T.
- Table necessaries, 70
- Tables, altitudes, 742
- Heat conducting bodies, 809, 810
- Mapping, 755
- Quality of gold, 810
- Radiating heat power of bodies, 810
- Strength of various bodies, 812
- Trocheameter, 729
- Velocity, 808
- Weight of rod iron, 809
- Weight of sheet iron, 808
- Weight of solids, 809
- Tacking by means of kites, 184
- Tackle, fishing, making, and hints on, 583
- Tailor’s work, 696
- Taking bees’ nests, 580
- Tana trap, 664
- Tanning skins, 779
- Taps and dies for bolts and nuts, 198
- Tartar bridges, 328
- Tea, uses of, 570
- Teeth of draught animals and their irregularities, 805
- Tempering tools, 204
- Temporary repairs of vessels, 168
- Tendons, use of, 784
- Tente d’abri, 57
- Tents, Australian, 59
- Belt, to increase size of, 61
- Blanket, 59
- Cape-waggon, 59
- D’abri, 57
- Esquimaux, 315
- Extemporary, 60
- Fitting up of, 61
- Gipsy, 57
- Lancers’, 58
- Lining to old huts, 61
- Or tilt for Cape waggons, 130
- Patrol, 55
- Pegs, 64
- Pitching, 55
- Pitching, selection of ground for, 66
- Ropes, modes of securing, 65
- Umbrella, 67
- Used in Crimea, 62
- Testing firearms, 13
- Tests for minerals and metals, 260
- For wrought or malleable iron, 447
- Thatches for houses and huts, 285, 288
- Theodolite, 745
- Thermometers, 26
- Things to be thought of when designing a boat, 105
- Thorn wreath, catching deer with, 624
- Thread for boot making, 420
- Throwing a horse, 800
- Oil on troubled waters, 176
- Tightening harness, 465
- Tilt or tent for Cape waggons, 130
- Timber, extraction of sap, 355
- Felling, 268
- Hardening, 357
- Logging-up, 269
- Seasoning, 355
- Splitting, 271
- Steaming, 357
- Vice for holding, 166
- When to cut, 270
- Time, estimation of, 740
- Tin cases, utilisation of, 212
- Tinder and slow match, 537
- Tinning copper and iron, 210
- Tip-up, 602
- Tires of wheels, to repair, 195
- Tobogun sledge, 403
- Toddy, palm, 524
- Tools, chest, portable, 44
- Carpenter’s, 41
- For mining, 252
- Hold-all, convenient form of, 43
- Smith’s, for travelling, 208
- Tempering, 204
- To take abroad, 44
- Torches, 89
- Torres Straits boats, 162
- Tortillas, 544
- Tortoises, shooting, with arrows, 624
- Tourniquets, 695
- Tracking, 628
- Transportation of flesh, hints on, 576
- Traps, arrow, 657
- Aquatic bird, 675
- Baits for, 667
- Bear, 663
- Bird, 673
- Blackcock, 672
- Deer, 659
- Elk, 658
- Fall, 662
- Figure of four, 663
- Fish, basket, 595, 597
- Fox, 664
- Hook, 664
- Iron, 665
- Martin, 662
- Oneida, 665
- Pen, 671
- Plank fall, 664
- Porcupine, 657
- Setting of, 665
- Squirrel, 663
- Tana, 664
- Turkey, 671
- Trapping amphibious animals, 666
- Hints on, 666
- Travail sledge, 404
- Travel, hints on, 711
- Painting and sketching during, 716
- Traveller, making and working a, 594
- Travellers, geology for, 250
- Treating fat, 784
- Treatment of apparently drowned persons, 188
- Fly infested animals, 804
- Hard rove rope, 793
- Skins, 774
- Stone, 264
- Tree footways, 330
- Trees, larch, 358
- Stripping bark from, 789
- Whose bases are accessible, to find the height of without
instruments, 321
- Yielding manna, 529
- Treenails, making, 326
- Trenneled rafts, 146
- Trestle bridge, Chinese, 343
- Trimmers and liggers, 591
- Trimming and filing up after forging, 194
- Tripping a grapnel or creeper, 603
- Trocheameter, 727
- Troughs, cattle, for drinking, 493
- Trousers, 4
- Trunks, bullock, 8
- Tsetse-fly, 650
- Preventive of bite, 654
- Region of the, 652
- Symptoms of bite, 653
- Tubes of inflated canvas, boat fitted with, 170
- Turkeys, catching, 670
- Turning wheel naves, 370
- Turtle spears, 617
- Twisting fishing lines, 598
- Two-wheeled drays, Australian, 454
U.
