G.
- Gaberdine, [4]
- Gabion bridge, [327]
- Galls in horses, [799]
- Game, dead, protecting, [660]
- Pegs, &c., [392]
- Gates, latches for, [390]
- Making and hanging, [289]
- Gathering food, hints on, [577]
- Mushrooms, hints on, [582]
- General hints on boat building, [128]
- Geographical information, to obtain from natives and colonists, [758]
- Geological and mineralogical specimens, collecting, [771]
- Geology for travellers, [250]
- Gipsy tent, [57]
- Glanders, cautions regarding, [806]
- Glass bottles, lightning averted by, [289]
- Fracturing, so as to obtain a sharp edge, [625]
- Gloves, [5] Gold, identifying, [257]
- Grapnel or creeper, to trip, [603]
- Grass filters, [504]
- Grenades and rocket arrows, [246]
- Grindstones, mounting, [387]
- Gripes or colic, remedy for, [802]
- Ground lines, and their management, [593]
- For tent pitching, [66]
- Guano stages at Ichaboe, [337]
- Gum-tree bark canoe, [162]
- Gun barrels, to cut, [198]
- Gunner’s capstan, [374]
- Gunpowder, to make, [247]
- Plan for securing, [37]
- Gunyah, the, [278]
- Gut, silkworm, [599]
- Guttapercha buckets, [73]
- Guttering in candles, to prevent, [536] H. Habits of wild animals, observation of, [773]
- Halters, [37]
- Hames, adaptation to collars, [460]
- Makeshift, [458]
- Hammocks, [45]
- Handbarrow, makeshift, [389]
- Hand mill, [544]
- Hanging doors and gates, [289]
- Handles of stock whips and lead pencils, [225]
- Hardening brass, [210]
- Bullets, [228]
- Hard rove rope, treatment of, [793]
- Wood, [358]
- Harness and pack animals, [457]
- Harnessing and yoking draught oxen, [452], [454], [455]
- Harpooning hippopotami, [613]
- Seals under ice, [603]
- Harpoons, [609]
- Arrow, [594]
- Hartebeeste hut, [282]
- Hats and caps, [5]
- Haunts of fish, hints on, [605]
- Hay and straw ropes, spinning, [792]
- Headstalls, [37]
- Heat-conducting bodies, [809], [810]
- Heavy spars, to carry, roll, or parbuckle, [352]
- Height of a tree, or other object whose base is accessible, to find without instruments, [321]
- Hemorrhage, to arrest, [695]
- Hide boat, quagga, [102]
- Ropes, [784]
- Hints on boat building, [128]
- Boots in tropical countries, [429]
- Buying second-hand guns, [11]
- Camels, [486]
- Camp medicine making, [802]
- Fire-arms, [236]
- Fish baits, [605]
- Fishing tackle, [588]
- Food gathering, [577]
- Fording rivers, [344]
- Gold searching, [251]
- Gathering mushrooms, [582]
- Harness and harnessing, [461]
- Haunts of fish, [605]
- Horse and mule purchase, [806]
- Hygeens, and camels, [483]
- Management of the forge, [192]
- Matters connected with waggons, [446]
- Mule equipment, [468]
- Mule purchasing, [466]
- Raft building, [147]
- Sentries, [301]
- Servants and slaves, [704]
- Serving rations, [559]
- Shoeing horses, [798]
- Sledges, [401]
- Transportation of flesh, [576]
- Trapping, [666]
- Travel, [701]
- Travelling in the arctic regions, [309], [316]
- Hippopotami, use of, [616]
- Harpooning, [613]
- Hitches and knots, [794]
- On measuring lines, [365]
- Hobbles, [38]
- Hobbling cattle, [469]
- Hogs’ cravats, [391]
- Hold-all for tools, [43]
- Holder for torches, [555]
- Honey, finding and taking, [580]
- Hook trap, [664]
- Hooks, fish, [209], [586], [587]
- Hoop-iron, uses for, [194]
- Horizon, artificial, [29]
- Artificial, and sextant, use of, [743]
- Horizontal wheel, application of wind power to, [512]
- Horn lantern, [86]
- Horns for holding water, [498]
- Use of, [784]
- Horse and mule waggons, [442]
- Horses, buying, [577]
- Casting ropes for, [801]
- Collars, [457]
- Embarking, [473]
- Fastening, [472]
- Galls, [799]
- Glanders, [806]
- Leading and driving, [473]
- Medicines and farrier’s stores, [84]
- Poultice, [799]
- Purchase of, hints on, [806]
- Securing, [800]
- Shoeing, hints on, [798]
- Sledges, [405]
- Sore backs, [799]
- Teeth, and other irregularities, [805]
- Throwing, [800]
- Hour glass, [740]
- Houses, African, Portuguese, [305]
- Howitzers, and their charges, [242]
- Hunter’s armament, [655]
- Hunting elephants, [634]
- Hurdle or wattle work, [382]
- Husks of cocoa nut, use of, [526]
- Huts, Bechuana, [280]
- Hutting in the arctic regions, [309], [316]
- Hygeens and camels, hints on, [483]
I.
