Specific gravities of wood.
Spectacles for snow; for seeing under water.
Speke, Captain.
Spokeshave.
Sponge, lapping up water from puddles; dew from leaves.
Spontaneous combustion.
Spoons.
Spring gun; bow.
Springes.
Squaring (right angles to lay out).
Stalking-horses and screens; stalking game.
Stars for bearings.
Starving men.
Steels for flints; steel tools; cast steel;
case-hardening.
Sticks, small, for lighting fires; for fire by rubbing; for
tenting purposes and substitutes; to bend or straighten.
Still (distilling).
Sting of scorpions and wasps.
Stirrups.
Stitches.
Stockings.
Stones, heated, to make water boil; as weapons of defence; as
marks by roadside; to chisel marks upon.
Stool.
Stoppers.
Stores, lists of; store-keeping.
Strait-waistcoat.
Straw, to work; straw walls.
Stretchers.
String.
Strychnine.
Stuffy bedding.
Sturt, Captain.
Sulphur matches; for gun-powder.
Sunrise and sunset, diagram.
Sun signals; solar bearings.
Surveying Instruments.
Swag.
Swamps.
Swimming--Rate of swimming; learning to swim; to support
those who cannot swim; landing through breakers; floats;
African swimming ferry; swimming with parcels; with horses;
taking a wagon across a river; water spectaacles;--Swimming with
carcass of game; with sheath knife.
Swivels for tether ropes.
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