A.
- Abyssinian mule platforms, 345
- Accommodation of tents, to increase, 61
- Adaptation of hames to collars, 460
- Admiral Belcher’s expedient for moving vessels during calms, 175
- Adzes or axes, makeshift, 381
- African boots, 412
- Aguardiente, to make, 579
- Albatross, catching, 587
- Alligators, catching, 590
- Securing snared fish from, 591
- Aloe juice, extracting, 802
- Altitudes, ascertaining, 741
- Low, or levels, to obtain, 734
- Table of, 742
- American cordway, 324
- Indian lodges, 308
- Life raft, 167
- Portable boat, 154
- Wild fruits, 530
- Ammunition, packing, 17
- Amphibious animals, trapping, 666
- Anchors, 375
- Angle at which to pitch a tent, 56
- Animals, calls of, 679
- Infested with fly, treatment of, 804
- Purgative for, 802
- Skin of, as food, 557
- Wild, observation of the habits of, 773
- Antidotes for poison, 80
- Ants, locusts, and other insects and their larvæ as food, 562
- Anvils, 193, 197
- Aparejo, 463
- Application of wind power to horizontal wheel, 512
- Aps or chupatee, 544
- Aquatic birds, traps for, 675
- Arctic regions, hints for the, 309, 316
- Armament, hunter’s, 655
- Arobas waggon, 441
- Arrest hemorrhage, 695
- Arrow-fishing, 594
- Arrows, harpoon, 594
- Artificial horizon, 29
- Artillery, charges for, 241
- Cartridges and wads for, 243
- Dromedary or Zembourcks, 245
- Field, 448
- Repairing, 243
- Shot for, 246
- Sledges, 406
- Unspiking, 243
- Zembourcks, 245
- Artist’s materials, 22
- Ascertaining altitudes, 741
- Variations of the compass, 732
- Ash cake, 549
- Assegais, to render useless, 203
- Attachment of straps, for sledges, 399
- Australian bark canoe, 162
- Spears and spear throwing, 616
- Tent, 59
- Two-wheel drays, 454
- Axes or adzes, makeshift, 381
- Axles, to make and repair, 215
B.
- Baggage derrick, extempore, 330
- Bags, pack-saddle, 36
- Baits, fish, hints on, 605
- Baking bread, 550
- Ballast for boats, 177
- Balsas canoe, 140
- Bamboos, building with, 289
- Bananas and plantains for food, 533
- Bandages, surgical, 689
- Bark canoes, 105
- Australian, 162
- Canadian, 157
- For canoes, mode of stripping, 156
- Stripping from trees, 789
- Uses of, 789
- Base metals, to detect, 263
- Baskets, fish traps, 595, 597
- Bayonets, 11
- Beams, masts, &c. for platform boats, 114
- Bear trap, 663
- Bechuana hut, 280
- Beds, camp, 44
- Beehive hut, Kafir, 279
- Bees’ Nests, taking, 580
- 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
- Birdlime, 679
- Birds, aquatic, traps for, 675
- Calls for, 679
- Traps for, 673
- Preserving, 574
- Sea, cooking, 584
- Snaring, 673
- Bite of tsetse fly, 653
- Bits, 34
- Blackcock trap, 672
- Bladders and paunches for holding water, 499
- And water-skins, repairing of, 783
- Use of, 783
- Blanket used for extemporising a tent, 59
- Blindfolding pack animals, 465
- Blockhouse, 296
- Blocks and pulleys, 383
- Board house, 278
- 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
- Rice, 565
- Water without pots, 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
- And shoes, 6, 412
- Clamps for, 420
- India rubber, to mend, 429
- In tropical countries, hints on, 429
- Laces, 7
- Lasts for, 416
- Making, 417
- Sledge dogs’, 403
- Snow shoe, 410
- Stitching, 421
- Thread for, 420
- Wading among rocks, 429
- 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
- Pellet, Indian, 624
- Strings, tightening, 622
- Box markings, 700
- Boxes as floats, 97
- Copper, 8
- For Cape waggon travelling, 9
- For rafts, 144
- Braces, 5
- Brands of camels, 481
- Branding cattle, 478
- Branch, peg, and log ladders, 349
- Brass guns and their charges, 241
- For barter with natives, 210
- Softening and hardening, 210
- Bread baking, 550
- Breakers, rules for passing through, 176
- Break for wheels, 443
- Brick tea, 571
- Bridge shears, to construct, 336
- Bridges, boat, 350
- Cable and twig, 335
- Chain, 331
- Deodar beam, 341
- Fly, 331
- Gabion, 327
- Ice, 343
- Indian rope, 341
- Natural, 346
- One tree, 325
- Rafter, plank, and slab, 342
- Swamp, 326
- Tartar, 328
- Bridles, 34
- Broken masts, 182
- Spars, scarfing, or fishing of, 181
- Bruised gun barrels, to repair, 226
- Buckets, bamboo, 358
- Canvas, 67
- Gutta percha, 73
- Leather, 72
- Palm, 523
- Buck-shot moulds, 19, 222