- Ice boards, [403]
- Ichaboe guano stages and flying railway, [338]
- Identification of gold, [257]
- Precious stones, [254]
- Implements, fishing, [604]
- Impurities from water, removing, [505]
- Incisions in iron with cold chisels, to make, [194]
- Increase accommodation of tents, [61]
- Increase size of bell-tent, [61]
- Indian (American) lodges, [308]
- Indiarubber boots, to mend, [429]
- Inflated boats, to make safe, [117]
- Information from natives and colonists, to obtain, [758]
- Insects and their larvæ as food, [562], [581]
- Inspanning, [452]
- Instruments for mapping, [31]
- Intestines for holding water, [500]
- Introduction, [1]
- Iron articles, selection of, [446]
- Irregularities of teeth in draught animals, [805]
- Irritated surfaces, remedy for, [80]
J.
- Jackets, [4]
- Making, [698]
- Jetty, to build an extempore, [329]
- Joining odd sections of metal boats, [125]
- Sheet metal, [211]
- Journal in duplicate, [21]
- Juices, obnoxious, removing from fruits, &c., [520] K. Kaffir beehive hut, [279]
- Killing sheep, [560]
- Kites as auxiliaries to swimming, [183]
- Knives, [40]
Knives, makeshift, [193]
- Sheath and bayonets, [202]
- Knots and hitches, [794]
L.
- Ladders, [353]
- Ladles, spoons, and their substitutes, [227]
- Lamps, bull’s-eye, [86]
- Lancers’ tent, [58]
- Landing derrick, [349]
- Lanterns, bull’s-eye, [86]
- Horn, [86]
- Larch trees, [358]
- Large game, cutting up, [575]
- Larvæ of insects as food, [562]
- Lasts for boots, [416]
- Latches, [390]
- Lathes, makeshift, [386]
- Laudanum, preparation of, [803]
- Lead ore smelting, [228]
- Leading and driving horses, [472]
- Leaf torch, [89]
- Leakage in water-skins, repairing of, [499]
- Leaky boats, to stop, [91]
- Leaping-poles, [347]
- Leather buckets, [72]
- Leeches, mule, to destroy, [805]
- Lee shore, establishing communication by kites with a, [185]
- Levelling, [340]
- Staff, extemporised sight vane for, [737]
- Levels or low altitudes, to obtain, [734]
- Water, substitute for, [738]
- Library, the traveller’s, [29], [31]
- Life-belts, [94]
- Liggers and trimmers, [591]
- Lighting a fire, [539], [540]
- Lightning, averted by glass bottle, [289]
- Line slings and lob sticks, [334]
- Lines, fishing, [597]
- Lining for old huts, tents as, [61]
- Links and chains, [462]
- Lion hunting, [642]
- Lizards, snakes, &c. as food, [560]
- Loads for camels, [485]
- Cape waggon, [453]
- Lobsters, crayfish, &c. to catch, [604]
- Lob sticks and line slings, [334]
- Locality for water, [491]
- Lodges of the American Indian, [308]
- Logging-up timber, [269]
- Logier hill house, [287]
- Log, boring a, [376]
- Long canoes, [163]
- Lotus roots and seeds as food, [564]
- Low altitude or levels, to obtain, [734]
M.
