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)Vatch, to use as a compass. —Hold the watch flat in the hand with the 
hour mark then indicated at the time of day pointed directly at the sun. The 
point half way between that hour mark and XII will be opposite to due south in the 
sky. For example, supposing it is four o’clock in the afternoon, hold the watch 
so that IV points straight at the sun, the mark II will indicate due south. 
Or suppose it is 10 o’clock in the morning, hold the watch as before till X points 
straight at the sun ; XI will point due south. 
Wounds , bites or clawings by Carnivora . “ W” some time ago, wrote to 
The Pioneer the following excellent letter :— 
I always had several boxes or dressing handy, prepared antiseptically in 
the following way. Each box was made up as follows:—(1) A tin box with a 
well fitting lid, several inches square or in diameter—a half pound tobacco tin 
box answers very well; (2) half an ounce of idoform ; (3) four ounces of boric acid 
(boracic acid); (4) two bandages, one, four feet long and two inches wide, the 
other half that length and breadth; (5) a quarter of a pound of antiseptic wood 
wool; (6) a small roll of adhesive plaster on linen ; and (7) a small tin caster with 
a moveable top, similar in size and shape to the salt and pepper castors one 
carries into camp. (This can be made in the bazaar for a few pice). Get your 
box well cleaned and dried, put the iodoform loose into it, then pack with the 
bandages, plaster, caster, and boric acid. The caster should first be filled with 
