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.