- Maintain a fire, [542]
- Maize, preserving, [569]
- Malay torch, [89]
- Mallets for driving tent pegs, [64]
- Management of forges, hints on the, [192]
- Mange, preventive and remedy, [803]
- Mangrove wood floats, [163]
- Manna and its preparation, [529]
- Maple sugar, [528]
- Mapping, [30]
- Instruments for, [31]
- On Mercator’s projection, [754]
- Routes, instruments for, [24]
- Tables, [755]
- Marking boxes, [700]
- Marrow bones, [557]
- Martin trap, [662]
- Massoolah boats, [164]
- Metal boats, mixture for, [113]
- Masts, broken, [182]
- Matches from blue lights, [556]
- Materials for copper boats, [54]
- Mats, rush, [283]
- Measurements, extemporary, [363]
- Measuring lines, [292], [365]
- Meat, boiling, [553]
- Medical stores, [73]
- Makeshift, [92]
- Medicines, [73]
- Mercator’s projection, mapping on, [754]
- Mescal, to make, [579]
- Metal (base), to detect, [263]
- Metal boat, building a, [121]
- Double, [107]
- Joining odd sections of, [125]
- Life, [124]
- Mixture for painting, [113]
- Platform, [107], [110]
- Steel, [166]
- Branch and log ladders, [349]
- Bladders, water skins, &c., [783]
- Bruised gun-barrels, [226]
- Cannon, [243]
- Guns, [199]
- Leakage in water skins, [499]
- Muskets, [208]
- Perch-bolts, [197]
- Poles, [218]
- Vessels, temporary, [168]
- Wheels, [218]
- Wheel-tires, [195]
- Metal pannikin, making, [211]
- Metals, tests for, [260]
- Rifle shooting, [203]
- Milk-bush floats, [163]
- Mills, makeshift, [544]
- Mineralogical and geological specimens collecting, [771]
- Minerals, chemical tests for, [260]
- Saddles, packing of, [37]
- Miner’s pump, to make, [266]
- Mining and miner’s tools, [252]
- Mission churches, plans for building, [301]
- Mixture for painting metal boats, [113]
- Mocassins, [424]
- Models of boats, [105], [119]
- Mosquito nets, [67]
- Moulds, buck shot, [19]
- Mounting cannon, [237], [240]
- Grindstones, [387]
- Moving vessels during calms, Admiral Belcher’s expedient for, [175]
- Mules, bell, [466]
- Mushrooms, hints on gathering, [582]
- Muskets, flint, [10]
- Musk rats, catching, [667]
- Namaqua Hottentot hut, [283]
- Nardoo for meal, [545]
- Natives and colonists, to obtain information from, [758]
- Settlers”, [391]
- Natives, plough, [390]
- Handkerchiefs, [5]
- Natural bridges, [346]
- Of the compass, [633]
- Naturalists’ outfit, [761]
- Nave auger, to work, [376]
- And their antidotes, [80]
- Necessaries for the table, [70]
- Necessary carpenter’s tools, [41]
- Repairing, [218]
- Nets, fishing, [600], [603]
- Netting, [797]
- Uses of, [613]
- Nipple of a gun, to extract, [204]
- North American wild fruits, [530]
- Lamp, [84]
- Norwegian cooking stove, [558]
- Nuts and bolts, taps and dies for, [198]
- Oars for travellers, [114]
- Observation of the habits of wild animals, [773]
- Observatory, portable, [29]
- Obtain geographical information from natives and colonists, [758]
- Odds and ends for sledging, [402]
- Offal of animals, [557]
- Oil for gun locks, [236]
- Iron rusting, [207]
- Ointment for wounds, [802]
- Of tsetse fly bite, [654]
- Oneida trap, [665]
- One man, inflated canvas canoe for, [50]
- One-tree bridge, [325]
- Ore, iron, smelting, [258]
- Ostriches, catching, [668]
- Otter, making and working, [593]
