for.
Meaden, Captain J.
Measurements--Distance travelled; of rate of movement; tables for ditto; natural units; measurement of anagles; chords and table of; triangulation; table for, on principle of chords; time, measurement of.
Meat biscuit.
Mechanical appliances--On land; by wetted seeds; accumulation of efforts; to raise weights out of water.
Medicine--General remarks; drugs and instruments; bush remedies; illnesses and accidents; little for the wounded (see also "Palanquin,").
Membrane, Sinew, Horn--Parchment; cat-gut; membrane thread; sinews for thread; glue;; isinglass; horn, tortoise-shell and whalebone.
Memoranda and Log-books--General remarks; pocket MS.-book; log-book; calculation books; number of observations requiring record Memoranda, to arrange.
Metals--Fuel for forge; bellows; iron and steel; case-hardening; lead, to cast; tin-plates; copper.
Mercury to harden lead with.
Metallic (prepared) paper.
Miller, Professor W. H.
Milk, to preserve; sizing paper with; used as sympathetic ink; to milk wild cows.
Milton, Lord.
Mirage.
Mirror, signalling with the sun.
Mitchell, Sir Thomas.
Moltke.
Mosquito curtains; tent of.
Moss on trees, a sign of direction.
Mould for candles.
Mountain (see Climbing and Mountaineering).
Muddy water, to filter.
Muff.
Mule.
Murray, Admiral Hon. C.
Nails, substitutes for.
Napoleon I., on bivouac.
Natives (see "Savages").
Navy (British) diet.
Needles.
Neighing.
Nets.
Nettle as food.
Niger, expedition to.
Night, to follow a track by; shooting; night-glass; compass.
Nocturnal animals.
Nooses.
Notes, to keep.
Notices to another party.
Number of a party; to camps.
Nunn, W. and Co.
Nutritive elements of food.
Oakum, for bedding.
Observations, number required; to procure calculation of.
Occultations, telescopes for.
Oil (olive) to refine (see "Grease").
Ointment.
Opera glass as a night glass; supplies a burning lens; and a lens to condense light.
Ophthalmia.
Organising an Expedition--Best size for party; servants' engagement; women.
Osborn, Captain Sherard, R.N.
Ostrich eggs, to carry.
Oswell, Mr. W. C.
Otter; fishermen's board.
Outfit--Stores for general use; for individual use; presents and articles for payment; summary; means of transport; Outfit of medicine; Alpine gear; sewing materials.
Outline forms for calculations; for the log-book.
Outrigger, to balance canoes; irons for oars.
Ovampo camp-fires.
Ovens.
Owen, Professor.
Ox; for stalking; ox-gall.
Paces, length of; to measure rate of travel by.
Pack saddles; kegs for; art of packing.
Padlock to a buckled strap.
Palliasse.
Paint; to paint cattle; paint-brush.
Palanquin (see "Litter,").
Palisades.
Palliser, Captain J.
Pan-hunting.
Paper; warmth of, in coverlet.
Parbuckling.
Parchment.
Park, Mungo.
Parkyns, Mansfield, Mr.
Party, to organise (see Organising an Expedition).
Paste.
Patch to a water-bag.
Path, lost.
Patterans (gipsy marks by road).
Paunch of dead animal, water in.
Payment, articles of.
Peal, Mr.
Peat.
Pegs, tent; to secure tent ropes; for hooks.
Pemmican.
Pencils.
Pendulum.
Pens.
Percussion caps.
Pereira, Dr.
Picketting horses in sand.
Picture writing.
Pillow.
Pitch.
Pitching a tent.
Pitfall.
Pith for tinder; for hats.
Plaids in bivouac in heather; wetted, in wind.
Planks, to sew together (see Timber); plank-roads.
Poaching devices (see Game, Other Means, etc.).
Poison for beasts; for fish; for stakes in pitfalls; for arrows; for bullets; snake bites; suspicion of poison; poisonous plants; antedotes to poison.
Pole for tent; pole and bucket; pole star.
Poncho.
Portable food.
