African Nature Notes and Reminiscences - Frederick Courteney Selous

INDEX

Abbot, Mr., donkey waggon service in Transvaal, established by, [153]
Addo bush, Cape Colony, wild animals in the, [135];
buffaloes in, [137]
African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, by Baldwin, [185]
Alaska, colouring of the wild animals of, in winter, [11]
Amatongaland, the author's journey to, [222];
inyalas found in, [223]
Andersson, C. J., his opinion on buffaloes and tse-tse flies, [161];
his opinion on the Keitloa rhinoceros, [183];
on the black rhinoceros, [184]
Angas, Douglas, the inyala first described by, [222];
his further description of the inyala, [243]
Angwa river, in Southern Rhodesia, a few rhinoceroses left near, [131]
Animals, wild, colour of, [xiii], [1] f.;
the author's opinion on the colour of, [4] ff.;
different colouring of, in the same regions, [12];
senses used by, when hunting, [14];
influence of surroundings on the coloration of, [39];
restlessness of, [19], [42];
collected in the Dett valley, [133];
African, unharmed by the tse-tse fly's biting, [173]
Antelope, colour of an, [23], [29];
size of ears in African, [30];
difference between male and female, [33].
See Blesbok, Bontebok, Duiker, Gemsbuck, Impala, Inyala, Koodoo, Situtunga, Steinbuck, Tsessebe, Reedbuck
Ant-heaps, common in South Africa, [25]
Arms of Bushmen, [341]
Arnot, F. S., his description of the death of an elephant killed by lions, [65]
Arrows, poisoned, formerly used by Bushmen when hunting lions, [94];
formerly the only arms of Bushmen, [329]
Baines, Thomas, and the tse-tse flies in the Limpopo valley, 1871, recorded in his book Gold Regions of South-East Africa, [151]
Bakalahari tribes, Dr. Livingstone on the, [339]
Baldwin, African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, by, [184];
and the inyala, 1854, [223]
Bambaleli, Enduna of Bulawayo, courage of, when fighting lions, [94]
Bantu, an African race, [334];
characteristics of the, [338]
Barbary sheep. See Sheep
Baringo, Lake, miraculous escape of Mr. Eastwood near, [199]
Barking of wild dogs, [120]
Barotse country, tse-tse flies in, [159]
Batauwana, the, tribe at Lake N'gami, [161]
Bechwana, a Bantu tribe of South Africa, [339]
Bechwanaland Protectorate, ant-heaps common in, [25];
inhabited by Bushmen, [330]
Bellowing, a dying buffalo's, [142]
Big Game Shooting of the Badminton Library, [198]
Birds, Darwin's opinion of the colour of, [3];
ravens not Arctic, [42] n.;
tick-, warning rhinoceroses, [189]
Bite of a lion, poisonous nature of the, [49], [71], [263];
of a tse-tse fly, [175]
Blaauwbok, extinct in South Africa, [130]
Bleek, Dr., on the languages spoken in South Africa, [332];
on the language of the dwarfish Bushmen, [336]
Blesbok, description of a, [37];
mistaken for bonteboks, [38];
considered as a faded bontebok, [40]
Boer States, The, by Professor Keane, [331]
Bontebok, description of a, [36];
blesbok mistaken for, [38]
Borili, a variety of rhinoceros, [183]
Botletlie river, buffaloes and tse-tse flies plentiful on the, 1878, [153]
Bradshaw, Dr. B. F., on tse-tse flies, [155], [160]
Bruce, Lieutenant-Colonel, in Zululand, his remarks on the tse-tse fly, [160]
Bryden, H. A., on the giraffe's absence of voice, [211]
Buffalo, Cape, scarcity of the, [131];
plentiful in 1873, [132];
divers opinions on the dangers of hunting the, [137];
description of a, [145]
Buffaloes, coloration of, [43];
hunted by wild dogs, [220];
where still found, [136];
