T.Table necessaries,70Plane, and its use,735Tables, altitudes,742Heat conducting bodies,809,810Mapping,755Quality of gold,810Radiating heat power of bodies,810Strength of various bodies,812Trocheameter,729Velocity,808Weight of rod iron,809Weight of sheet iron,808Weight of solids,809Tacking by means of kites,184Tackle, fishing, making, and hints on,583Tailor’s work,696Taking bees’ nests,580Tana trap,664Tanning skins,779Taps and dies for bolts and nuts,198Tartar bridges,328Hut,294Tea, uses of,570Teeth of draught animals and their irregularities,805Tempering tools,204Temporary repairs of vessels,168Rudders,178Stables,294Stern-posts,181Wigwam,277Tendons, use of,784Tente d’abri,57Tents, Australian,59Belt, to increase size of,61Blanket,59Cape-waggon,59D’abri,57Esquimaux,315Extemporary,60Fitting up of,61Gipsy,57Lancers’,58Lining to old huts,61Or tilt for Cape waggons,130Patrol,55Pegs,64Pitching,55Pitching, selection of ground for,66Ropes, modes of securing,65Umbrella,67Used in Crimea,62Testing firearms,13Tests for minerals and metals,260For wrought or malleable iron,447Thatches for houses and huts,285,288Theodolite,745Thermometers,26Things to be thought of when designing a boat,105Thorn wreath, catching deer with,624Thread for boot making,420Throwing a horse,800Oil on troubled waters,176Tightening harness,465String of bow,622Tilt or tent for Cape waggons,130Timber, extraction of sap,355Felling,268Hardening,357Logging-up,269Seasoning,355Splitting,271Steaming,357Vice for holding,166When to cut,270Time, estimation of,740Guns,238Tin cases, utilisation of,212Tinder and slow match,537Tinning copper and iron,210Tip-up,602Tires of wheels, to repair,195Tobogun sledge,403Toddy, palm,524Tools, chest, portable,44Carpenter’s,41For mining,252Hold-all, convenient form of,43Smith’s, for travelling,208Tempering,204To take abroad,44Torches,89Holder,555Torres Straits boats,162Tortillas,544Tortoises, shooting, with arrows,624Tourniquets,695Tracking,628Transportation of flesh, hints on,576Traps, arrow,657Aquatic bird,675Baits for,667Bear,663Bird,673Blackcock,672Deer,659Elk,658Fall,662Figure of four,663Fish, basket,595,597Fox,664Hook,664Iron,665Martin,662Oneida,665Pen,671Plank fall,664Porcupine,657Setting of,665Squirrel,663Tana,664Turkey,671Trapping amphibious animals,666Hints on,666Travail sledge,404Travel, hints on,711Painting and sketching during,716Traveller, making and working a,594Travellers, geology for,250Library for,29,31Treating fat,784Treatment of apparently drowned persons,188Fly infested animals,804Hard rove rope,793Skins,774Stone,264Tree footways,330Trees, larch,358Stripping bark from,789Whose bases are accessible, to find the height of without instruments,321Yielding manna,529Treenails, making,326Trenneled rafts,146Trestle bridge, Chinese,343Trimmers and liggers,591Trimming and filing up after forging,194Tripping a grapnel or creeper,603Trocheameter,727Tables,729Troughs, cattle, for drinking,493Trousers,4Making,696Trunks, bullock,8Tsetse-fly,650Preventive of bite,654Region of the,652Symptoms of bite,653Tubes of inflated canvas, boat fitted with,170Turkeys, catching,670Traps,671Turning wheel naves,370Turtle spears,617Twisting fishing lines,598Ropes,790Two-wheeled drays, Australian,454U. Umbrella tent,67Union links,462Unspiking cannon,243Use of bladders,783Horns, bones, tendons, fish skins, &c.,784Plane table,735Sextant and artificial horizon,743Waggon wheels in tents,63Useful roots for food,533Uses of bamboos,358Bark,789Bent wood,380Cocoa-nut palms,360Forked