class="center">E.
- Economy in food, 560
- Edible frog, 564
- Eggs, ostrich, 565
- Preserving, 583
- Shells of, horns and calabashes for holding water, 498
- 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
- North Australian expedition, 35
- Sledge, 399
- Waggon, 446
- Erecting a perpendicular on a given point, 320
- Escape, fire, 353
- Esquimaux boat, 103
- Ice hut, 314
- Lamp, 86
- Sledges, 398
- Snow hut, &c., 312
- Summer tents, 315
- Establishing communication with a lee shore by means of a kite, 185
- Estimate distance, to, 739
- Strength of ropes, to, 793
- Time, 740
- Weight of rope, to, 793
- Expedients for moving vessels during calms, Admiral Belcher’s, 175
- For saving boats in rough water, 176
- For working ships’ pumps, 176
- Expedition by twenty-one men for eighteen months, stores, &c.,
- Extracting gun nipple, 204
- Extricating waggons from quicksands, &c., 145
F.
- Fall-traps, 662
- 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
- Sledges, 406
- Guns and their charges, 241
- 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
- Points of the compass, 633
- River pearls, 256
- Water, 493
- Width of rivers or ravines without instruments, 318
- Firearms, hints on, 236
- Makeshift, 245
- Testing, 13
- Fire baskets, 555
- Building, a, 539, 540
- Escapes, 353
- Fuel for, 539, 541, 542, 543
- Maintaining, 542
- Places, makeshift, 553
- Producing, 535
- Signal, as a, 539
- Fish baits, hints on, 605
- Catching, 587
- Drugging, 606
- Haunts of, hints on, 605
- Hooks, makeshift, 586, 587
- Hooks, to make, 209
- Roe, preserving, 583
- Sea, Catching, 585
- Securing from alligators, 591
- Skin, use of, 784
- Spearing, 607, 608
- Spears, weirs, and dams, 596
- Torch, 89
- Traps, baskets, 595, 597
- Fishing broken spars, 181
- Implements, 604
- Lines, to make, 597
- Nets, 600, 603
- Tackle making, and hints on, 588
- Under ice, 602
- Fitting-up of tents, 61
- Flasks, water, copper, 495
- Flat-bottomed steel boat, 166
- Flesh, dried, 558
- Preserving, 572
- Transportation of, hints on, 576
- Flint muskets, 10
- Float for one man, skin, 154
- Floats, calabash, 96; boxes, 96
- Catamaran, 165
- Bark, 99
- Inflated skin, 152
- Mangrove wood, 163
- Milk-bush, 163
- Skin, 99
- Wood, 99
- Flour, preserving from weevils, 556
- Fly bridge and ferries, 331
- Infested animals, treatment of, 804
- Tsetse, 650
- Flying railway at Ichaboe, 338
- Food, economy in, 560
- Gathering, hints on, 577
- Insects and their larvæ as, 562, 581
- Reptiles as, 560, 564
- Sledge dogs’, 400
- Various, 566
- Vegetable, 563
- 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
- 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
- Wild, 567
- Wild, of America, 530
- Fuel for fires, 539, 541, 542, 543, 556
- Fuegean pole house, 309
- Furnace, makeshift, 553
- Furniture, camp, 389
G.
