Esquimaux, lamp for cooking; spectacles for snow; faw meat for
scurvy; raw meat and fur bag (see "Snow").

Estimates (see Outfit).

Everest, Colonel Sir G.

Expedition (see Organizing an Expedition).

Extract, of meat; of tea and coffee.

Eyre, General.

Faggot hung to gree, as a mark.

Falconer, Mr.

Fat (see "Grease").

Feast-days.

Feathers, for bed; for mark by road-side; on string, to scare
game.

Felt, to make.

Ferns as food.

Ferry, African, of calabashes; of reeds; flying bridges.

Fever, I.

Filters.

Fire--General remarks; to obtain fire from the sun (burning-glasses,
reflectors); by conversion of motion into heat (flint and steel, guns,
lucifers, fire-sticks); by chemical means (spontaneous combustion);
tinder; tinder-boxes; fuel; small fuel for lighting the fire; to
kindle a spark into a flame; camp fires Burning down trees; hollows
in wood; fire-beacons; prairie on fire; first obliterate cache marks;
leave an enduring mark; heating power of fuels; blacksmithery; wet
clothes, to dry; tent, to warm; incombustible stuffs ( see "Brands").

Fishing--Fishing-tackle; to recover a lost line; otters; boat-fishing;
to see things under water; nets; spearing fish; intoxicating fish;
otters, cormorants, and dogs; Fish roe as food; fish, dried and pounded;
fish skin (see "Skin"); fish-hook for springes.

Fitzroy, Admiral.

Flags, for signals.

Flannel; to wash.

Flash of sun from mirror.

Flashing signals.

Flashing alphabet.

Flask, battered, to mend (see).

Fleas.

Flies, near cattle-kraals.

Flints; for gun; sparks used as a signal; as a light to show the
road; flint knives.

Floats; floating powers of wood.

Flogging.

Floors, to make.

Flour, nutritive value; to carry.

Flying bridges.

Food--Nutritive elements of food; food suitable for stores;
condiments; butcher; store-keeping; wholesome food procurable in
bush; revolting food, to save lives of starving men;
cooking utensils; fire-places for cooking; ovens;
bush-cookery.

Forbes, Captain, R.N.

Forbes, Professor J.

Fords and Bridges--Fords; swamps; passing things from hand to hand;
plank roads; snow-drifts and weak ice; bridges; flying bridges.

Forge.

Forest as shelter; log huts; to travel in a straight line
through forests.

Form, for log-book; calculations; for agreement with
servants.

Fortification of camp.

Fountains.

Fuel; heating powers of various kinds.

Fulminating powder in destroying wolves; percussion caps.

Furnioture--Bed.; hammocks and cots; mosquito-nets; chairs;
table--(See also).

Fusees, in making a fire.

Gall (ox-gall); girth-galls; blisters.

Game, other means of Capturing (besides shooting)--General remarks;
springes; pitfalls; traps; poison; bird-line; catching with
the hand; bolas; lasso; ham-stringing; hawking To hide from
animals of prey; division of spoils; to float across a river;
to carry Dead animals, to find; water, in paunch of.

Garibaldi.

Gauze, for mosquito-curtains; to make incombustible; stretched
over mercurial horizon.

Geographical Society.

Gilby, Mr.

Gipsy tent; marks (patterans).

Girths; girth-galls.

Glass, to shape; substitute for, in mercurial horizon; to
silver; substitute for glass.

Glaisher, Mr.

Glaze for pottery.

Glove (bath-glove).

Glue.

Goats.

Gold, to carry.

Gourd float; boat (makara).

Grains (for spearing fish).

Grant, Captain.

Grass shutters.

Graters.

Grease for leather; in dressing skins; for wheels; to procure
from bones; for relieving thirst; oiling the person; butter;
olive oil, to purify.

Gregory, Mr.

Gul (ball of charcoal).

Gum.

Gun-fittings and Ammunition--Powder-flask; percussion-caps;
wadding; flints; gunpowder; bullets; shot and slug.