- Of routes, [751]
- Outfit for artists, [22]
- Outriggers for canoes, [99]
- Outspanning, [453]
- Ovens, makeshift, [550]
- Oxen, casting, [801]
- Miners’, to make, [266]
- Pack animals, [463], [474]
- Pack ropes, [465]
- Packing ammunition, [17]
- Packs and pack animals, [474]
- Paddling, [134]
- Pail-yoke, [391]
- Pails, palm, [523]
- Painting and sketching under difficulties of travel, [716]
- Palanquins, stretchers, &c., [682]
- Palm, bucket of, [523]
- Pannikin, to make, [211]
- Papuan tree hut, [307]
- Parbuckling, carrying, and rolling heavy spars, [352]
- Parchment and catgut, [782]
- Passing through breakers, rules for, [176]
- Patent filter, [506]
- Patrol tent, [55]
- Paunches and bladders for holding water, [499]
- Pearls, river, to find, [256]
- Peat hut, [309]
- Pegs and rests for guns, game, &c. 392
- Pellet bow, [624]
- Pemmican, [573]
- Pencils and stock whip handles, [225]
- Penetration of rifle balls, [17]
- Pen trap, [671]
- Perch bolts, to repair, [197]
- Percussion caps and their substitutes, [240]
- Perpendicular, on a given point, to erect, [320]
- Pipes, buckets, &c. of bamboo, [358]
- Pistols, [18]
- Pitching tents, [55]
- Pitfall, [647]
- Plane table and its use, [735]
- Plank fall trap, [664]
- Plans for building mission churches, [301]
- Plantains, cider, [533]
- Plantains for food, [533]
- Plants holding water, [504], [522]
- Plates, lead, to make, [225]
- Platform boats, connecting beams, masts, &c. for, [114]
- Platforms, Abyssinian mule, [345]
- Platinizing iron, &c., [206]
- Ploughs, native, [390]
- Pocket compass, [28]
- Points in the dromedary, [483]
- Poisoned arrows, [619], [622]
- Poisons, [680]
- Pole chains, [335]
- Poles, leaping, [347]
- Porcupine trap, [657]
- Porpoises, catching, [612]
- Portable boat, American, [154]
- Portuguese buildings in Africa, [305]
- Potato whiskey, [534]
- Pots and pans, [71]
- Poultice, horse, [799]
- Powder-flasks, [19]
- Precious stones, to identify, [254]
- Preparation of American wild fruits, [530]
- Preserving birds, [574]
- Preserved vegetables, [582]
- Preventing a candle from guttering, [556]
- Preventive and remedy for mange, [803]
- Priming caps, to make, [244]
- Principles of raft building, [147]
- Proas, [135]
- Procuring aloe juice, [802]
- Producing fire, [535]
- Projection, Mercator’s, mapping on, [754]
- Prong and crook house, to build, [284]
- Protecting dead game, [660]
- Pulleys or blocks, [383]
- Pumping ships, [176]
- Pumps, extemporised, [516]
- Punk, [537]
- Purchase of horses and mules, hints on, [806]
- Purgative for animals, [802]
- Purifying water, [507]
- Quadrant, [744]
- Quagga hide boat, [102]
- Qualities of gold, [810]
- Quantity and nature of stores required by 21 men for 18 months, [46]
- Quarrying stone, [263]
- Queen Charlotte’s Island canoe, [158]
- Queen, the, [544]
- Quicksands, extricating waggons from, [145]
- Radiating heat power of various bodies, [810]
- Rafter, plank and slab bridges, [342]
- Rafts, American life, [167]
- Rail splitting, [272]
- Railway lamp, [87]
- Rainfalls, collecting water from, [504]
- Raising a roof, [287]
- Rakes, forks, &c. from sticks, [391]
- Rations for one man for six days, [566]
- Ravines or rivers, to find the width of without instruments, [318]
