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Shifts and Expedients 



OF 



CAMP LIFE, TKAVEL, and EXPLORATION. 



BY 



W. B. LORD AND T. BAINES. 



(Royal Artillery.) (F.R.GJ3.) 



CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Chap. 



I. Outfit to take abroad. 

 II. Boats, Baf ts,and Makeshift Floats 

 HI. Working in Metal. 

 IV. Huts and Houses. 

 V. Extempore Bridges and Make- 

 shifts for Crossing Bivers and 

 Ba vines. 



VI. Timber and its Utilisation. 

 VII. Sledges and Sledge Travelling. 

 Vni. Boots, Shoes, and Sandals. 



.Fish and Amphibious Animals. 

 X VI. Poisoned Weapons, Arrows, 



Spears, Ac. 

 XVII. Tracking, Hunting, and Trap- 



XVIIL Palanquins, Stretchers, Ambu- 

 lances, Ac. 



XIX. On Sketching and Painting 

 under the Ordinary Difficul- 

 ties of Travel. 



XX. The Estimation of Distances, 



IX. Waggons and other Wheeled and Hints on Field Observing. 



Vehicles. XXL Hints to Explorers on Collect- 



X. Harness and Pack Animals. 

 XI. Camels. 



ing and Preserving Objects 

 of Natural History. 



Xn. Cattle Marking. XXII. Bopes and Twines. 



XIII. Water, and the Sap of Plants. XXIII. Bush Veterinary Surgery and 

 XlV.-Camp Cookery. Medicine. 



Extract from the INTRODUCTION. 



Like two voyagers returned from a long cruise in far-off seas, we throw together 

 our joint gleanings in many lands. These do not consist of jewels, gems, gold, or 

 furs ; no piles of costly merchandise do we lay at the reader's feet as offerings from 

 distant climes, but simply the experiences of two roving Englishmen who have 

 " roughed it." By those who have to pass through a campaign, travel wild 

 countries, or explore little known regions, shifts must be made, and expedients of 

 many kinds had recourse to, of which the inexperienced in such matters would but 



little dream In our travels and adventures we have not been associated, the 



paths trodden by us being widely separated. Whilst one was exploring the wilds 

 of North Australia, the other was dwelling in a canvas-covered nole in the earth 

 before Sebastopol. The scenes change ; Southern and Tropical Africa is visited 

 by the late Australian traveller, whilst the Crimea, with its rugged hills and wild 

 ravines, is exchanged for the jungles of Central India by the other. 



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