- Buik-waggon, 437
- Building, bamboo for, 289
- Boats, clinker, 128
- Boats, hints on, 128
- Boats of metal, 121
- Boats of wood, 123
- Boats, things to be thought of when, 105
- Fires, 539, 540
- Jetty, 329
- Mission Churches, plans for, 301
- Of the Portuguese in Africa, 305
- Rafts, principles of, 147
- Walls, 291
- Wheels, 366, 371
- Bullet moulds, 9, 220, 230
- Bullets, cleft, 229
- 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
- Calls, bird and animal, 679
- Calming troubled water by means of oil, 176
- Camels, 475
- Brands, 481
- Embarking, 487
- Feeding, 486
- Harnessing, 476
- Hints on, 483, 486
- Journal or diary, 489
- Loads and distances, for, 485
- On shipboard, fastening, 489
- Water in stomach, 487
- Wounds on backs of, 800
- Camp beds, 44
- Filters, 501
- Furniture, 389
- Medicine-making, hints on, 802
- Of ox waggons, to defend, 297
- Canadian bark canoe, 157
- Candles, 86
- Guttering, to prevent, 556
- Making, 87
- Malay, 89
- Packing, 88
- Screens for, 88
- Cannon, cartridges for, 243
- Charges, &c. 241
- Mounting, 237, 240
- Repairing, 243
- Shot for, 220, 246
- Unspiking, 243
- Wads, 243
- (See also Artillery.)
- 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
- Boat, portable inflated, 48, 100
- Buckets, 67
- Canoe for one man, inflated, 50
- Or skin boat, 100
- Cape waggon, 433
- Cap squares of a gun, makeshift for, 239
- Caps for the head, 5
- Percussion, and their substitutes, 240
- Priming, to make, 244
- 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
- Casting horses, 800
- Oxen, 801
- Ropes for horses, 801
- Casks, water, to embark, 379
- Catamaran float, 165
- Catching albatrosses, 587
- Alligators, 590
- Cattle, 654
- Crayfish, lobsters, &c., 604
- Crows, 680
- Deer with thorn wreaths, 624
- Ducks, &c. 675
- Fish, 585, 587
- Musk rats, 667
- Ostriches, emus, &c., 668
- Porpoises, 612
- Sea fish, 585
- Turkeys, 670
- Catgut and parchment, 782
- Cattle boat, 99
- Brands, making, 480
- Catching, 654
- Drinking troughs for, 493
- Hobbling, 469
- Marking, 478
- Watering, 493
- 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
- 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
- Shells, use of, 526
- Use of, 524
- 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
- Dew, 518, 523
- Mineralogical and geological specimens, 771
- Natural history specimens, 763
- Water from rain-falls, 504
- Colonists and natives, to obtain information from, 758
- Common dog sledge, 404
- Companions and servants, conduct to, 702
- Compass, pocket, 28
- Points of, 633
- Variation of, to ascertain, 732
- Marking distances with, 30
- 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
- Sea birds, 584
- Stove, Norwegian, 558
- Copper and iron, to tin, 210
- Boats, 50, 51
- Boats, materials used in, 54
- Boxes, 8
- Or iron skiff, 118
- Skiff, 118
- Tinning, 210
- Water flasks, 495
- Cooper’s work, 377
- Coracle, 100
- Cordway, American, 324
- Corrugated iron boat, 51
- 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
- Sheet metal, snips for, 213
- Timber, season for, 270
- Up large game, 575
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
- Churches, 301
- Farm-house and village, 295, 298
- Deodar beam bridge, 341
- Derrick, baggage, 330
- 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
- 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
- For camels, 485
- Measurement, 30, 726
- Travelled by wheeled carriage, measuring, 726
- Distil aguardiente, to, 579
- Ditty bag, 68
- Dividing and packing venison, 661
- Dogs, boots for, 403
- Free from the attacks of the tsetse fly, 652
- Packs for, 405
- Securing to sledges, 400
- Sledge and harness for, 396, 404
- Sledge, food for, 400
- Doors and gates, to make and hang, 289
- Double boat of copper, 51
- Block, 386
- Canvas boat, inflated, 49
- Metal boats, 107
- Sextant, 26
- Dough nuts, 550
- Drags for wheels, 443
- Drawing sledges, 395
- Drays, Australian, 454
- Dressing for wounds, 73
- Dried flesh, 558
- Drills and saws, 376
- Drinking troughs for cattle, 493
- Driving a coracle, 100
- Droge, the, 167, 168
- Dromedary brands, 481
- Points in the, 483
- (Zemboureks), artillery, 245
- 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