- Gaberdine, 4
- Gabion bridge, 327
- Galls in horses, 799
- Game, dead, protecting, 660
- Gates, latches for, 390
- Gathering food, hints on, 577
- 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
- Qualities of, 810
- Searchers, hints to, 251
- 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
- Guano stages at Ichaboe, 337
- Gum-tree bark canoe, 162
- Gun barrels, to cut, 198
- Barrels, to repair when bruised, 226
- Cleaning, 237
- Locks, oil for, 236
- Nipple, to extract a, 204
- Repairing, 199
- Rests, 392
- Second-hand, hints on buying, 11
- Sighting, 200
- Sights, 201
- Slings, 39
- Spring, 656
- Telling time by, 238
- Gunner’s capstan, 374
- Gunpowder, to make, 247
- 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
- Hammocks, 45
- Handbarrow, makeshift, 389
- Hand mill, 544
- Hanging doors and gates, 289
- Handles of stock whips and lead pencils, 225
- Hardening brass, 210
- Hard rove rope, treatment of, 793
- Harness and pack animals, 457
- Harnessing and yoking draught oxen, 452, 454, 455
- Harpooning hippopotami, 613
- Harpoons, 609
- 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
- 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
- Hitches and knots, 794
- 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
- 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
- Board, 278
- Crook and prong, 284
- Corrugated iron for, 305
- Defensible farm, 295, 298
- Foundations for, 304
- Fuegean pole, 309
- Log, 275
- Logier hill, 287
- Reed, 293
- Thatches for, 285, 288
- Howitzers, and their charges, 242
- Hunter’s armament, 655
- Hunting elephants, 634
- Large carnivora, 646
- Lions, 642
- Hurdle or wattle work, 382
- Husks of cocoa nut, use of, 526
- Huts, Bechuana, 280
- Beehive, 279
- Bushman’s, 278
- Damaras, 282
- Fuegean, 309
- Hartbeeste, 282
- Ice, 314
- Namaqua Hottentot, 283
- Papuan tree, 307
- Peat, 309
- Savages’, 278
- Snow, 312
- Stone, 280
- Rio Negro, 307
- Tartar, 294
- Thatches for, 285, 288
- Vaal river, 281
- Hutting in the arctic regions, 309, 316
- Hygeens and camels, hints on, 483
I.
- Ice boards, 403
- Bridging a river by means of, 343
- Fishing under, 602
- Harpooning seals under, 603
- Huts, 314
- Getting under, 602
- Ichaboe guano stages and flying railway, 338
- Identification of gold, 257
- 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
- Cattle boat, 99
- Escape pole, 347
- Gharrie waggon, 441
- Lamp, 87
- Pellet bow, 624
- Rope bridge, 341
- Scaling ladders, 348
- Indiarubber boots, to mend, 429
- Inflated boats, to make safe, 117
- Canvas boat, 48, 49, 50
- Skin floats, 152
- Tubes, boat fitted with, 179
- Information from natives and colonists, to obtain, 758
- Insects and their larvæ as food, 562, 581
- Inspanning, 452
- Instruments for mapping, 31
- For mapping a route, 24
- Stands for, 738
- Intestines for holding water, 500
- Introduction, 1
- Iron articles, selection of, 446
- Boats, 51, 123
- Corrugated for houses, 305
- Making incisions with cold chisels in, 194
- Ore, to smelt, 258
- Platinizing, 206
- Rod, weight of, 809
- Rusting, to prevent, 207
- Skiff, 118
- Test for wrought or malleable, 447
- Tinning, 210
- Trap, 665
- Uses for scrap and hoop, 194
- Welding of, 192
- Irregularities of teeth in draught animals, 805
- Irritated surfaces, remedy for, 80
J.
- Jackets, 4
- Jetty, to build an extempore, 329
- Joining odd sections of metal boats, 125
- Journal in duplicate, 21
- Or diary, 20
- Or diary, camel, 489
- Juices, obnoxious, removing from fruits, &c., 520
K.
Kaffir beehive hut, 279
- Killing sheep, 560
- Kites as auxiliaries to swimming, 183
- As sails, 182
- Establishing communication with a lee shore by means of, 185
- Scaling cliffs with, 185
- Signalling by means of, 184
- Tacking by means of, 184
- Knives, 40
Knives, makeshift, 193
- Knots and hitches, 794
L.
