B.
- Baggage derrick, extempore, [330]
- Bags, pack-saddle, [36]
- Sleeping, [786]
- Baits, fish, hints on, [605]
- For traps, [667]
- Baking bread, [550]
- Cakes, [549]
- Ballast for boats, [177]
- Balsas canoe, [140]
- Bamboos, building with, [289]
- Various uses for, [358]
- Bananas and plantains for food, [533]
- Bandages, surgical, [689]
- Bark canoes, [105]
- Base metals, to detect, [263]
- Baskets, fish traps, [595], [597]
- Waterproof, [500]
- Bayonets, [11]
- Sheath knives as, [202]
- Beams, masts, &c. for platform boats, [114]
- Bear trap, [663]
- Bechuana hut, [280]
- Beds, camp, [44]
- Beehive hut, Kafir, [279]
- Bees’ Nests, taking, [580]
- Wild, to smoke out, [537]
- Bell mules, [466]
- Bellows, [69]
- And forge, extempore, [213]
- Bell-tent made to hold many people, [61]
- Bent wood, [380]
- Biltong, [575]
- Birch bark canoes, [157]
- For canoes, [156]
- Birdlime, [679]
- Birds, aquatic, traps for, [675]
- Bite of tsetse fly, [653]
- Bits, [34]
- Blackcock trap, [672]
- Bladders and paunches for holding water, [499]
- Blanket used for extemporising a tent, [59]
- Blindfolding pack animals, [465]
- Blockhouse, [296]
- Blocks and pulleys, [383]
- Board house, [278]
- Wigwam, [274]
- Boards, ice, [403]
- Boats, American portable, [154]
- Ballast for, [177]
- Bridges of, [350]
- Building, [121], [125], [128]
- Canvas or skin, [48], [100]
- Cape waggon, [129], [131]
- Catamaran, [165]
- Clinker, [125], [128]
- Collapsible, [155]
- Connecting beams, masts, &c. for platform, [114]
- Copper, [50], [118]
- Copper, materials used in, [54]
- Copper platform, [110]
- Corrugated iron, [51]
- Esquimaux, [103]
- Fitted with inflated tubes, [170]
- Indian cattle, [99]
- Inflated canvas, [48]
- Inflated, to make safe, [117]
- Iron, [51], [118], [123]
- Leaky, [91]
- Massoolah, [164]
- Metal life, [124]
- Metal platform, [107], [110]
- Metal, to connect odd sections of, [125]
- Mixture for painting metal, [113]
- Models of, [105], [119]
- Norwegian, [165]
- Paddling, [134]
- Portable canvas, [49]
- Portable steel, [166]
- Proas, [135]
- Quagga hide, [102]
- Reed, [97]
- Rules for sailing, [177]
- Russian cargo, [102]
- Sculling, [132]
- Skin, [100]
- Things to be thought of when designing, [105]
- Torres Straits, [162]
- Wattled, [125]
- Whale, [610]
- Without nails, [165]
- Wooden platform, materials for, [114]
- Boers’ method of loading guns quickly, [228]
- Boiling meat, [553]
- Bolts and nuts, dies and taps for, [198]
- Bones, horns, tendons, fish skin, &c. use of, [784]
- Books for travellers, [29], [31]
- Boomerang, [617]
- Boots, African, [412]
- Boring heavy logs, [376]
- Botanical specimens, collecting, [764]
- Packing and preserving, [771]
- Boulders, to remove, [265]
- Buoys, life, [95]
- Bowls, wooden, [393]
- Bows, cross, Chinese, [623]
- Box markings, [700]
- Boxes as floats, [97]
- Braces, [5]
- Brands of camels, [481]
- Cattle, making, [480]
- Branding cattle, [478]
- Branch, peg, and log ladders, [349]
- Brass guns and their charges, [241]
- Bread baking, [550]
- Breakers, rules for passing through, [176]
- Break for wheels, [443]
- Brick tea, [571]
- Bridge shears, to construct, [336]
- Bridges, boat, [350]
- Bridles, [34]
- Broken masts, [182]
- Spars, scarfing, or fishing of, [181]
- Bruised gun barrels, to repair, [226]
- Buckets, bamboo, [358]
- Buck-shot moulds, [19], [222]
- Buik-waggon, [437]
- Building, bamboo for, [289]
- Bullet moulds, [9], [220], [230]
- Bullets, cleft, [229]
- Hardening, [228]
- Bullock trunks, [8]
- Bull’s-eye lantern, [86]
- Burning charcoal, [266]
- Bush knife, [11]
- Bushman’s hut, [278]
- Bustard shooting, [670]
- Butter, preserving, [583]
- Buying horses, [577]
- Second-hand guns, hints on, [11]
C.
