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Tiller.
Timber--Green wood, to season; to bend wood; carpenters'
tools; sharpening tools; nails, substitutes for; lathe;
charcoal, tar, and pitch; turpentine and resin--See also "Trees.").

Tiimber-hitch (knot).

Time, to measure; journey measured by.

Tin; tin boat.

Tinder; tinder-boxes.

Toggle and strop.

Toilet in travel.

Tools.

Toothache.

Tortoiseshell.

Touchwood; touch-paper.

Tourniquet.

Tow rope, to fix.

Traces (harness).

Tracing designs.

Tracks, convergence of, towards water; towards dead game; to
prepare ground to receive tracks; to obliterate tracks.

Transport, means of.

Trapping.

Travail (North America).

Travel, rate of.

Trees (see Timber), as shelter; to mark; to fell with fire;
to hollow with fire; as signs of neighbouring water; to
climb; to steer by; to make caches in; boughs bent as
accumulators; bark to strip; tree-bridges.

Trektows (traces).

Triangulation; table for, by chords.

Trenches, for cooking.

Trimmers.

Trous de loup.

Trowsers.

Tschudi, Dr.

Tulchan bishops.

Turf screen against wind.

Turnscrew in pocket-knife.

Turpentine.

Turtle, water in its pericardium.

Tylor, Mr.

Tyndall, Professor.

Uganda thorn-wreath.

Ulysses.

Underground huts.

Units of length.

Ure's Dictionary.

Vapour baths.

Varnish of sealing-wax.

Vavasour, Lady.

Vegetables, Chollet's.

Vegetation indicates water.

Verification of instruments.

Vermin on the person.

Vessels to carry water, small; large.

Vice in horses; in oxen.

Virgil.

Vital heat.

Vraic (see "Seaweed").

Vulture trapping.

Wadding.

Wafers,.

Wagons; to take across a river; axle-tree, to repair.

Waistcoat; strait-waistcoat.

Wakefulness.

Walls; of snow; of straw or reeds.

Washing clothes; oneself.

Watch, pocket for; watch-glass as a burning lens; cover as a
reflector.

Watching.

Water for Drinking--General remarks; signs of the
neighbourhood of water; pools of water; fountains; wells;
snow-water; distilled water; occasional means of quenching
thirst; to purify water that is muddy or putrid; thirst, to
relieve; small water-vessels; kegs and tanks; to raise
water from wells for cattle--To see things under water;
shooting by waterside; floating game across water; raising
heavy bodies out of water; banks of watercourse a bad pathway;
bivouac by water; water causes earth over caches to sink;
waterproofing.

Wattle and daub.

Wax, bee-hives, to find; waxed paper; wax candles;
shoemakers' wax.

Way, to find--Recollection of a path; to walk in a straight
line through forest; to find the best way down a hill-side;
blind paths; lost in a fog; mirage; lost path;
theory.

Weapons of defence.

Weaving mats; girths.

Webbing.

Weber, Dr.

Weights drawn and carried by cattle; theory of, and distances;
heavy weights, to move; to carry.

Welding iron.

Wells; dry, used as sleeping places.

Wet clothes, to dry (see "Dry").

Whalebone.

Wheels, to tar and grease; tire made of hide.

Whistle.

Whitewash.

Whymper, Mr.

Williams, Rev. Mr.

Wind, shelter from; as a guide.

Women, strength of; kindliness of.

Wood (see Timber and Trees) shavings for bed; fire-wood Wooden
cups for tea; shingles for roof.

Woolley, Mr.

Wounded persons, to carry.

Wrangel, Admiral.

Writing Materials--Paper; bookbinding; pens and
paint-brushes; ink; ox-gall; wafers, paste, and gum;
signets; sealing-wax varnish; small boxes for specimens;
Letters, to deposit en cache; writing in the dark; on
horseback.

Wyndham, Mr. F. M.

Zemsemiyah
    
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