- Ladders, 353
- Indian scaling, 348
- Makeshift, 348
- Miners’, 347
- Peg, branch, and log, 349
- Rope and chain, 348
- Ladles, spoons, and their substitutes, 227
- Lamps, bull’s-eye, 86
- Covers for, 87
- Cup, 85
- Esquimaux, 86
- Forecastle, 87
- Indian, 87
- Railway, 87
- Oils for, 85
- Portuguese, 84
- Reflecting, 87
- Wicks for, 85
- Lancers’ tent, 58
- Landing derrick, 349
- Lanterns, bull’s-eye, 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
- Pencils and stock whip handles, 225
- Plates, to make, 225
- 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
- Boat, metal, 124
- Buoys, 95
- Line, 96
- Raft, American, 167
- Liggers and trimmers, 591
- Lighting a fire, 539, 540
- Lightning, averted by glass bottle, 289
- Line slings and lob sticks, 334
- Lines, fishing, 597
- For measuring, 292
- Ground, and their management, 593
- Measuring, 365
- Lining for old huts, tents as, 61
- Links and chains, 462
- Lion hunting, 642
- Lizards, snakes, &c. as food, 560
- Loads for camels, 485
- 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
- Clip, 273
- For sledges, to make, 399
- House, to build, 275
- Peg and branch ladders, 349
- Splitting, 543
- Steaming, 357
- 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
- Disabled artillery, 448
- Ground line, 593
- 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
- Masts, broken, 182
- Matches from blue lights, 556
- Materials for copper boats, 54
- Metal platform boat, 110
- Ropes, 788
- Sketching, &c. 22
- Wooden platform boat, 114
- Mats, rush, 283
- Measurements, extemporary, 363
- Of distances, 30
- Of distances travelled by wheeled carriages, 726
- Of time, 740
- Of waterflow of a river, 757
- Rough modes of, 363
- Measuring lines, 292, 365
- Lines, hitches on, 365
- Tape, to make, 320
- Meat, boiling, 553
- Cakes, 566
- Preserving, 572
- Roasting, 551
- Transportation of, hints on, 576
- Medical stores, 73
- Medicines, 73
- Hints on making, 802
- Horse, and farrier’s stores, 84
- 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
- Metal pannikin, making, 211
- Sheet, joining, 211
- Sheet, snips for cutting, 213
- Metals, tests for, 260
- Milk-bush floats, 163
- Mills, makeshift, 544
- Mineralogical and geological specimens collecting, 771
- Minerals, chemical tests for, 260
- Miner’s pump, to make, 266
- Swing and ladder, 347
- Tools and mining, 252
- 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
- Moving vessels during calms, Admiral Belcher’s expedient for, 175
- Mules, bell, 466
- Equipment, hints on, 468
- Harness for, 459
- Leeches, to destroy, 805
- Packing purposes, 467
- Platforms, Abyssinian, 345
- Purchase of, hints on, 466, 806
- Refractory, to secure, 459
- Teeth and their irregularities, 805
- Waggons for, 442
- Mushrooms, hints on gathering, 582
- Muskets, flint, 10
- Musk rats, catching, 667
N.
- Namaqua Hottentot hut, 283
- Nardoo for meal, 545
- Natives and colonists, to obtain information from, 758
- Natives, plough, 390
- Natural bridges, 346
- History specimens, preserving and packing, 766
- History specimens, collecting, 763
- Naturalists’ outfit, 761
- Nave auger, to work, 376
- Necessaries for the table, 70
- Necessary carpenter’s tools, 41
- Nets, fishing, 600, 603
- Netting, 797
- Nipple of a gun, to extract, 204
- North American wild fruits, 530
- Australian expedition, equipment of, 35
- Norwegian cooking stove, 558
- Nuts and bolts, taps and dies for, 198
O.
- Oars for travellers, 114
- Observation of the habits of wild animals, 773
- Observatory, portable, 29
- Obtain geographical information from natives and colonists, 758
- Levels or low altitudes, to, 734
- Odds and ends for sledging, 402
- Offal of animals, 557
- Oil for gun locks, 236
- For lamps, 85
- On troubled waters, 176
- Or sugar cane mill, 546
- Palm, 525
- Ointment for wounds, 802
- Oneida trap, 665
- One man, inflated canvas canoe for, 50
- One-tree bridge, 325
- Ore, iron, smelting, 258
- Ostriches, catching, 668
- Eggs, 565
- Feathers, packing, 622
- Otter, making and working, 593
- Outfit for artists, 22
- Outriggers for canoes, 99
- Outspanning, 453
- Ovens, makeshift, 550
- Oxen, casting, 801
- Yoking and harnessing, 452, 454
P.