- Reducing dislocated shoulder, [694]
- Reed boat, [97]
- Reefing of sails from the sides, [174]
- Reflecting lamp, [87]
- Reindeer sledge, [406]
- Refractory mule, to secure, [459]
- Region of the tsetse fly, [652]
- Remedy for colic and gripes, [802]
- Removing boulders, [265]
- Render boats safe, [92]
- Repairing axles, [217]
- Reptiles as food, [560], [564]
- Rests for guns, &c., [392]
- Revolvers, [18]
- Rewarding natives, [493]
- Rice, boiling, [565]
- Riding and pack oxen, [654]
- Rifle balls, penetration of, [17]
- Rifling arrows, [624]
- Rigs of vessels, [172]
- Rio Negro huts, [307]
- Rivers, ferrying wheels over, [144]
- Rivets, [213]
- Roads, to make swamp, [317]
- Roadways, cane and twig, [335]
- Roasting meat, [551]
- Rocket arrows and grenades, [246]
- Rod iron, weight of, [809]
- Rolling, carrying, and parbuckling heavy spars, [352]
- Roof, to raise a, [287]
- Roots for food, [533]
- Yielding sap as a substitute for water, [516], [518], [521]
- Rope bridge, Indian, [341]
- Rucksacks, [787]
- Rudders, temporary, [178]
- Rue ruddy, [395]
- Rules for passing through breakers, [176]
- Rush mats, [283]
- Russian cargo boat, [102]
- Routes, projection of, [751]
- N.
- Water, skin, [780]
- O.
- P.
- Making, [532]
- Q.
- R.
- S. Sabots and socks, [428]
- Sacks, ruck, [787]
- Saddles, [32]
- Sago cakes, [556]
- Of plants as substitute for water, [491]
- Sailing boats, rules for, [177]
- Sails and their substitutes, [172]
- Samovar, [90]
- Sandals, [426]
- Sand, &c. from gun locks, to remove, [69]
- Ladders, Indian, [348]
- Sap from timber, to extract, [355]
- Savages’ huts, [278]
- Saw-pit, substitute for, [274]
- Saws and drills, [376]
- Scale of rations for rough travelling, [559]
- Scaling cliffs, &c. kites for, [185]
- Scarfing of broken spars, [181]
- Scissors, [41]
- Scrap-iron, uses for, [194]
- Screens, Chuppar, [294]
- Sculling, [132]
- Sea-birds, cooking, [584]
- Sea-fish, catching, [585]
- Season for cutting timber, [270]
- Seals, harpooning under ice, [603]
- Seasoning wood, [355]
- Second-hand guns, hints on buying, [11]
- Sections, odd, of metal boats, to join, [125]
- Slaves, hints on, [704]
- Securing cattle, [469]
- Seeds and roots of lotus as food, [564]
- Sedge grass raft, [150]
- Selection of bullet moulds, [9]
- Sentries, hints for, [301]
- Servants and companions, conduct to, [702]
- Serving rations, hints on, [559]
- Settlers’ plough, [391]
- Setting traps, [665]
- Sextant and artificial horizon, use of, [743]
- Of cocoa-nut, use of, [526]
- Sheds, reed, [293]
- Sheath knives or bayonets, [202]
- Shears to construct bridge, [336]
- Sheep killing, [560]
- Making, [696]
- Sheet-copper boat, [50], [51]
- Shells for rifles, extempore, [226]
- Shelves, makeshift, [293]
- Ship-board, fastening camels on, [489]
- Snow, [408]
- Ships, rafts from, [92]
- Tortoises with arrows, [624]
- Shirts, [4]
- Shoe canoe, [161]
- Fire as a, [539]
- Shoeing horses, hints on, [798]
- Shoemaker’s wax, [415]
- Shoes and boots, [6], [412]
- Shooting bustards, [670]
- Shot belts, [19]
- Signal clock, [385]
- Signalling by means of kites, [184]
- Signs of the weather, [185]
- Sight vane for levelling staff, extemporised, [737]