sticks,388Hippopotami,616Porpoises,613Scrap and hook iron,104Tea,570Utilisation of tin cases,212V. Vaal River hut,281Vane, sight, extemporised for levelling staff,737Variation of the compass, to ascertain,732Various foods,566Vegetables and fruit,567Food,563,567Preserved,582Vehicles, wheeled, measuring distances travelled by,726Velocity table,808Vessels during calms, Admiral Belcher’s expedient for moving,175Rigs of,172Temporary repairs of,168Vices and anvils, extempore,197For holding timber,166Village and farm, to fortify,298Vinegar, Palm,525W. Wads and cartridges for cannon,243Walls, to build,291Waggons and other wheeled vehicles,432Arobas,441Australian two-wheeled,454Buik,437Buy,297Cape,433Cape wine,440Equipment,446Floating,144From quicksands, &c. to extricate,145Load for Cape,453Indian gharrie,441Hints on matters connected with,446Horse and mule,442Makeshift,438Wilson (American),443Waistcoats,4Watch,29Key, to make a,204Wattle on hurdle work,382Wattled boat,125Water and the sap of plants,491Bags, ships’,498Baskets for holding,500Bladders and panniers for holding,499Boiling without pots,553Calabashes, horns, and egg shells for holding,498Carrying,495,500Casks, to embark,379Clock,741Collecting from rainfalls,504Dew collecting,518,523Distilling,494Filters,501,503,506Finding,493Flasks, copper,495From damp places, procuring,492From wells, procuring,492Glass, the deep,187In camel’s stomach,487Intestines for holding,500Level, substitute for,738Locality for,491Pails and skins,496Plants holding,504,522Substitute, plants and roots yielding sap as a,516,518,521Power wheels,511Purifying,507Raising from wells,508Removing impurities,505Sacks, skins,780Skins and bladders, repairing,783Skins and pails,490Skins, repairing leakage in,499Transport, canoe,496Waterflow of river, measurement of,757Watering cattle,493Waterproofing,186Waterspout baskets,500Wax, shoemakers’,415Weapons, stone, manufacture of,625Weather signs,185Weevils, preserving flour from,556Weight of rod iron,809Of rope, to estimate,793Of sheet iron,808Weirs, dams, and fish spears,596Welding iron,192Wells, making extempore,492Procuring water from,492Raising water from,508Sinking,513Whale boat,610Whaling,610Wheeled carriages, measuring distances travelled by,726Wheels, drags for,443Horizontal, application of wind power to,512In tents, use of,63Making or building,366,371Over rivers, ferrying,144Repairing,195Substitute for a,445Tires, to repair,195Water power,511Wheeled vehicles,432Whip handles and lead pencils,225Sledge,397Whiskey, Potato,534White ants, locusts and other insects, and their larvæ as food,562Wicks for lamps,85Width of rivers or ravines, to find without instruments,318Wigwam, board,274Temporary,277Wild animals, observation of habits of,773Bees, to smoke out,537Fruits of America,530Wind power to horizontal wheel, application of,512Windlasses,373Womera,617Wood, bent,380Extraction of sap,355Floats,99,163Hard,358Hardening,357Seasoning,355Steaming,357Wooden bowls,393Dingey, building a,123Platform boat, materials for,111Swivels,361Working a nave auger,376Otter,593Travellers,594Trimmers and liggers,591Wounds, dressing for,73From poisoned arrows, cure of,620Ointment for,802On camels’ backs,800Wrappers as blankets,46Wreaths, thorn, catching deer with,624Wrecked ships, rafts from,92Wrecks, Flour from,557Wrought or malleable iron, test for,447Y.Yoke, pail,391Yoking and harnessing draught oxen,452,454,455Z.Zembourcks or dromedary artillery,245
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