Barrels, as water vessels; in digging wells; to make filters;
as floats (see also "Gourd-floats,").
Barth, Dr.
Basket-work boats; bucket; to protect water-bags.
Bath, vapour; bath-glove.
Battues, marking beaters at.
Beach, bivouac on (see "Dateram,").
Beacons, fire and smoke.
Beads, for presents and payments; as means of counting.
Beale, Lieutenant.
Bearings by Compass, Sun, etc.--Pocket compass; bearings by
sun and stars; other signs of direction; to follow a track at
night.
Bedding--General remarks; vital heat; mattresses and their
substitutes; preparing the ground for bed; coverlets; pillows.
Bedstead.
Bees, to find hive.
Beke, Dr.
Belcher, Admiral Sir E.
Bellows.
Bells for cattle; to strings (thieves).
Belt, life; for trousers; bundle tied to.
Bengal fire.
Birds, flight of, shows water; dead game; direction of unseen
coast; Food of birds wholesome to man; rank birds, to prepare,
for eating; watchfulness of; (see "Feathers," "Quills,"
Shooting and Game).
Birdlime.
Biscuit, meat.
Bivouac--General remarks on shelter; various methods of bivouacking;
bivouac in special localities; in hostile country; in unhealthy
countries; flies at night.
Blacksmith's work (see Metals).
Black paint; lampblack.
Bladder for carrying water (see "Floats,"; Membrane).
Blakiston, Captain, R. A.
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