THE ART OF TRAVEL

Preparatory Enquiries
Organising an Expedition
Outfit
Medicine
Surveying Instruments
Memoranda and Log-Books
Measurements
Climbing and Mountaineering
Cattle
Harness
Carriages
Swimming
Rafts and Boats
Fords and Bridges
Clothing
Bedding
Bivouac
Huts
Sleeping-Bags
Tents
Furniture
Fire
Food
Water for Drinking
Guns and Rifles
Gun-fittings and Ammunition
Shooting, hints on
Game, other means of capturing
Fishing
Signals
Bearings by Compass, Sun, etc. 
Marks by the wayside
Way, to find
Caches and Depots
Savages, Management of
Hostilities
Mechanical Appliances
Knots
Writing Materials
Timber
Metals
Leather
Cords, String, and Thread
Membrane, Sinew, and Horn
Pottery
Candles and Lamps
Conclusion of the Journey

PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.

This Edition does not differ materially from the fourth.  I have incorporated some new material, including Colomb and Bolton’s flashing signals, but in other respects the Work is little altered.  I therefore reprint the

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

In publishing a fourth Edition of the ‘Art of Travel,’ it is well that I should preface it with a few words of explanation on the origin and intention of the Book and on the difference between this and former Editions.

The idea of the work occurred to me when exploring South-western Africa in 1850-51.  I felt acutely at that time the impossibility of obtaining sufficient information on the subjects of which it treats; for though the natives of that country taught me a great deal, it was obvious that their acquaintance with bush lore was exceedingly partial and limited.  Then remembering how the traditional maxims and methods of travelling in each country differ from those of others, and how every traveller discovers some useful contrivances for himself, it appeared to me, that I should do welcome service to all who have to rough it—­whether explorers, emigrants, missionaries or soldiers,*—­by collecting the scattered experiences of many such persons in various circumstances, collating them, examining into their principles, and deducing from them what might fairly be called an “Art of Travel.”  To this end, on my return home, I searched through a vast number of geographical works, I sought information from numerous travellers of distinction and I made a point of re-testing, in every needful case, what I had read or learned by hearsay.

[Footnote] * “. . . the soldier should be taught all such practical expedients and their philosophy, as are laid down in Mr. Galton’s useful little book . . . “—­’Minute by the late Sir James Outram on Army Management.’  Parliamentary Return, of May 240, p. 159.