- Cable and twig bridge, [335]
- Cakes, baking, [549]
- Calabashes, float, [96]
- For holding water, [498]
- Calls, bird and animal, [679]
- Calming troubled water by means of oil, [176]
- Camels, [475]
- Camp beds, [44]
- Canadian bark canoe, [157]
- Candles, [86]
- Cannon, cartridges for, [243]
- Canoes, Australian bark, [162]
- Balsas, [140]
- Bark, [105], [157], [160], [162]
- Birch for, [156]
- Canadian bark, [157]
- Carriage for, [159]
- Cedar bark, [160]
- Dug-out, [104], [163]
- Fejee, [139]
- Fuegian, [161]
- Inflated canvas for one man, [50]
- Long, [163]
- Mode of stripping bark for, [156]
- Outriggers for, [99]
- Queen Charlotte’s Island, [158]
- Shoe, [161]
- Water transport, [496]
- Canteens, [70]
- Canvas boat, inflated, [49]
- Cape waggon, [433]
- Cap squares of a gun, makeshift for, [239]
- Caps for the head, [5]
- Capstan, gunner’s, [374]
- Cargo boat, Russian, [102]
- Carnivora, hunting of, [646]
- Carpenter’s tools, [41]
- Carriages, canoe, [159]
- Wheeled measuring distances travelled by, [726]
- Carrying, rolling, and parbuckling heavy spars, [352]
- Carrying water, [495]
- Cartridges and wads for cannon, [243]
- Case hardening, [205]
- Cases for saddles, [34]
- Tin, utilisation of, [212]
- Casting horses, [800]
- Casks, water, to embark, [379]
- Catamaran float, [165]
- Catching albatrosses, [587]
- Catgut and parchment, [782]
- Cattle boat, [99]
- Cautions regarding glanders, [806]
- Cedar bark canoe, [160]
- Cereals as food, [569]
- Chain and rope ladders, [348]
- Chalk lines, [292]
- Charcoal burning, [266]
- Charges, &c. for brass guns, [241]
- Chemical tests, for minerals and metals, [260]
- Chests as rafts, Cape waggon, [140]
- Chinese cross-bow, [623]
- Slab and trestle bridge, [343]
- Chisels, cold, [204]
- Making incisions in iron with, [194]
- “Chucknuck,” or “strike-a-light,” 537
- Chupatee or aps, [544]
- Chupper screens, [294]
- Churches, fortifying, [301]
- Mission, plans for building, [301]
- Cider, plantain, [533]
- Clamps for boot making, [420]
- Cleaning guns, [237]
- Clearing fine sand from gun-locks, [69]
- Nut, [505]
- Cleft bullets, [229]
- Climb palms, to, [523]
- Clinker boat, [125], [128]
- Clinometer, makeshift, [738]
- Clip for holding posts, &c., [273]
- Clock, water, [741]
- Cloths, saddle, [33]
- Coats, [5], [6]
- Cocoa nut palm, uses for, [360]
- Cold chisel, making, [204]
- Making incisions in iron with, [194]
- Colic or gripes, remedy for, [802]
- Collapsible boat, [155]
- Collars, horse, [457]
- Collecting botanical specimens, [764]
- Colonists and natives, to obtain information from, [758]
- Common dog sledge, [404]
- Companions and servants, conduct to, [702]
- Compass, pocket, [28]
- Conduct to companions and servants, [702]
- Connecting beams, masts, &c. for platform boats, [114]
- Contusions, remedy for, [79]
- Convenient tool hold-all, [43]
- Cooking pots, [71]
- Copper and iron, to tin, [210]
- Cooper’s work, [377]
- Coracle, [100]
- Cordway, American, [324]
- Corrugated iron boat, [51]
- Houses, [305]
- Cost and materials of metal platform boat, [110]
- Cotton torch, [89]
- Covers for lamps, [87]
- Cravats, hog’s, [391]
- Crayfish, lobsters, &c. to catch, [604]
- Creeper or grapnel, to trip, [603]
- Crimea, tent used in, [62]
- Crook and prong house, to build, [284]
- Cross-bow, Chinese, [623]
- Cross-tree saddles, [465]
- Crows, catching, [680]
- Cup lamp, [85]
- Cupping, [695]
- Cutting gun barrels, [198]
D.