numbers of, killed by the author, [138];
ways of hunted and wounded, [140];
colour of their calves, [145];
elephants' courtesy towards, [147];
and tse-tse flies, [149];
destruction of, 1872, [152];
feeding in herds, [303]
Bulawayo, in Matabeleland, [80];
Enduna of, a dignity in Matabeleland, [94]
Burchell's zebra. See Zebras
Bushbuck, coloration of, [31];
male, darker than female, [33];
scarce where inyalas are plentiful, [248]
Bushmen, keen sight of, [19];
lions killed with poisoned arrows by, [94];
description of, 1872, [329];
language of, [333], [335];
pigmy, [337];
mode of life of, [340];
privations suffered by, [342];
character of, [344];
affectionate towards their children, [347];
only primitive race in South Africa, [348]
Bush-pigs, [306]
Butterflies, African, [7]
Buzi river, [225]
Bystander, the, on the giraffe, [28]
Campbell, John, missionary in Southern Bechwanaland, 1845, [136]
Cape Colony, bushbucks found in, [31]
Caravans charged by rhinoceroses, [193]
Caribou, colouring of the, [9], [11];
unconscious of human beings' presence, [16]
Cattle, demeanour of, in the proximity of lions, [95];
"God's cattle," native name of buffaloes, [146];
"fly-stuck," [160];
symptoms of "fly-stuck," [171];
sometimes recover from the sting of the tse-tse fly, [172];
sufferings of, in hot weather, in the desert of South Africa, [315];
instinct of, after water, [322]
Chapman, his opinion on the keitloa rhinoceros, [183]
Chetahs, curious running and crouching of, [125] ff.;
swiftness of Indian, [128]
Chobi river, bushbucks found near, [32];
Collison hunting buffaloes near the, [143];
buffaloes plentiful near, [145];
tse-tse flies along the, [154], [157];
free from tse-tse flies, [165]
Christmas, heat in South Africa at the time of, [314]
Classification of lions, [78]
Clothing of a South-African hunter, [139]
Coal-mine at Wankies, [163]
Coke's hartebeest. See Hartebeest
Colesberg, in Cape Colony, [81]
Collison, H. C., and the wild dogs, [123];
hunting buffaloes, 1879, at Tlakani, [313]
Colour of wild animals, [xiii], [xvi], [1] f.;
the author's opinion on the, [4];
Wallace's opinion on the, [9];
different, in the same regions, [12];
of lions' eyes, [73];
of buffalo calves, [145]
Columbia, Northern British, [11]
Coolies, Uganda Railway, killed by man-eaters, [49]
Cooper, Frank, and the chetah, [127]
Costello, Mr., trap made by, to catch a man-eater, [52]
Cougar, President Roosevelt's experience when hunting a, [xvii]
Crocodiles, rhinoceros killed by, [201]
Cross, Alfred, his adventure with a lion, [45]
Cubs, differences between lions', [77];
usual number of a lioness's, [87];
chetah, reared by a she-dog, [129]
Cumming, Gordon, his book on African hunting, [47];
on the black rhinoceros, [183], [194]
Daka, [154]
Damaraland, Andersson hunting in, [184]
Darwin, his opinion on the coloration of birds, [3]
Darwin, Mount, buffaloes near, [135]
Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, on the fossil lions, [82]
Dawnay, Hon. Guy, killed by a buffalo, [140]
Dawson, James, and the wild dogs, [123]
De Beers Compound at Kimberley, [104]
Denukani, town built by the Batauwana, [161]
Desiccation of South Africa, [136]
Dett, swampy valley south-east of Victoria Falls, [132];
wild animals collected in, [133]
Dick, Mangwato boy, Collison's after-rider, [317]
Dogs, wild, hunting buffaloes, [120];
no enemy to man, [122];
swiftness of, [123];
curious experiences with, [123] f.
Donkey waggon service in Transvaal, [153].
