d. Take time to repair your clothes

d. Take time to repair your clothes. It helps to prevent insect bites and further tearing of clothes.e. Examine your surroundings carefully. Many of your needs are there. Thorns broken from bamboo or trees can be used for needles. Strips of vines can be made into thread. If you need rope, vines will do. Your food and shelter, in fact your life, may depend on your ability to make use of things that are all a round you. f. Be careful. Do not use trees and vines to pull yourself up hills as thorns, ants, scorpions, etc., will be encountered and make sores that may become infected. Use a walking stick to push aside vines and bushes. g. Poisonous reptiles and large mammals of the jungle will cause few problems. Given a chance, they will avoid you. h. If a survival kit is available most articles are self-explanatory. Some have multiple uses. The waterproof adhesive tape can be used for temporary repairs to clothing and mosquito nets as well as covering body wounds. Fish line can be used for snares. Three fish hooks, their shafts tied together with their hooks pointing out, can be used on the fish line to snare fish, crabs, etc. Head nets can be used as fish nets and snares. A fish hook fastened to a length of line, baited with fish or meat and left on the sea shore or in a field may be used to catch birds.