Porters for instruments; of provisions for depots.
Pottery--Glaze for; clay; pots for stores and caches; Pot for cooking; to mend; substitute for; baking in; distilling from.
Powder (see "Gunpowder").
Prairie on fire.
Precautions against poison; malaria; unwholesome water; thieves.
Preparatory Inquiries--Qualifications for a traveller; dangers of travel; advantages; to obtain information; conditions of failure and success; the leader; servants.
Presents for savages.
Preserving food.
Pricker for gun-nipples.
Prisoners, to secure; punishment.
Pulley.
Pump.
Puna (effect of high mountain air).
Punishment.
Punt of hide; of tin.
Putrid water.
Pyrites.
Qualifications for a traveller.
Quicksilver, to harden lead.
Quills, to prepare; to carry letters; to hold minute specimens.
Quinine.
Radiation chill.
Rae, Dr.
Rafts and boats--Rafts of wood; of bamboo; Boating power of woods; burning down trees; rafts of reeds; of hide; of gourds (Makara); rude boats; sailing; log canoe; of three planks; inflatable indi-rubber; of basket; of reed of fibre; of hide; corracle and fibre; of hide; corracle and skin punt; bark boat and canoe; tin boat; boats, well built, of various materials; boating gear; boat building; boat management; awning--(See also "Boats.").
Rain, to catch.
Ramrod; to replace; probing with, for water; broken ramrod tubes.
Rank birds, to prepare for eating.
Rarefied air.
Rarey, Mr.
Rate of movement, to measure; of swimming; theory of load, and rate of travel.
Rations; of water.
Raw meat; as an antiscorbutic.
Reconnoitring arid lands.
Reeds, for rafts; mats; huts and fences; to weave; for pens; as a cache (see "Bamboo").
Reel, substitute for.
Reflectors, to light tinder; of sun for a signal.
Remedies.
Resin.
Retreat, hurried.
Richardson, Sir J.; Mr.
Rifle (see Guns and Rifles).
Right angle, to lay out.
Rings for saddle.
Rivers, to cross (see Fords and Bridges); their banks are bad roads.
Road, to mark; plank-road; lost road.
Rob Roy canoe.
Robbers (see "Thieves").
Robbiboo.
Rock, a reservoir of heat at night; magnetism of.
Rockets.
Roe of fish, as food.
Roofs.
Ropes, for descending cliffs; Alpine; of sheeting; of bark, (see Cord, String, Thread); tying a prisooner.
Rudder.
Rumford, Count.
Running, with horses.
Rushes (see "Reeds"), for chairs.
Rust.
Sack (see "Rag").
Saddle; packsaddle; saddle as pillow; saddle bags; as screens against wind.
Sails to raft; sail-tent.
Salt; given to cattle; salt-lick; salt meat; to make; to salt hides; to prepare salt meat for cooking (see "Sea-water").
Saltpetre; for gunpowder.
Sand, sleeping in; to pitch tents or picket horses in; ripple marks on, give sign of direction; used in raising a sarcophagus.
Sarcophagus, raised by sand.
Savages, management of--General remarks; bush laws; to enable a savage to keep count; drawing lots.
Saw mark.
Scarecvrow.
Scent of human touch.
Schlagintweit, H.
Science, preparatory information in.
Scorpion sting.
Scurvy.
Sea-birds, as food--Sea-water, wetting with, a remedy for thirst; a remedy for damp through rain; to distill.
Seaweed as fuel; as food; as fodder; as string; to make gum; its ashes.
Seeds wetted, expansive force of.
Sealing-wax varnish.
Seamanship.
Seasoning wood.
Sedlitz powders.
Servants.
Sewing.
Sextant, to learn the use of; glasses to re-silver.
Shavings for bedding.
Sheep; sheep dogs.
Sheets used as ropes.
Shelter from wind; from sky.
Shingle, bivouac on.
Shingles (wood tiles).
Shirt sleeves, how to tuck up; writing notes upon.
Shoes; of untanned leather, eatable; shoemakers' wax.