Dorehill, George, and the giraffes, [215];
his gun and the author's adventure with the two lions, [278]
Drake, Fred, at Shoshong, [325];
his kindness to the author, [326]
Dress of a South-African hunter, [139];
of Bushmen, women, and girls, [340]
Drummond, Hon. W. H., The Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa by, his description of the inyala, [224]
Duiker, a small antelope, [16]
Dust, sufferings caused to cattle by, [315]
Dwarsberg, in Transvaal, [331]
Ears, size of, in African antelopes, [30]
Eastwood, B., wounded by a black rhinoceros, [199]
Edixhoven, Mr., his kindness to the author, [229], [253]
Egg, ostrich, found by Bushmen, [343]
Eland, description of an, [254]
Elephants, and lions, [64];
example of their courtesy towards buffaloes, [147];
drinking at Sikumi river, [271]
Elephants' Haunts, by Captain Faulkner, [227]
Elliott, Rev. W. A., at Umshlangeni, the author's experience when staying with, 1882, [176]
Elmenteita, in British East Africa, [5];
zebras near, [21]
Enduna, a dignity in Matabeleland, [94]
Engelbreght, Michael, Boer hunter, [17]
story told by, [64]
Europe, lions common in, at the time of Herodotus, [83]
Eyes, colour of a lion's, [73]
Eyesight, necessity of a trained, for hunters, [17];
results of training of, [19]
Falls, Victoria, [154];
the "Dett" valley south-east of, [132]
Farm devastated by a lioness in Mashunaland, [68]
Faulkner, Capt., inyala shot by, near Cape Maclear, 1866, [227]
Field, the, Sir Alfred Sharpe's opinion on the tse-tse fly published in, [150]
Fleischmann, Max C., his letter to President Roosevelt, 1907, [201]
Flies. See Tse-tse fly
Food, favourite, of lions, [64];
of hyænas, [103];
of Bushmen, [341]
"Foreword" by President Roosevelt, [xi]-[xix]
Fortnightly Review, [54]
Fountaine, A., and the chetah, [127]
Fox, Arctic, hunting of the, [10];
white coat of an, [41]
Gazelle, Thomson's, coloration of, [13];
markings of, [23]
Gemsbuck, description of the, [256] f.:
the author's hunt after, [258], [265], [267], [287];
nature of the, [268]
Giraffe, shape and coloration of a, [26];
the Somali, [28];
seldom killed by lions, [64];
stateliness of the, [205];
a little-drinking animal, [209];
a voiceless animal, [211];
some adventures of the author with, [213], [215];
strong smell of the, [216];
attacked by two leopards, [219];
calves, [221]
Glossina morsitans. See Tse-tse fly
Goats, African, unaffected by tse-tse fly disease, [173]
Gold found in the Transvaal, [152];
in Witwaters Rand, [325]
Gold Regions of South-East Africa, The, by Mr. Thomas Baines, [151]
Gould, his kindness to the author, [229]
Grant's zebra. See Zebra
Great and Small Game of Africa, published by Rowland Ward, [38];
Mr. Vaughan Kirby's contribution to the, [195];
Mr. A. H. Neumann on the giraffe in the, [218]
Griqualand, [337]
Grogan and Sharpe, Messrs., East-African lion brought to England by, [83]
Gugawi, the Amatonga headman, [240]
Guinea-fowls, numerous on the Usutu river, [249]
Gwai river, in Matabeleland, [102];
tse-tse flies near, 1873, [163]
Hanyani river, in Mashunaland, [15];
farm devastated by a lioness near, [68]
Hare, Polar, white winter coat of, [41]
Harris, Sir Cornwallis, and the mistake concerning bonteboks and blesboks, [38];
his drawings of lions, [81];
his hunting expedition in South Africa, 1836-37, [180]
Harrison, Col. J. J., quotation from, concerning the Somali giraffe, [28]
Hartebeest, coloration of a, [24];
mixed species of, [35];
hybrid hartebeest shot by Cornelis van Rooyen, [36]
Hartley Hills, in Mashunaland, [166]
Hayes-Sadler, Sir James, his report on black rhinoceroses, [199]
Hearing, keen sense of, in antelopes, [30];
keenness of, of rhinoceroses, [189]
Heart and liver, choice pieces of meat in a wild animal, [115];
of elephant, as food, [133]
Herodotus, lions common in Europe at the time of, [83]
Hide of the giraffe, [217]
Hippopotamuses, [306]
Horns, length of gemsbucks', [267];
commercial value of rhinoceroses', [188]
Horse, bitten by a lion, [263];
meaning of a "salted," [283] n.