- D’Abri, Tente, [57]
- Damaras hut, [282]
- Damper, [549]
- Damp places, procuring water from, [492]
- Dams, weirs and spears, [596]
- Dead game, protecting, [660]
- Deep-water glass, [187]
- Deer catching with thorn wreaths, [624]
- Defensible camp with ox-waggons, [297]
- Deodar beam bridge, [341]
- Derrick, baggage, [330]
- Landing, [349]
- Deris, to make, [342]
- Designing boats, things to be thought of when, [105]
- Destroy mule leeches, to, [805]
- Detection of base metal, [263]
- Dew, collecting, [518], [523]
- Diarrhœa and its remedy, [79]
- Diary, &c. in duplicate, [21]
- Or journal, camel, [489]
- Dies and taps for bolts and nuts, [198]
- Dimensions of sledges, [394]
- Disabled artillery, management of, [448]
- Dishes and plates, to make, [213]
- Dislocated shoulder, reducing, [694]
- Distances, estimation of, [739]
- Distil aguardiente, to, [579]
- Water, to, [494]
- Ditty bag, [68]
- Dividing and packing venison, [661]
- Dogs, boots for, [403]
- Doors and gates, to make and hang, [289]
- Double boat of copper, [51]
- Dough nuts, [550]
- Drags for wheels, [443]
- Drawing sledges, [395]
- Drays, Australian, [454]
- Dressing for wounds, [73]
- Skins, [779]
- Dried flesh, [558]
- Drills and saws, [376]
- Drinking troughs for cattle, [493]
- Driving a coracle, [100]
- And leading horses, [473]
- Droge, the, [167], [168]
- Dromedary brands, [481]
- Drowned, treatment of the apparently, [188]
- Drugging fish, [606]
- Dubbin, to make, [429]
- Duck for ground sheet, &c., [6]
- Ducks, &c., catching, [675]
- Dug-out canoes, [104], [163]
- Duplicates of correspondence, &c., [21]
class="center">E.
- Economy in food, [560]
- Edible frog, [564]
- Eggs, ostrich, [565]
- Elephant hunting, [634]
- Elg-Led, [658]
- Elk trap, [658]
- Embarking camels, [487]
- Emus, ostriches, &c., catching, [668]
- England, outfit to take from, [4]
- Enticing deer, [660]
- Equipment, mule, hints on, [468]
- Erecting a perpendicular on a given point, [320]
- Escape, fire, [353]
- Pole, Indian, [347]
- Esquimaux boat, [103]
- Establishing communication with a lee shore by means of a kite, [185]
- Estimate distance, to, [739]
- Expedients for moving vessels during calms, Admiral Belcher’s, [175]
- Expedition by twenty-one men for eighteen months, stores, &c.,
- required for, [46]
- Extracting gun nipple, [204]
- Sap from timber, [355]
- Extricating waggons from quicksands, &c., [145]
F.
- Fall-traps, [662]
- Plank, [664]
- Farmer’s stores and horse medicines, [84]
- Farmhouse, defensible, [295], [298]
- And village, to fortify, [298]
- Fastening camels on shipboard, [489]
- Fat, to treat, [784]
- Feathers, ostrich, packing, [622]
- Feeding of camels, [486]
- Feet, sore, [430]
- Felling timber, [268]
- Fences, [273], [291]
- Ferries and fly bridges, [331]
- Ferrying wheels over rivers, [144]
- Fever and its remedy, [77]
- Field artillery, [448]
- Figure of four traps, [663]
- Fijee canoes, [139]
- Filing up and trimming iron after forging, [194]
- Filters, camp, [501]
- Finding height of a tree or other object, whose base is accessible, without instruments, [321]
- Firearms, hints on, [236]
- Fire baskets, [555]
- Fish baits, hints on, [605]
- Fishing broken spars, [181]
- Fitting-up of tents, [61]
- Flasks, water, copper, [495]
- Flat-bottomed steel boat, [166]
- Flesh, dried, [558]
- Flint muskets, [10]
- Float for one man, skin, [154]
- Waggons, to, [144]
- Floats, calabash, [96]; boxes, [96]
- Flour, preserving from weevils, [556]
- From wrecks, [557]
- Fly bridge and ferries, [331]
- Flying railway at Ichaboe, [338]
- Food, economy in, [560]
- Foot coverings, makeshift, [425]
- Footways, tree, [330]
- Fording rivers, hints on, [344]
- Forge and bellows, extempore, [213]
- Forecastle lamp, [87]
- Hints on the management of the, [192]
- Forked sticks, uses of, [388]
- Form of tent peg, [64]
- Fortifying churches, [301]
- Farm and village, [298]
- Foundations for houses, [304]
- Fox trap, [664]
- Fracturing glasses, as to obtain a sharp edge, [625]
- Fritters, [536]
- Frogs, edible, [564]
- Fruits, obnoxious juices, removing of, [520]
- Fuel for fires, [539], [541], [542], [543], [556]
- Fuegean pole house, [309]
- Canoe, [161]
- Furnace, makeshift, [553]
- Furniture, camp, [389]