Poncho.
Portable food.
Porters for instruments; of provisions for depots.
Pottery--Glaze for; clay; pots for stores and caches; Pot for cooking;
to mend; substitute for; baking in; distilling from.
Powder (see "Gunpowder").
Prairie on fire.
Precautions against poison; malaria; unwholesome water; thieves.
Preparatory Inquiries--Qualifications for a traveller; dangers of
travel; advantages; to obtain information; conditions of failure
and success; the leader; servants.
Presents for savages.
Preserving food.
Pricker for gun-nipples.
Prisoners, to secure; punishment.
Pulley.
Pump.
Puna (effect of high mountain air).
Punishment.
Punt of hide; of tin.
Putrid water.
Pyrites.
Qualifications for a traveller.
Quicksilver, to harden lead.
Quills, to prepare; to carry letters; to hold minute specimens.
Quinine.
Radiation chill.
Rae, Dr.
Rafts and boats--Rafts of wood; of bamboo; Boating power of
woods; burning down trees; rafts of reeds; of hide;
of gourds (Makara); rude boats; sailing; log canoe; of
three planks; inflatable indi-rubber; of basket; of reed of
fibre; of hide; corracle and fibre; of hide; corracle and
skin punt; bark boat and canoe; tin boat; boats, well built,
of various materials; boating gear; boat building; boat
management; awning--(See also "Boats.").
Rain, to catch.
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