Hottentots, language of, [332]
Howl of the hyæna, [115];
of the wild dog, [121]
Huebner, Mr., and the death of Mr. Ryall, [50]
Hunter's Wanderings, A, published in 1881, [187]
Hyæna, spotted, character of the, [98];
example of the audacity of the, [99] f.;
preferred food of the, [103];
old slaves and witches given to, [104];
strength of the jaws of, [107];
strength of, [108];
courage of, [110];
bowl of, [115];
flesh of, a choice meat, [117];
whelps of, [118]
Impala antelope, killed by wild dogs, [121]
Inyala, coloration of, [31];
a variety of antelope, [222];
description of the, [223], [227];
habitat of, [226];
shot near Cape Maclear, 1866, [227];
doe and male shot by the author, [242]
Jackson, F. J., C.B., his article "The Lion," on the trouping of lions, [77];
his opinion on rhinoceroses, [198]
Jackson's hartebeest. See Hartebeest
Jacobs, Petrus, Boer hunter, [179]
James, F. L., giraffe killed by, [217]
Jameson, J. A., and the chetah, [127]
Jantje, Black, elephant hunter, and the lion, [54];
his account of a Bushman killed by a lion, [71]
Jerdon, Mammals of India by, [128]
Johnston, Sir H. H., on the habitat of the inyala, [226]
Jomani river, [103]
"Kattea," name of pigmy Bushmen, mentioned by Prof. Keane, [331]
Kazungula, free from tse-tse flies in 1885, [157], [159]
Keane, Prof., The Boer States by, [331]
Keitloa, a variety of rhinoceros, [183]
Khama, his people's liking for hyæna meat, [117];
the author's help to his people, [144];
Tinkarn, one of his chiefs, [312];
praise of his government, [339]
Kimberley, De Beers Compound at, [104]
Kingsley, hunting experience of, with a lioness, [276]
Kirby, Vaughan, his account of a hyæna, [118];
contribution of, to Great and Small Game of Africa, [195]
Kirk, Sir John, at Linyanti, with Dr. Livingstone, 1861, [164]
Kirton, George, his account of a black rhinoceros, 1868, [186]
Klabala, safe arrival of the author's party at, 1879, [327]
Klas Lucas, Korana chief, [329], [334]
Knight-Bruce, Bishop, his donkeys killed by tse-tse fly bites, [172]
Knox, Col., and his Soudanese lion, [84]
Knysna forest in Cape Colony, [135]
Koch, Dr., and the epidemic of rinderpest, [137]
Koodoo, description of a, [30];
keen sense of hearing of the, [30];
hunted by wild dogs, [121]
Koranas, language of the, [336]
Languages spoken in South Africa, [332], [333]
Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa, The, by Hon. W. H, Drummond, [224]
Lebombo range, buffaloes killed off below the, [153]
Leopards, hunters of antelopes, [33];
young giraffe hunted by, [219]
Leshuma, water-hole at, [122];
no tse-tse flies near, [157]
Le Vaillant, buffaloes seen by, on the Orange river, 1783, [136]
Libèbè's, road from Denukani to, [162]
Limpopo valley, Burchell's zebras plentiful in, [21];
tse-tse flies in, 1871, [152], [166]
Linquasi river, [112]
Linyanti, chief town of the Makololo, [164]
Lion, demeanour of a watching, [17];
hunting strategy of the, [20], [60], [69];
African names of the, [45];
his usual way of catching his prey, [48], [70];
poisonous nature of his bite, [49], [71], [263];
death of Mr. Ryall, killed by a man-eater, [50];
the Majili man-eater, [54]-[59];
his favourite food, [64];
his manner of entering a cattle kraal, [68];
colour of his eyes, [73];
likeness of a stalking, to a stalking cat, [75];
mane of a, [78];
length of hair of a, [80];
first evolved in a cold climate, [83];
his cleverness as a butcher, [85];
his roar, [89]
"Lion, The," Jackson's article on the trouping of lions, [77]
Lions, Colonel Patterson and the man-eaters, [49];
classification of, [78];
killed with poisoned arrows by Bushmen, [94];
the author's ill-luck with the two, [279] f.;
last of the thirty-one killed by the author, [307] ff.