Shooting, hints on--How to load; shooting in water; night shooting; battues to mark the beaters; scarecrows; stalking horses; pan-hunting; the rush of an enraged animal; hiding game; tying up the shooting horse; division of game; duck shooting; crocodileshooting; tracks; carrying game; setting a gun as a spring-gun; bow and arrows; knives; night-glass.
Shot; for defence.
Shutters of grass.
Sickness (see "Medicine").
Sickle, in cutting chaff.
Sights of a gun; to replace.
Signals--Flashing with flags; reflecting the sun with a mirror; fire and smoke; other signals; letters carried by animals.
Signets.
Sinew-thread.
Size, for paper.
Skins (see Leather), eatable when untanned; salting animals in their own skins; baking them, ditto; boiling, ditto; skin rafts; boats; water bags; lashings of raw hide; to make glue.
Sky, shelter from.
Sledge.
Sleeping-bags--Knapsack bags; Arctic bags; peasants' sack (see also).
Slippers.
Slugs (shot); to cast.
Smell of road; of water; of human touch; of a negro; as an indication to stop.
Smith, Archibald, Mr.
Smith, Dr.
Smith's work.
Smoke signals; smoking skins;.
Snake bites; tree snakes in boating; poison for arrows.
Snards.
Snow, bivouac on; huts of; hearth on; filter for muddy water; snow does not satisfy thirst; blindness and spectacles; drifts to cross; ripple marks to steer by; snowy mountains, to climb.
Soap.
Socks.
Solder for tin.
Soldering (lots).
Sore backs to horses.
Sound, velocity of; signals by.
Span, measure of length; of angles.
Sparks; to strike; to make a fire from; struck as a signal; to show the road by night.
Spears, for fish; set over beast paths; trailed through grass by savages; to straighten wood for.
Specific gravities of wood.
Spectacles for snow; for seeing under water.
Speke, Captain.
Spokeshave.
Sponge, lapping up water from puddles; dew from leaves.
Spontaneous combustion.
Spoons.
Spring gun; bow.
Springes.
Squaring (right angles to lay out).
Stalking-horses and screens; stalking game.
Stars for bearings.
Starving men.
Steels for flints; steel tools; cast steel; case-hardening.
Sticks, small, for lighting fires; for fire by rubbing; for tenting purposes and substitutes; to bend or straighten.
Still (distilling).
Sting of scorpions and wasps.
Stirrups.
Stitches.
Stockings.
Stones, heated, to make water boil; as weapons of defence; as marks by roadside; to chisel marks upon.
Stool.
Stoppers.
Stores, lists of; store-keeping.
Strait-waistcoat.
Straw, to work; straw walls.
Stretchers.
String.
Strychnine.
Stuffy bedding.
Sturt, Captain.
Sulphur matches; for gun-powder.
Sunrise and sunset, diagram.
Sun signals; solar bearings.
Surveying Instruments.
Swag.
Swamps.
Swimming--Rate of swimming; learning to swim; to support those who cannot swim; landing through breakers; floats; African swimming ferry; swimming with parcels; with horses; taking a wagon across a river; water spectaacles;--Swimming with carcass of game; with sheath knife.
Swivels for tether ropes.
Sympathetic ink.
Syphons, to empty water vessels.
Tables and chairs.
Tables, of diet; of outfit; for rate of movement; of chords; for triangulation by chords.
Tallow for candles (see "Grease").
Tanks for wagons.
Tar; tarpaulin; tarring wheels.
Tawing hides.
Taylor, Mr.
Tea, theory of making.
Temper, good.
Temper of steel, to reduce.
Tents--General remarks; materials for making them; large tents; smalltents; pitching tents; tent poles; tying things to them; to warm tents; permanent camp; to search for things lost in the sand; precautions against thieves--Awning, to litter; to boat; sail tent; tent and sleeping bag; gipsy tent.
Tethers.
Thatch.
Theory of finding a lost path; of fords; of fountains; of loads and distances; of nutriment; of reconnoitring by help of depots; of tea making.
