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Shifts and Expedients 



OF 



CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL, and EXPLORATION. 



BY 



W. B. LORD AND T. BAINES. 



(Royal Artillery.) {F.R.G.S.) 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction. 



Chap. 

 I.— Outfit to take abroad. 

 II.— Boats. Kaf ts,and Makeshift Floats 

 III.— "Working in Metal. 

 IV. — Huts and Houses. 

 V. — Extempore Bridges and Make- 

 shifts for Crossing Eivers and 

 Ravines. 

 VI. — Timber and its Utilisation. 

 VII.— Sledges and Sledge Travelling. 

 VIII. — Boots. Shoes, and Sandals. 

 IX. — Waggons and other Wheeled 



Chap. 

 XV.— Fish and Amphibious Animals. 

 XVI.— Poisoned Weapons, Arrows, 



Spears, &c. 

 XVII.— Tracking, Hunting, and Trap- 

 ping. 

 XVIII.— Palanquins, Stretchers, Ambu- 

 lances, <fec. 

 XIX.— On Sketching and Painting 

 under the Ordinary Difficul- 

 ties of Travel. 

 XX.— The Estimation of Distances, 

 and Hints on Field Observing. 

 Vehicles. j XXI.— Hints to Explorers on Collect- 



X. — Harness and Pack Animals. j ing and Preserving Objects 



XI.— Camels. | of Natural History. 



XII.— Cattle Marking. ' XXII.— Ropes and Twines. 



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

 XIV.— Camp Cookery. Medicine. 



Extract from the Introduction. 



Like two voyagers retunied 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 ex-ploring the wilds 

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

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

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

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



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