Livingstone, Dr., his opinion on man-eaters, [60];
his visit to Sebitwane, 1853, [163];
his remarks on the tse-tse fly, [167];
on the Bushmen, [338]
Livingstone search expedition, commanded by Lieutenant Young, 1866, [227]
Lo Bengula, his account of the tse-tse fly's disappearance, [163];
King of the Matabele, [270]
Locusts in Matuta, [231];
in South Central Africa, 1890, [234]
Lo Magondi's kraal, [48]
Longman, Zulu guide of the author, [233]
Lotchi, head Enduna of Induba, convicted of witchcraft, [105]
Lourenço Marques, Delagoa Bay, [253]
Lydekker, R., his classification of lions, [78]
Mababi plain, [78];
river, [136]
Machabi river, an overflow from the Okavango, [136]
Mackinnon, Dr., and the troop of lions, [77]
Maclear, Cape, inyala shot near, by Capt. Faulkner, 1866, [227]
Macloutsie river, buffaloes plentiful along the, [152]
Maghaliquain river, game found along the, 1886, [152]
Majili river, a tributary of the Zambesi, [54]
Makari-kari, rock salt found at, [264]
Makololo, Mission sent to, [164]
Mammals of India, by Jerdon, on hunting chetahs, [128]
Mandy, Frank, and the old slave given to the hyænas, [104]
Man-Eaters of Tsavo, The, by Colonel Patterson, [49]
Manes, lions', differences between, [78]
Manicaland, rock-paintings in, [336]
Maputa river, formed by the Pongolo and the Usutu, [230]
Marico river, [136]
Masarwa, or Maseroa, name given by Khama's people to Bushmen, [330]
Mashunaland, troubles caused by lions in, 1890, [67];
rock-paintings in, [336]
Matabele, courage of the, in attacking lions, [93];
Umziligazi, founder of the nation, [162]
Matabeleland, fate of witches in, [107];
Lo Bengula, King of, [270]
Matuta, locusts in, [231]
Meat, hyæna flesh considered a choice, by Khama's people, [117]
Melons, water-, known to wild animals and used instead of water, [210]
Miller, Mr., hunting buffaloes near the Chobi, 1879, [143];
travelling with the author from Tlakani, [313], [317]
Mine, coal-, at Wankies, [163]
Mission sent to Makololo, fate of the, [164]
Missionary Travels, by Dr. Livingstone, [338]
Moffat, Dr. Robert, on the languages spoken in South African, [332]
Molipololi, hunters from, [208]
Molopo river, buffaloes found near the, [136]
Moose, colouring of, in winter, [11];
keen sense of hearing of the, [31]
Mossel Bay, buffaloes found at, [136]
Moufflon of Sardinia, colour of, [7]
Museum, Natural History, at South Kensington, hybrid antelope at, [36];
giraffe at, [218];
gemsbuck at, [261]
Mweru, Lake, [65]
Nakuru, Lake, [5];
zebras near, [21]
Nansen, raven not noticed by, in the Arctic regions, [42] n.