- Pack animals, 463, 474
- Animals, blindfolding, 465
- Oxen, 654
- Pack ropes, 465
- Saddle, 35
- Saddle bags, 36
- Saddle crooks, 388
- Saddle, Spanish, 463
- Packing ammunition, 17
- Botanical specimens, 771
- Candles, 88
- Natural history specimens, 766
- Ostrich feathers, 622
- Riding saddles, 37
- Venison, 661
- Packs and pack animals, 474
- Paddling, 134
- Pail-yoke, 391
- Pails, palm, 523
- Painting and sketching under difficulties of travel, 716
- Metal boats, mixture for, 113
- Palanquins, stretchers, &c., 682
- Palm, bucket of, 523
- Cabbage, 523
- Climbing, 523
- Cocoa nut, 360
- Leaves, use of, 527
- Oil, 525
- Range and uses of the, &c. 524, 526
- Sugar, 525
- Toddy, 524
- Vinegar from, 525
- 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
- Branch and log ladders, 349
- 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
- Selection of ground for, 66
- Pitfall, 647
- Plane table and its use, 735
- Plank fall trap, 664
- House, 278
- Rafter, and slab bridges, 342
- Screens, to make, 292
- Plans for building mission churches, 301
- Plantains, cider, 533
- Plantains for food, 533
- Plants holding water, 504, 522
- Sap as substitute for water, 491
- Yielding sap as a substitute for water, 516, 518, 521
- 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
- House, Fuegean, 309
- Indian escape, 347
- Poles, leaping, 347
- Porcupine trap, 657
- Porpoises, catching, 612
- Portable boat, American, 154
- Boat of inflated canvas, 48
- Boat, steel, 166
- Observatory, 29
- Tool chest, 44
- Portuguese buildings in Africa, 305
- Potato whiskey, 534
- Pots and pans, 71
- Raft of, 150
- Sugar making, 548
- Poultice, horse, 799
- Powder-flasks, 19
- Precious stones, to identify, 254
- Preparation of American wild fruits, 530
- Preserving birds, 574
- Botanical specimens, 771
- Fish roe, eggs and butter, 583
- Flesh, 572
- Flour from weevils, 556
- Iron from rusting, 207
- Maize, 569
- Milk, 582
- Natural history specimens, 766
- Skins, 774
- 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
- Fire, 535, 540
- Water from damp places, 492
- Water from wells, 492
- 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
Q.
- Quadrant, 744
- Quagga hide boat, 102
- Qualities of gold, 810
- Quantity and nature of stores required by 21 men for 18 months, 46
- Of ammunition to take abroad, 17
- Quarrying stone, 263
- Queen Charlotte’s Island canoe, 158
- Queen, the, 544
- Quicksands, extricating waggons from, 145
R.
- Radiating heat power of various bodies, 810
- Rafter, plank and slab bridges, 342
- Rafts, American life, 167
- Cape-waggon chests as, 140
- From wrecked ships, 92
- Inflated skin, 152
- Pot, 150
- Principles of building, 147
- Reed, 98
- Sedge grass, 150
- Trennelled, 146
- Rail splitting, 272
- Railway lamp, 87
- Rainfalls, collecting water from, 504
- Raising a roof, 287
- Water from wells, 508
- Waggons, &c. from quicksands, &c. 145
- Rakes, forks, &c. from sticks, 391
- Rations for one man for six days, 566
- Scale of, for rough travelling, 559
- Hints on serving, 559
- Ravines or rivers, to find the width of without instruments, 318
- Reducing dislocated shoulder, 694
- Reed boat, 97
- Houses, screens and sheds, 293
- Raft, 98
- 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
- Diarrhœa, 79
- Fever, 77
- Irritated surfaces, 80
- Mange, 803
- Snow blindness, 79
- Strains and contusions, 79
- Removing boulders, 265
- Obnoxious juices from fruits, &c., 520
- Sand, &c. from gun locks, 69
- Render boats safe, 92
- Repairing axles, 217
- 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
- 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
- For travellers, 231
- Rests, 203
- Selecting, 10
- Sights, 16, 201
- Shells, extempore, 226
- Sporting, 231
- Rifling arrows, 624
- Rigs of vessels, 172
- Rio Negro huts, 307
- Rivers, ferrying wheels over, 144
- Hints on fording, 344
- Or ravines, to find the width of without instruments, 318
- Pearls, to find, 256
- Water flow, measurement of, 757
- 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
- Casting, for horses, 801
- Chain ladders, 348
- Hard rove, treatment of, 793
- Hay, 792
- Hide, 784
- Ladders, 348
- Making, 790
- Materials for, 788
- Pack, 465
- Straw, 792
- Strength of, to estimate, 793
- Weight of, to estimate, 793
- Rucksacks, 787
- Rudders, temporary, 178
- Rue ruddy, 395
- Rules for passing through breakers, 176
- For sailing boats, 177
- To be observed when sledging, 401
- Rush mats, 283
- Russian cargo boat, 102
- Routes, projection of, 751
S.
