Specific gravities of wood.

Spectacles for snow; for seeing under water.

Speke, Captain.

Spokeshave.

Sponge, lapping up water from puddles; dew from leaves.

Spontaneous combustion.

Spoons.

Spring gun; bow.

Springes.

Squaring (right angles to lay out).

Stalking-horses and screens; stalking game.

Stars for bearings.

Starving men.

Steels for flints; steel tools; cast steel;
case-hardening.

Sticks, small, for lighting fires; for fire by rubbing; for tenting purposes and substitutes; to bend or straighten.

Still (distilling).

Sting of scorpions and wasps.

Stirrups.

Stitches.

Stockings.

Stones, heated, to make water boil; as weapons of defence; as marks by roadside; to chisel marks upon.

Stool.

Stoppers.

Stores, lists of; store-keeping.

Strait-waistcoat.

Straw, to work; straw walls.

Stretchers.

String.

Strychnine.

Stuffy bedding.

Sturt, Captain.

Sulphur matches; for gun-powder.

Sunrise and sunset, diagram.

Sun signals; solar bearings.

Surveying Instruments.

Swag.

Swamps.

Swimming—­Rate of swimming; learning to swim; to support those who cannot swim; landing through breakers; floats; African swimming ferry; swimming with parcels; with horses; taking a wagon across a river; water spectaacles;—­Swimming with carcass of game; with sheath knife.

Swivels for tether ropes.

Sympathetic ink.

Syphons, to empty water vessels.

Tables and chairs.

Tables, of diet; of outfit; for rate of movement; of chords; for triangulation by chords.

Tallow for candles (see “Grease").

Tanks for wagons.

Tar; tarpaulin; tarring wheels.

Tawing hides.

Taylor, Mr.

Tea, theory of making.

Temper, good.

Temper of steel, to reduce.

Tents—­General remarks; materials for making them; large tents; smalltents; pitching tents; tent poles; tying things to them; to warm tents; permanent camp; to search for things lost in the sand; precautions against thieves—­Awning, to litter; to boat; sail tent; tent and sleeping bag; gipsy tent.

Tethers.

Thatch.

Theory of finding a lost path; of fords; of fountains; of loads and distances; of nutriment; of reconnoitring by help of depots; of tea making.

Thiercelin, M.

Thieves, hedge round tent; tricks upon (see Hostilities).

Thirst (see Water for Drinking).

Thorn-wreath in noosing animals.

Thread.

Thumbs, to tie.

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.").