Napier, David, his experience with a black rhinoceros, [187]
Natal, bushbucks found in, [31]
Ndorobos, their way of killing rhinoceroses, [197]
Neumann, A. H,, quotation from, on rhinoceroses, [196];
on the giraffe's absence of voice, [211];
on the giraffe, [218]
Neumann's hartebeest. See Hartebeest
N'gami, Lake, the Batauwana tribe at, [161]
Notwani river, [136]
Nyasa, Lake, Captain Faulkner's journey to, [227]
Nyasaland, skins sent from, by Sir Alfred Sharpe, [226]
Okavango river, disappearance of buffaloes and tse-tse flies on the, [161]
Orange river, blesboks found near the, [38];
buffaloes found near the, [136]
Oribis, small antelope, [16]
Oswell, William Cotton, buffaloes found by, near the Molopo, [136];
on the tse-tse flies in Northern Transvaal, 1845, [151];
his visit to Sebitwane, 1853, [163];
his rhinoceros hunting, 1844, 1853, [182];
on the borili rhinoceros, [183];
and the chetah, [201]
Ovampoland, Andersson hunting in, [184]
Ox, musk, colouring of the, [9];
changeless coat of the, [41]
Paintings, rock-, in Mashunaland and Manicaland, [336]
Palapye, hunters from, [208]
Pandamatenka, [154]
Panyami river, [135]
Parenti, Mr., and Mr. Ryall's death, [50]
Patterson, Colonel, his experiences with two man-eaters, [49]
Pembroke Castle, the, author's specimens sent over on, [253]
Pest. See Rinderpest
Philips, G. A., number of hyænas poisoned with strychnine in one night by, [107]
Pigmy Bushmen, [337]
Pigs, immunity of, from tse-tse fly disease, [173]
Pongolo river, inyalas near, [225]
Prongbuck of North America, the "crysanthemum" of the, [xvi]
Pungwe river, lions with manes found near the, [81];
abundant game in the district of the, [88]
Quagga, extinct in South Africa, [130]
Quito river. See Chobi
Ramokwebani river, [82]
Raven, not an Arctic bird, [42] n.
Reedbuck, small antelope [16];
killed by the author, [235]
Reid, Percy, his kindness to an old hyæna, [110];
letter from, concerning tse-tse flies, [157]
Restlessness of wild animals, [19], [42]
Revue river, [96];
tse-tse flies on the, 1891, [173]
Rhinoceros, coming to drink, [113];
hyænas and the, [114];
calf killed by hyænas, [116];
white, driven away from the author's camp, [272];
wonderful escape of a black, [273]
Rhinoceroses, black and white, scarcity of the, [131], [179];
plentiful in 1873, [132];
Sir Corwallis Harris and the, 1836, [182];
Mr. Oswell's hunting the, [182];
borili and keitloa, [183];
differences between the white and the black, [185];
commercial value of horns of, increased in c. 1880, [188];
supposed charges of, [190];
explanation of the charges of, [192];
killed by crocodiles, [201]
Rhodesia, North-Western, scarcity of rhinoceroses in, [195]
Rhodesia, Southern, countries included in, [293]
Richardson, Sir Cornwallis Harris's companion in his hunting expedition in South Africa, 1836, [180]
Rinderpest, in 1896, [30], [135];
Dr. Koch and the epidemic of, [137]
Roads, waggon, through fly-infested countries, [153] f.
Roaring of lions, [89]
Rocks. See Paintings
Roosevelt, President, "Foreword" by, [xi]-[xix];
letter from, to the author, 1907, [200]
Rooyen, Cornelis van, hybrid hartebeest shot by, [36];
and the chase of the wild dogs, [123];
and the chetahs, [126]
Rothschild, Hon. Walter, giraffe of, in the Tring Museum, [218]
Ryall, C. H., killed by a man-eater, [50]
Sabi river, chetah cubs found near, [129];
inyalas found near, [225]
St. Lucia Bay, [166];
inyalas near, [225]
Salisbury, capital of Mashunaland, [48]
Salt, rock, found at Makari-kari, [264]
Sanyati river, [135]
Scent, carnivorous animals hunting by, [14], [18];
keenness of rhinoceros's, [189];
the giraffe's keenness of, [212]
Schweinitz, Count von, and the gemsbuck, [290]
Sclater, Dr., inyala skin sent to, by Sir Alfred Sharpe, 1891, [226]
Sebakwe river, in Mashunaland, [123]