Guns and Rifles--Breech-loading; best size of gun; sights,
ramrod, etc.; rust; olive-oil, to purify; injuries to gun, to
repair; guns to hang up; to carry on a journey; on horse-back;
to dispose of at night; to clean--To procure fire; to set an
alarm-gun; to support tenting.

Gunpowder, to make; to carry; mark on stone left by flash;
in lighting a fire; in making touch-paper; substitute for salt;
fulminating powder to kill beasts; powder-flask; battered,
to mend (see).

Gut; catgut.

Gutta percha (see "Macintosh").

Guy-rope in tenting.

Haemorrhage.

Haggis.

Hall, Dr. Marshall.

Hammering, sound of.

Hammock.

Hamstringing.

Handing things across a swamp.

Handbook for Field Service.

Handkerchief, to sling a jar; to tie the wrists.

Hands of prisoner, to secure.

Harness--Saddles for riding; bags; sore backs; pack-saddles;
pack-bags; art of packing; girths, stirrups, bridles, etc.;
tethers, hobbles and knee-halters; horse-collar, traces and
trek-tows.

Hats Hawker, Colonel.

Hawks for hawking; to trap.

Head, Sir F.

Hearne, Mr.

Heat, vital; heating power of different fuels (see Fire).

Heather in bivouac.

Heavy bodies, to move.

Heber, Bishop.

Heliostat.

Helm.

Hides (see "Skins;" also Leather).

Hiding-places (see Caches and Depots).

Hills (see Climbing, etc.).

Hitch, Malay (see Knots).

Hobbies.

Holes, to dig.

Honey, to find; honey-bird.

Hooker, Dr.

Hooks, for walls of hut; fish-hooks; for springes.

Horizon, artificial.

Horn; substitute for glass; powder-horn.

Horse; to check descent of wagon; tied to sleeping master;
to horn of dead game; picketted to a dateram; running by side
of; climbing with; descending with; in deep snow;
swimming with; carrying a gun on; loading on; tying a
prisooner on; raising water from wells; horseflesh; hair
for string; collar.

Hostilities--To fortify a camp; weapons to resist an attack;
natives forbidden to throng the camp; keeping watch;
prairie set on fire; tricks upon robbers; passing through a
hostile country; securing prisoners; proceedings in case of
death.

Hours' journey.

Huber, M.

Hue and Gabet, MM. Hunger.

Huts--Log huts; underground huts; snow-houses; wattle and daub;
palisades; straw or reed walls; bark; mats; Malay hitch;
tarpaulin; whitewash; roofs, floors, windows.

Ice, weak, to cross; axe; burning lens, made of.

Incombustible stuffs.

Index, to make.

India-rubber (see "MacIntosh").

Information, preparatory, to obtain; through native women.

Ink; autographic; sympathetic.

Insects as food; mosquitos; flies; fleas; lice.

Instruments for surveying; verification of; porters for;
surgical instruments.

Interpreters.

Intesting to carry water; as swimming-belt; to make catgut from;
membrane thread.

Iron, ore to reduce; forge; boats.

Isinglass.

Ivory, to sling on pack-saddle.

Jar, to sling.

Jackson, Colonel.

Javelins, set over beast paths.

Jerked meat.

Jewels, to secrete.

Jourt, Kirghis.

Kabobs.

Kane, Dr.

Kegs for pack-saddles.

Keels.

Kerkari.

Kettle; used for distilling.

Kite, as a signal.

Knapsack sleeping-bag; to carry heavy weights knapsack fashion.

Knee-halter.

Knife.

Knots--See also "Knots in Alpine Ropes,"; tying to tent-pole;
tent-pole, to mend; knotting neck of a bag; Malay hitch;
matting and weaving; raft fastening; leather vessels, to
mend; hide lashings; rush chairs For a place to make fast to,
see "Burning down Trees,"; "Digging Holes to plant them,"; "Dateram,".

