The Art of Travel eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 457 pages of information about The Art of Travel.

The Art of Travel eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 457 pages of information about The Art of Travel.

Tiimber-hitch (knot).

Time, to measure; journey measured by.

Tin; tin boat.

Tinder; tinder-boxes.

Toggle and strop.

Toilet in travel.

Tools.

Toothache.

Tortoiseshell.

Touchwood; touch-paper.

Tourniquet.

Tow rope, to fix.

Traces (harness).

Tracing designs.

Tracks, convergence of, towards water; towards dead game; to prepare ground to receive tracks; to obliterate tracks.

Transport, means of.

Trapping.

Travail (North America).

Travel, rate of.

Trees (see Timber), as shelter; to mark; to fell with fire; to hollow with fire; as signs of neighbouring water; to climb; to steer by; to make caches in; boughs bent as accumulators; bark to strip; tree-bridges.

Trektows (traces).

Triangulation; table for, by chords.

Trenches, for cooking.

Trimmers.

Trous de loup.

Trowsers.

Tschudi, Dr.

Tulchan bishops.

Turf screen against wind.

Turnscrew in pocket-knife.

Turpentine.

Turtle, water in its pericardium.

Tylor, Mr.

Tyndall, Professor.

Uganda thorn-wreath.

Ulysses.

Underground huts.

Units of length.

Ure’s Dictionary.

Vapour baths.

Varnish of sealing-wax.

Vavasour, Lady.

Vegetables, Chollet’s.

Vegetation indicates water.

Verification of instruments.

Vermin on the person.

Vessels to carry water, small; large.

Vice in horses; in oxen.

Virgil.

Vital heat.

Vraic (see “Seaweed").

Vulture trapping.

Wadding.

Wafers,.

Wagons; to take across a river; axle-tree, to repair.

Waistcoat; strait-waistcoat.

Wakefulness.

Walls; of snow; of straw or reeds.

Washing clothes; oneself.

Watch, pocket for; watch-glass as a burning lens; cover as a reflector.

Watching.

Water for Drinking—­General remarks; signs of the neighbourhood of water; pools of water; fountains; wells; snow-water; distilled water; occasional means of quenching thirst; to purify water that is muddy or putrid; thirst, to relieve; small water-vessels; kegs and tanks; to raise water from wells for cattle—­To see things under water; shooting by waterside; floating game across water; raising heavy bodies out of water; banks of watercourse a bad pathway; bivouac by water; water causes earth over caches to sink; waterproofing.

Wattle and daub.

Wax, bee-hives, to find; waxed paper; wax candles;
shoemakers’ wax.

Way, to find—­Recollection of a path; to walk in a straight line through forest; to find the best way down a hill-side; blind paths; lost in a fog; mirage; lost path; theory.

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