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Shifts and Expedients 



OF 



CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL, and EXPLORATION, 



W. B. LOKD AND T. BAINES. 



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



CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Chap. 



I._0utflt to take abroad. 

 II. Boats, Eaf ts,and Makeshift Floats 

 III. Working in Metal. 

 IV. Huts and Houses. 



XV. Fish and Amphibious Annuals. 

 XVI. Poisoned Weapons, Arrows, 



Spears, <fec. 



XVII. Tracking, Hunting, and Trap- 

 sing. 



V. Extempore Bridges and Make- ! XVIII. Palanquins, Stretchers, Ambu- 

 shifts for Crossing Rivers and lances, &c. 



Ravines. XIX. On Sketching and Painting 



VI. Timber and its Utilisation. under the Ordinary Difflcul- 



VII. Sledges and Sledge Travelling, j ties of Travel. 



VIII. Boots, Shoes, and Sandals. XX. The Estimation of Distances, 



IX. Waggons and other Wheeled 



Vehicles. 



X. Harness and Pack Animals. 

 XI. Camels. 

 XII. Cattle Marking. 



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

 XIV. Camp Cookery. Medicine. 



and Hints on Field ' >bserving. 

 XXI. Hints to Explorers on Collect- 

 ing and Preserving Objects 

 of Natural History. 

 XXII. Ropes and Twines. 



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 hole in the earth 

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

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

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



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