- Sighting guns, [200]
- Sights, gun, [201]
- Silkworm gut, [599]
- Sinking wells, [513]
- Skates and their substitutes, [411]
- Sketching and painting, under difficulties of travel, [716]
- Skidor, Norwegian, [410]
- Dimensions, [394]
- Dog, [396], [404]
- Drawing, [395]
- Equipment of, [399]
- Esquimaux, [398]
- Field artillery, [406]
- Harness for dog, [396]
- Hints on, [401]
- Horse, [405]
- Ice board, [403]
- Log for, [399]
- Reindeer, [406]
- Runners of, to smooth, [398]
- Speed of, to check, [400]
- Stopping, [400]
- Summer, [408]
- Tobogun, [403]
- Travail, [404]
- Whip, [397]
- Skiff of copper or iron, [118]
- Skins as food, [557]
- Slab plank and rafter bridges, [342]
- Slaughtering sheep, [560]
- Slaves and servants, hints on, [704]
- Lead ore, [228]
- Sledges, attachment of straps for, [399]
- Sleeping bags, [786]
- Slings for guns, [39]
- Slow match and tinder, [537]
- Bites, &c., [82]
- Slugs, making, [223]
- Smelting iron ore, [258]
- Smith’s tools for travelling, [208]
- Smoking out wild bees, [537]
- Smoothing roughened runners of sledges, [398]
- Snakes as food, [560]
- And stockings, [5]
- Snares, [673]
- Snatch block, [385]
- Snips for cutting sheet metal, [213]
- Feet, [430]
- Snow-blindness, and its remedy, [79]
- Soap making, [785]
- Socks and sabots, [428]
- Scarfing or fishing of broken, [181]
- Softening brass, [210]
- Solids, Weight of, [809]
- Sore backs, [799]
- Spanish pack saddle, [463]
- Spawn, fish, preserving, [583]
- Spars, carrying, rolling, or parbuckling, [352]
- Spearing fish, [607], [608]
- Spears, Australian, [616]
- Specimens, botanical, collecting, [764]
- Speed of a sledge, to check, [400]
- Spinning hay and straw ropes, [792]
- Spirit from milk, [534]
- Splicing, [797]
- Splints, surgical, [691]
- Splitting logs, [543]
- Spoons, ladles, and their substitutes, [227]
- Spooring, [628]
- Sporting rifles, [231]
- Spring guns, [656]
- Spurs, [34]
- Square, to make a, [320]
- Squirrel trap, [663]
- Stables, temporary, [294]
- Stages at Ichaboe, guano, [337]
- Stands for instruments, [738]
- Steaming log, [357]
- Steel boat, portable, [166]
- Steering wheel, to make, [372]
- Stern-posts, temporary, [181]
- Sticks, forked, uses of, [388]
- Still, makeshift, [494]
- Stirrups, [34], [380]
- Farriers’ and horse medicines, [84]
- Stitching boots, [421]
- Stockings and socks, [5]
- Stock-whip handles and lead pencils, [225]
- Stone hut, [280]
- Stopping leaky boats, [91]
- Various bodies, [812]
- Stores, &c. required by 21 men for an 18 months’ expedition, [46]
- Stoves, Norwegian, [558]
- Strains, remedy for, [79]
- From trees, [789]
- Straps for sledges, attachment of, [399]
- Straw and hay ropes, spinning, [792]
- Tents, Esquimaux, [315]
- Strength of ropes, to estimate, [793]
- Stretchers, palanquins, &c., [682]
- Splints, [691]
- “Strike-a-light” or “Chuckmuck,” [537]
- Stripping bark for canoes, mode of, [156]
- Sugar cane or oil mill, [546]
- Summer sledges, [408]
- Supple jack, [392]
- Surgical bandages, [689]
- Tsetse fly bite, [653]
- Swamp roads, to make, [317]
- Swimming to a lee shore, kite as an assistance in, [183]
- Swing and ladder, miners’, [347]
- Swinging derrick, [349]
- Swivels, wooden and other, [361]
- Symptoms of fever, [77]