Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration

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Author

Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875

Title

Shifts and expedients of camp life, travel & exploration

Credits

Produced by KD Weeks, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46446

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46446

Release Date

July 29, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Transcriber’s Note — SHIFTS AND EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. OUTFIT TO TAKE ABROAD. — Trunks and Boxes. — Shooting Gear. — Stationery and Artist’s Materials. — Scientific Instruments. — The Traveller’s Library. — Horse Equipment. — Cutlery. — Camp Furniture. — Tents, Canvas Buckets and Articles made of Canvas generally. — Odds and Ends. — Medicine and Dressings for Wounds. — Horse Medicines and Farrier’s Stores. — Lamps, Lights, and Lanterns.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. BOATS, RAFTS, AND MAKE-SHIFT FLOATS.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. WORKING IN METALS.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. HUTS AND HOUSES.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. EXTEMPORE BRIDGES AND MAKESHIFTS FOR CROSSING RIVERS OR RAVINES. — To find the Width of a River without Instruments. — To find, without Instruments, the Height of a Tree or other Object, whose Base is accessible.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. TIMBER AND ITS UTILISATION.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. SLEDGES AND SLEDGE TRAVELLING.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. BOOTS, SHOES, AND SANDALS.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. WAGGONS AND OTHER WHEELED VEHICLES. — Case I.—Gun without a Waggon—Carriage disabled. — Case II.—A Gun with a Waggon—Carriage disabled. — Case III.—A Gun Axletree Arm broken. — Case IV.—A Gun and Waggon—The Gun Limber disabled. — Case V.—Waggon Limber disabled.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. HARNESS AND PACK ANIMALS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. CATTLE MARKING.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. HINTS ON HYGEENS AND CAMELS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. WATER, AND THE SAP OF PLANTS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. CAMP COOKERY.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. FISH AND AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. POISONED WEAPONS, ARROWS, SPEARS, &c.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. TRACKING, HUNTING, AND TRAPPING.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. PALANQUINS, STRETCHERS, AMBULANCES, ETC. — Tailor’s Work. — Distinctive Box Markings. — Demeanour towards Companions or Natives and White Servants, Hints on Travel, etc.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. ON SKETCHING AND PAINTING UNDER THE ORDINARY DIFFICULTIES OF TRAVEL.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. THE ESTIMATION OF DISTANCES AND HINTS ON FIELD OBSERVING. — On measuring the Distance travelled by Wheeled Carriages. — To ascertain the Variation of the Compass. — To obtain Levels or low Altitudes. — The Plane Table, and its Use. — Extemporised Sight Vane for Levelling Staff. — Makeshift Clinometer. — On the Use of the Sextant and Artificial Horizon. — Projection of Routes. — To construct a Map on Mercator’s Projection. — To measure the Number of Cubic Feet of Water conveyed by a River in each Second. — On obtaining Geographical Information from Natives or Frontier Colonists.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. HINTS TO EXPLORERS ON COLLECTING AND PRESERVING OBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. ROPES AND TWINE.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. BUSH VETERINARY SURGERY AND MEDICINE.
29. 29.APPENDIX. — Velocity Table. — Weight of a Superficial Foot of Plate or Sheet Iron. — Weight in Pounds of One Cubic Foot of the following Substances — Weight of Rod Iron One Foot in Length of the following Dimensions: — Relative Heat-conducting Power of different Bodies. — Relative Conducting Power of different Substances compared with each other. — Relative Conducting Power of Fluids. — Radiating Power of different Bodies. — The Stone Weight. — The Qualities of Gold.
30. 30.INDEX.
31. 31.ADVERTISEMENTS.
32. 32.Footnotes
33. 33.Transcriber’s Note

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