Thiercelin, M.
Thieves, hedge round tent; tricks upon (see Hostilities).
Thirst (see Water for Drinking).
Thorn-wreath in noosing animals.
Thread.
Thumbs, to tie.
Tiller.
Timber--Green wood, to season; to bend wood; carpenters' tools; sharpening tools; nails, substitutes for; lathe; charcoal, tar, and pitch; turpentine and resin--See also "Trees.").
Tiimber-hitch (knot).
Time, to measure; journey measured by.
Tin; tin boat.
Tinder; tinder-boxes.
Toggle and strop.
Toilet in travel.
Tools.
Toothache.
Tortoiseshell.
Touchwood; touch-paper.
Tourniquet.
Tow rope, to fix.
Traces (harness).
Tracing designs.
Tracks, convergence of, towards water; towards dead game; to prepare ground to receive tracks; to obliterate tracks.
Transport, means of.
Trapping.
Travail (North America).
Travel, rate of.
Trees (see Timber), as shelter; to mark; to fell with fire; to hollow with fire; as signs of neighbouring water; to climb; to steer by; to make caches in; boughs bent as accumulators; bark to strip; tree-bridges.
Trektows (traces).
Triangulation; table for, by chords.
Trenches, for cooking.
Trimmers.
Trous de loup.
Trowsers.
Tschudi, Dr.
Tulchan bishops.
Turf screen against wind.
Turnscrew in pocket-knife.
Turpentine.
Turtle, water in its pericardium.
Tylor, Mr.
Tyndall, Professor.
Uganda thorn-wreath.
Ulysses.
Underground huts.
Units of length.
Ure's Dictionary.
Vapour baths.
Varnish of sealing-wax.
Vavasour, Lady.
Vegetables, Chollet's.
Vegetation indicates water.
Verification of instruments.
Vermin on the person.
Vessels to carry water, small; large.
Vice in horses; in oxen.
Virgil.
Vital heat.
Vraic (see "Seaweed").
Vulture trapping.
Wadding.
Wafers,.
Wagons; to take across a river; axle-tree, to repair.
Waistcoat; strait-waistcoat.
Wakefulness.
Walls; of snow; of straw or reeds.
Washing clothes; oneself.
Watch, pocket for; watch-glass as a burning lens; cover as a reflector.
Watching.
Water for Drinking--General remarks; signs of the neighbourhood of water; pools of water; fountains; wells; snow-water; distilled water; occasional means of quenching thirst; to purify water that is muddy or putrid; thirst, to relieve; small water-vessels; kegs and tanks; to raise water from wells for cattle--To see things under water; shooting by waterside; floating game across water; raising heavy bodies out of water; banks of watercourse a bad pathway; bivouac by water; water causes earth over caches to sink; waterproofing.
Wattle and daub.
Wax, bee-hives, to find; waxed paper; wax candles; shoemakers' wax.
Way, to find--Recollection of a path; to walk in a straight line through forest; to find the best way down a hill-side; blind paths; lost in a fog; mirage; lost path; theory.
Weapons of defence.
Weaving mats; girths.
Webbing.
Weber, Dr.
Weights drawn and carried by cattle; theory of, and distances; heavy weights, to move; to carry.
Welding iron.
Wells; dry, used as sleeping places.
Wet clothes, to dry (see "Dry").
Whalebone.
Wheels, to tar and grease; tire made of hide.
Whistle.
Whitewash.
Whymper, Mr.
Williams, Rev. Mr.
Wind, shelter from; as a guide.
Women, strength of; kindliness of.
Wood (see Timber and Trees) shavings for bed; fire-wood Wooden cups for tea; shingles for roof.
Woolley, Mr.
Wounded persons, to carry.
Wrangel, Admiral.
Writing Materials--Paper; bookbinding; pens and paint-brushes; ink; ox-gall; wafers, paste, and gum; signets; sealing-wax varnish; small boxes for specimens; Letters, to deposit en cache; writing in the dark; on horseback.
Wyndham, Mr. F. M.
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