V.
Vaal River hut, 281
Vane, sight, extemporised for levelling staff, 737
Variation of the compass, to ascertain, 732
Various foods, 566
Vegetables and fruit, 567 Food, 563, 567 Preserved, 582
Vehicles, wheeled, measuring distances travelled by, 726
Velocity table, 808
Vessels during calms, Admiral Belcher's expedient for moving, 175 Rigs of, 172 Temporary repairs of, 168
Vices and anvils, extempore, 197 For holding timber, 166
Village and farm, to fortify, 298
Vinegar, Palm, 525
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Walls, to build, 291
Waggons and other wheeled vehicles, 432 Arobas, 441 Australian two-wheeled, 454 Buik, 437 Buy, 297 Cape, 433 Cape wine, 440 Equipment, 446 Floating, 144 From quicksands, &c. to extricate, 145 Load for Cape, 453 Indian gharrie, 441 Hints on matters connected with, 446 Horse and mule, 442 Makeshift, 438 Wilson (American), 443
Waistcoats, 4
Watch, 29 Key, to make a, 204
Wattle on hurdle work, 382
Wattled boat, 125
Water and the sap of plants, 491 Bags, ships', 498 Baskets for holding, 500 Bladders and panniers for holding, 499 Boiling without pots, 553 Calabashes, horns, and egg shells for holding, 498 Carrying, 495, 500 Casks, to embark, 379 Clock, 741 Collecting from rainfalls, 504 Dew collecting, 518, 523 Distilling, 494 Filters, 501, 503, 506 Finding, 493 Flasks, copper, 495 From damp places, procuring, 492 From wells, procuring, 492 Glass, the deep, 187 In camel's stomach, 487 Intestines for holding, 500 Level, substitute for, 738 Locality for, 491 Pails and skins, 496 Plants holding, 504, 522 Substitute, plants and roots yielding sap as a, 516, 518, 521 Power wheels, 511 Purifying, 507 Raising from wells, 508 Removing impurities, 505 Sacks, skins, 780 Skins and bladders, repairing, 783 Skins and pails, 490 Skins, repairing leakage in, 499 Transport, canoe, 496
Waterflow of river, measurement of, 757
Watering cattle, 493
Waterproofing, 186
Waterspout baskets, 500
Wax, shoemakers', 415
Weapons, stone, manufacture of, 625
Weather signs, 185
Weevils, preserving flour from, 556
Weight of rod iron, 809 Of rope, to estimate, 793 Of sheet iron, 808
Weirs, dams, and fish spears, 596
Welding iron, 192
Wells, making extempore, 492 Procuring water from, 492 Raising water from, 508 Sinking, 513
Whale boat, 610
Whaling, 610
Wheeled carriages, measuring distances travelled by, 726
Wheels, drags for, 443 Horizontal, application of wind power to, 512 In tents, use of, 63 Making or building, 366, 371 Over rivers, ferrying, 144 Repairing, 195 Substitute for a, 445 Tires, to repair, 195 Water power, 511
Wheeled vehicles, 432
Whip handles and lead pencils, 225 Sledge, 397
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White ants, locusts and other insects, and their larvæ as food, 562
Wicks for lamps, 85
Width of rivers or ravines, to find without instruments, 318
Wigwam, board, 274 Temporary, 277
Wild animals, observation of habits of, 773 Bees, to smoke out, 537 Fruits of America, 530
Wind power to horizontal wheel, application of, 512
Windlasses, 373
Womera, 617
Wood, bent, 380 Extraction of sap, 355 Floats, 99, 163 Hard, 358 Hardening, 357 Seasoning, 355 Steaming, 357
Wooden bowls, 393 Dingey, building a, 123 Platform boat, materials for, 111 Swivels, 361
Working a nave auger, 376 Otter, 593 Travellers, 594 Trimmers and liggers, 591
Wounds, dressing for, 73 From poisoned arrows, cure of, 620 Ointment for, 802 On camels' backs, 800
Wrappers as blankets, 46
Wreaths, thorn, catching deer with, 624
Wrecked ships, rafts from, 92
Wrecks, Flour from, 557
Wrought or malleable iron, test for, 447
Y.
Yoke, pail, 391
Yoking and harnessing draught oxen, 452, 454, 455
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Transcriber's Note
Obvious errors and omissions of punctuation have been corrected, as noted in the table below. Most obvious spelling errors, where the printer was the likely source, have been corrected as well.
The many fractions in the text are represented, for consistency, as, for instance, 2-2/3 for two and two thirds.
The Dutch or Afrikaans 'remschoenen' (brakeshoes) appears on pp. 145-146 as 'reim-schoens' and 'rein-schoems'. Though the former is more nearly correct, both are retained.
The word 'mattress' is spelled more frequently 'mattrass'. Both are retained.
On pp. 187–188, the quoted passage beginning "I have had a little experience..." has no closing quote. It is presumed that it ends with the paragraph, and the quotation mark has been added.
On p. 215, the final closing parenthesis of phrase ending "though many other varieties may be used)" is unmatched. Either the entire phrase was meant to be parenthetical, or the punctuation itself is unintentional. It has been removed, in any case, as unnecessary.
In the table for 9-pounder brass field guns on p. 241, the length of fuse for an elevation of 5 is printed as ·0. It is most likely that this is a misprint of 1·0.
On p. 457, the phrase "whether the traces are of rope chain or leather" may be missing a comma. It is not obvious what a "rope chain" might be.
On p. 573, the passage "...when it is not adopted in North America. The flesh of the buffalo, or bison, and in South America that of the domestic, or rather half-wild, ox, is used..." seems mispunctuated. It is likely that the passage should read: "...when it is not adopted. In North America, the flesh of the buffalo...".
The six column table Table of Altitudes on p. 742 has been reconfigured to four columns to limit its width. As in the original, the final values of each pair of columns is repeated in the first row of the second pair, etc. This was done to facilitate its use according to the instructions that follow it.
The very wide table of gold quality around the world on p. 811 et seq. has been reformated to fit the size constraints of this version.
In the Index, the major topic was repeated on each column or page break. These have been removed, and the punctuation and capitalization regularized. One lapse in the alphabetic sort order was corrected. A semi-colon separator is used twice, with the two items on the same line. These are retained.
The hyphen in compound words which appeared on a line break has been removed if that form is most common elsewhere in the text.
The following list describes any obvious printer's errors that were detected, and the resolution of each.
p. 28 in cases w[h]ere the land intervenes Added.
p. 63 ar[r]angement Added.
p. 154 the sponging bath would carry 190lb.["] Added.
p. 215 though many other varieties may be used[)] Removed.
p. 256 ["]Fig. 22. Beryl Added.
p. 457 the traces are of rope chain or leather _sic_
p. 486 Eg[py/yp]t Transposed.
p. 527 _Mauri[l/t]ia flexuosa_ Corrected.
p. 642 mar[sk/ks]man Transposed.
p. 653 testacles _sic_
p. 660 indulg[o/e] Corrected.
p. 705 or will you be shot?["] Added. take the flogging offhand.["] Added. the singing of it.["] Added.
p. 716 transportat[i]on Added.
p. 725 Veneti[a]n Added.
p. 744 Dr. Living[s]tone's Added.
p. 784 When fat is to [be] stored up Added.