Sabots and socks, 428
- Sacks, ruck, 787
- Saddles, 32
- And gun rests, 392
- Cases, 34
- Cloths, 33
- Cross-tree, 465
- Pack, 35
- Packing of, 37
- Spanish pack, 463
- Sago cakes, 556
- Sailing boats, rules for, 177
- Sails and their substitutes, 172
- Kites used as, 182
- To reef from the sides, 174
- Substitutes for, 174
- Samovar, 90
- Sandals, 426
- Sand, &c. from gun locks, to remove, 69
- Sap from timber, to extract, 355
- Of plants as substitute for water, 491
- 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
- Securing cattle, 469
- Fish from alligators, 591
- Gunpowder, mode of, 37
- Horses, 472
- Horse for an operation, 800
- Tent ropes, modes of, 65
- Seeds and roots of lotus as food, 564
- Sedge grass raft, 150
- Selection of bullet moulds, 9
- Ground for tent pitching, 66
- Guns, 9
- Iron articles, 446
- Rifles, 10
- Servants, 704
- 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
- Sheds, reed, 293
- Sheath knives or bayonets, 202
- Shears to construct bridge, 336
- Sheep killing, 560
- Sheet-copper boat, 50, 51
- Iron, weight of, 808
- Metal, to join, 211
- Metal, snips for cutting, 213
- Shells for rifles, extempore, 226
- Of cocoa-nut, use of, 526
- Shelves, makeshift, 293
- Ship-board, fastening camels on, 489
- Ships, rafts from, 92
- Shirts, 4
- Shoe canoe, 161
- Shoeing horses, hints on, 798
- Shoemaker’s wax, 415
- Shoes and boots, 6, 412
- Shooting bustards, 670
- Tortoises with arrows, 624
- 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
- Skiff of copper or iron, 118
- Skins as food, 557
- Boat, 100
- Cattle boat, 99
- Dressing, 779
- Float for one man, 154
- Floats, 99
- Preparation of, for boots, 414
- Sleeping bags, 786
- Treatment, 774
- Use of, 784
- Water, 496
- Water, and bladders, repairing, 783
- Water, repairing leakage in, 499
- Water sacks, 780
- Slab plank and rafter bridges, 342
- Slaughtering sheep, 560
- Slaves and servants, hints on, 704
- Sledges, attachment of straps for, 399
- 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
- Sleeping bags, 786
- Slings for guns, 39
- Slow match and tinder, 537
- 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
- Snares, 673
- Snatch block, 385
- Snips for cutting sheet metal, 213
- Snow-blindness, and its remedy, 79
- Soap making, 785
- Socks and sabots, 428
- Softening brass, 210
- Solids, Weight of, 809
- Sore backs, 799
- Spanish pack saddle, 463
- Spawn, fish, preserving, 583
- Spars, carrying, rolling, or parbuckling, 352
- Scarfing or fishing of broken, 181
- Spearing fish, 607, 608
- Spears, Australian, 616
- Fish, weirs and dams, 596
- Throwing, Australian, 616
- Turtle, 617
- Specimens, botanical, collecting, 764
- Botanical, packing and preserving, 771
- Geological and mineralogical, collecting, 771
- Natural history, collecting, 763
- Natural history, preserving and packing, 766
- 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
- Stitching boots, 421
- Stockings and socks, 5
- Stock-whip handles and lead pencils, 225
- Stone hut, 280
- Quarry, 263
- Treatment of, 264
- Weapons, manufacture of, 625
- Weight, the, 810
- Stopping leaky boats, 91
- Stores, &c. required by 21 men for an 18 months’ expedition, 46
- Farriers’ and horse medicines, 84
- Stoves, Norwegian, 558
- Strains, remedy for, 79
- Straps for sledges, attachment of, 399
- Straw and hay ropes, spinning, 792
- Strength of ropes, to estimate, 793
- Stretchers, palanquins, &c., 682
- “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
- 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