Chapter XLVIII: Appendix: Velocity Table (2)

Tempering tools, 204

Temporary repairs of vessels, 168
Rudders, 178
Stables, 294
Stern-posts, 181
Wigwam, 277

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
String of bow, 622

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
Guns, 238

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
Holder, 555

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
Library for, 29, 31

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
Tables, 729

Troughs, cattle, for drinking, 493

Trousers, 4
Making, 696

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
Traps, 671

Turning wheel naves, 370

Turtle spears, 617

Twisting fishing lines, 598
Ropes, 790

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
Food, 563, 567
Preserved, 582

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
For holding timber, 166

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
Key, to make a, 204

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
Sledge, 397

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
Temporary, 277

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
Extraction of sap, 355
Floats, 99, 163
Hard, 358
Hardening, 357
Seasoning, 355
Steaming, 357

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

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Transcriber's Note

Obvious errors and omissions of punctuation have been corrected, as noted in the table below. Most obvious spelling errors, where the printer was the likely source, have been corrected as well.

The many fractions in the text are represented, for consistency, as, for instance, 2-2/3 for two and two thirds.

The Dutch or Afrikaans 'remschoenen' (brakeshoes) appears on pp. 145-146 as 'reim-schoens' and 'rein-schoems'. Though the former is more nearly correct, both are retained.

The word 'mattress' is spelled more frequently 'mattrass'. Both are retained.

On pp. 187–188, the quoted passage beginning "I have had a little experience..." has no closing quote. It is presumed that it ends with the paragraph, and the quotation mark has been added.

On p. 215, the final closing parenthesis of phrase ending "though many other varieties may be used)" is unmatched. Either the entire phrase was meant to be parenthetical, or the punctuation itself is unintentional. It has been removed, in any case, as unnecessary.

In the table for 9-pounder brass field guns on p. 241, the length of fuse for an elevation of 5 is printed as ·0. It is most likely that this is a misprint of 1·0.

On p. 457, the phrase "whether the traces are of rope chain or leather" may be missing a comma. It is not obvious what a "rope chain" might be.

On p. 573, the passage "...when it is not adopted in North America. The flesh of the buffalo, or bison, and in South America that of the domestic, or rather half-wild, ox, is used..." seems mispunctuated. It is likely that the passage should read: "...when it is not adopted. In North America, the flesh of the buffalo...".

The six column table Table of Altitudes on p. 742 has been reconfigured to four columns to limit its width. As in the original, the final values of each pair of columns is repeated in the first row of the second pair, etc. This was done to facilitate its use according to the instructions that follow it.

The very wide table of gold quality around the world on p. 811 et seq. has been reformated to fit the size constraints of this version.

In the Index, the major topic was repeated on each column or page break. These have been removed, and the punctuation and capitalization regularized. One lapse in the alphabetic sort order was corrected. A semi-colon separator is used twice, with the two items on the same line. These are retained.

The hyphen in compound words which appeared on a line break has been removed if that form is most common elsewhere in the text.

The following list describes any obvious printer's errors that were detected, and the resolution of each.

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p. 63 ar[r]angement Added.

p. 154 the sponging bath would carry 190lb.["] Added.

p. 215 though many other varieties may be used[)] Removed.

p. 256 ["]Fig. 22. Beryl Added.

p. 457 the traces are of rope chain or leather _sic_

p. 486 Eg[py/yp]t Transposed.

p. 527 _Mauri[l/t]ia flexuosa_ Corrected.

p. 642 mar[sk/ks]man Transposed.

p. 653 testacles _sic_

p. 660 indulg[o/e] Corrected.

p. 705 or will you be shot?["] Added.
take the flogging offhand.["] Added.
the singing of it.["] Added.

p. 716 transportat[i]on Added.

p. 725 Veneti[a]n Added.

p. 744 Dr. Living[s]tone's Added.

p. 784 When fat is to [be] stored up Added.