Umbrella tent, 67
- Union links, 462
- Unspiking cannon, 243
- Use of bladders, 783
- Horns, bones, tendons, fish skins, &c., 784
- Plane table, 735
- Sextant and artificial horizon, 743
- Waggon wheels in tents, 63
- Useful roots for food, 533
- Uses of bamboos, 358
- Bark, 789
- Bent wood, 380
- Cocoa-nut palms, 360
- Forked sticks, 388
- Hippopotami, 616
- Porpoises, 613
- Scrap and hook iron, 104
- Tea, 570
- Utilisation of tin cases, 212
V.
Vaal River hut, 281
- Vane, sight, extemporised for levelling staff, 737
- Variation of the compass, to ascertain, 732
- Various foods, 566
- Vegetables and fruit, 567
- Vehicles, wheeled, measuring distances travelled by, 726
- Velocity table, 808
- Vessels during calms, Admiral Belcher’s expedient for moving, 175
- Rigs of, 172
- Temporary repairs of, 168
- Vices and anvils, extempore, 197
- Village and farm, to fortify, 298
- Vinegar, Palm, 525
W.
Wads and cartridges for cannon, 243
- Walls, to build, 291
- Waggons and other wheeled vehicles, 432
- Arobas, 441
- Australian two-wheeled, 454
- Buik, 437
- Buy, 297
- Cape, 433
- Cape wine, 440
- Equipment, 446
- Floating, 144
- From quicksands, &c. to extricate, 145
- Load for Cape, 453
- Indian gharrie, 441
- Hints on matters connected with, 446
- Horse and mule, 442
- Makeshift, 438
- Wilson (American), 443
- Waistcoats, 4
- Watch, 29
- Wattle on hurdle work, 382
- Wattled boat, 125
- Water and the sap of plants, 491
- Bags, ships’, 498
- Baskets for holding, 500
- Bladders and panniers for holding, 499
- Boiling without pots, 553
- Calabashes, horns, and egg shells for holding, 498
- Carrying, 495, 500
- Casks, to embark, 379
- Clock, 741
- Collecting from rainfalls, 504
- Dew collecting, 518, 523
- Distilling, 494
- Filters, 501, 503, 506
- Finding, 493
- Flasks, copper, 495
- From damp places, procuring, 492
- From wells, procuring, 492
- Glass, the deep, 187
- In camel’s stomach, 487
- Intestines for holding, 500
- Level, substitute for, 738
- Locality for, 491
- Pails and skins, 496
- Plants holding, 504, 522
- Substitute, plants and roots yielding sap as a, 516, 518, 521
- Power wheels, 511
- Purifying, 507
- Raising from wells, 508
- Removing impurities, 505
- Sacks, skins, 780
- Skins and bladders, repairing, 783
- Skins and pails, 490
- Skins, repairing leakage in, 499
- Transport, canoe, 496
- Waterflow of river, measurement of, 757
- Watering cattle, 493
- Waterproofing, 186
- Waterspout baskets, 500
- Wax, shoemakers’, 415
- Weapons, stone, manufacture of, 625
- Weather signs, 185
- Weevils, preserving flour from, 556
- Weight of rod iron, 809
- Of rope, to estimate, 793
- Of sheet iron, 808
- Weirs, dams, and fish spears, 596
- Welding iron, 192
- Wells, making extempore, 492
- Procuring water from, 492
- Raising water from, 508
- Sinking, 513
- Whale boat, 610
- Whaling, 610
- Wheeled carriages, measuring distances travelled by, 726
- Wheels, drags for, 443
- Horizontal, application of wind power to, 512
- In tents, use of, 63
- Making or building, 366, 371
- Over rivers, ferrying, 144
- Repairing, 195
- Substitute for a, 445
- Tires, to repair, 195
- Water power, 511
- Wheeled vehicles, 432
- Whip handles and lead pencils, 225
- Whiskey, Potato, 534
- White ants, locusts and other insects, and their larvæ as food, 562
- Wicks for lamps, 85
- Width of rivers or ravines, to find without instruments, 318
- Wigwam, board, 274
- Wild animals, observation of habits of, 773
- Bees, to smoke out, 537
- Fruits of America, 530
- Wind power to horizontal wheel, application of, 512
- Windlasses, 373
- Womera, 617
- Wood, bent, 380
- Wooden bowls, 393
- Dingey, building a, 123
- Platform boat, materials for, 111
- Swivels, 361
- Working a nave auger, 376
- Otter, 593
- Travellers, 594
- Trimmers and liggers, 591
- Wounds, dressing for, 73
- From poisoned arrows, cure of, 620
- Ointment for, 802
- On camels’ backs, 800
- Wrappers as blankets, 46
- Wreaths, thorn, catching deer with, 624
- Wrecked ships, rafts from, 92
- Wrecks, Flour from, 557
- Wrought or malleable iron, test for, 447
Y.
- Yoke, pail, 391
- Yoking and harnessing draught oxen, 452, 454, 455
Z.
- Zembourcks or dromedary artillery, 245