Kraals.

Ladder.

Laird, M'Gregor, Mr.

Lamp; of lead, to cast; Esquimaux; lamp-black.

Lantern.

Lappar (to scare game).

Lashings of raw hide.

Lasso.

Lathe.

Laws of the bush.

Lead; to cast.

Leaks, to caulk, in boats; in water vessels.

Leaping-ropes and poles.

Leather--To dress hides; to preserve them without dressing;
greasing leather Leather clothing; tents; lashings
of raw hide; leather vessels, to repair; ropes (See
"Skins.").

Leggings.

Leichhardt, Dr.

Length, measurement of.

Letters, to deposit; carried by animals; of alphabet, to stamp
and to brand.

Lever.

Lice.

Lime, to make; to poison fish; bird-lime.

Linen clothing.

Lines, for fishing.

Lists of stores; of instruments; alphabetical, to make.

Lithographic map, to make.

Litter for the wounded; horse-litter.

Livingstone, Dr.

Lloyd, Mr.

Loading guns.

Loads and distances, theory of.

Locusts, to cook.

Log-book; log for a boat's speed; log-hut.

Lopstick (to mark a road).

Lost road; articles in sand; fishing-line, in water; to
see things lost under water.

Lots how to draw.

Lucan, Lord.

Lucifer matches; for percussion caps.

Lunars.

Luxuries of tent-life.

Lye (for soap).

Lunch, Lieutenant.

McClintock, Captain Sir L.

Macgregor, Mr.

Macintosh for under bedding; sleeping-bag; inflatable boats;
water vessels; gun-cover; is spoilt by grease.

Maclear, Sir Thos.

McWilliams, Dr.

Madrina (of mules).

Magnetic bearings; magntism of rocks.

Makara (gourd-raft).

Malaria fever.

Malay hitch.

Marks for the way-side--Marks in the forest; for canoe routes;
marks with stones; gipsy and other marks; paint To mark cattle
(see also "Caches,").

Mask for snow mountains.

Mast, substitute for.

Match, lucifer; sulphur.

Mats; for tents (see "Reed huts,").

Mattresses; feathers for.

Meaden, Captain J.

Measurements--Distance travelled; of rate of movement;
tables for ditto; natural units; measurement of anagles;
chords and table of; triangulation; table for, on principle of
chords; time, measurement of.

Meat biscuit.

Mechanical appliances--On land; by wetted seeds;
accumulation of efforts; to raise weights out of water.

Medicine--General remarks; drugs and instruments; bush
remedies; illnesses and accidents; little for the wounded
(see also "Palanquin,").

Membrane, Sinew, Horn--Parchment; cat-gut; membrane
thread; sinews for thread; glue;; isinglass; horn,
tortoise-shell and whalebone.

Memoranda and Log-books--General remarks; pocket MS.-book;
log-book; calculation books; number of observations requiring
record Memoranda, to arrange.

Metals--Fuel for forge; bellows; iron and steel;
case-hardening; lead, to cast; tin-plates; copper.

Mercury to harden lead with.

Metallic (prepared) paper.

Miller, Professor W. H.

Milk, to preserve; sizing paper with; used as sympathetic ink;
to milk wild cows.

Milton, Lord.

Mirage.

Mirror, signalling with the sun.

Mitchell, Sir Thomas.

Moltke.

Mosquito curtains; tent of.

Moss on trees, a sign of direction.

Mould for candles.

Mountain (see Climbing and Mountaineering).

Muddy water, to filter.

Muff.

Mule.

Murray, Admiral Hon. C.

Nails, substitutes for.

Napoleon I., on bivouac.

Natives (see "Savages").

Navy (British) diet.

Needles.

Neighing.

Nets.

Nettle as food.

Niger, expedition to.

Night, to follow a track by; shooting; night-glass; compass.

Nocturnal animals.

Nooses.

Notes, to keep.

Notices to another party.

Number of a party; to camps.

Nunn, W. and Co.