Sebitwane, chief of the Makololo, [162];
Dr. Livingstone's visit to, 1853, [163]
Sekeletu, Sebitwane's son, Dr. Livingstone's visit to, 1861, [164]
Sell, Mr., travelling with the author from Tlakani, [313]
"Selous," John, description of, [333];
his native language, [334]
Shangani river, tse-tse flies at the, 1873, [163]
Sharpe. See Grogan and Sharpe
Sharpe, Sir Alfred, his opinions on the tse-tse fly, published in the Field, [150];
inyala skin sent to Dr. Sclater by, 1891, [226]
Shashi river, buffaloes plentiful near the, [152]
Sheep, Barbary, colour of, [6]
Shoshong, chief town of Khama's people, [324];
the author at, [325]
Sight, small use of, in carnivorous animals, [14], [18];
dulness of, of rhinoceroses, [189];
strong, of the giraffe, [206];
keen, of the gemsbuck, [257];
keen, of vultures, [260]
Sikumi river, elephants drinking at, [271]
Situtunga, coloration of, [31], [33]
Smell, strong, of zebras, [22];
of lions, disagreeable to domestic animals, [97];
of hyænas, [116];
of giraffes, [216]
Steinbuck, small antelope, [16]
Stigand, Capt., injured by a black rhinoceros, [195]
Stockade made by natives, as a defence against lions, [53]
Sungwe, Lake, [89]
Surroundings, influence of, on the coloured coats of animals, [39]
Swahilis, hunting rhinoceroses, [197]
Swart, Martinus, Boer hunter, [179]
Symptoms of the disease caused by tse-tse fly bites, [171]
Tamalakan river, [136];
tse-tse flies numerous near the, in 1853, [153]
Tana river, wild animals in the, [201]
Tanganyika, Lake, [66]
Tati, river, [82]
Teale, death of, killed by a lion in Mashunaland, [67]
Tembe river, inyalas near, [225]
Teoge. See Okavango
Thamma-Setjie, on the road to Zambesi, [192]
Thomson's gazelle. See Gazelle
Tinkarn, head of Khama's people, his preference for hyæna meat, [117];
one of Khama's chiefs, [312];
travelling with the author, [313];
his influence over Bushmen, [335]
Tlakani, journey of the author and his friends from, to Klabala, Christmas 1879, [313]-[327]
Transvaal, Northern, infested by tse-tse flies, 1845, [151];
gold found in, [152]
Trap, made by Mr. Costello, to catch a man-eater, [52];
hyæna breaking a large iron trap, [108]
Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, [332]
Tring Museum, giraffe at, [218]
Tripanosomes, tse-tse fly blood parasites, [171]
Truscott, Jim, trader in Shoshong, [325]
Tsessebes, hunting and shooting, [284] f.
Tse-tse flies, connection between buffaloes and, [149];
Sir Alfred Sharpe on the, [150];
disappearance of the, [151] f., [156];
causes of the increase of, [159];
dangers of the sting of, to cattle, [161];
its conditions of existence, [166];
Dr. Livingstone's remarks on, [167];
bite of, [170];
when most troublesome, [174];
curious effect of the bites of, [176]
Tubers, water-conserving, known to natives and wild animals, [209]
Uganda Railway, coolies killed by man-eaters, [49]
Umay river, in Matabeleland, [53]
Umfuli river, in Mashunaland, [26]
Umsengaisi river, [135]
Umshlangeni, Mission Station at, [176]
Umziligazi, father of Lo Bengula, [94];
founder of the Matabele nation, [162]
Umzingwani river, [80]
Umzweswe river, tse-tse flies near the, [168]
Ungwesi river, [55]
Usutu river, inyalas plentiful near the, [247];
guinea-fowls on the, [249]
Vaal river, [40]
Vaalpens, meaning of, [331]
Viljoen, Jan, Boer hunter, [179]
Vultures, strong sight of, [260]
Walfisch Bay, [268]
Wall, Henry, elephant hunter, and the lion, [54]
Wallace, Alfred Russel, quotation from, on the colour of wild animals, [2];
on the colour of wild animals, [9], [34]
Wankies, coal-mine at, [163]
Ward, Rowland, Great and Small Game of Africa, published by, [38];
and a giraffe killed by the author, [217]
Wart-hogs, [306]
Water, vegetable substitute for, [209];
giraffes said to be independent of, for months at a time, [211];
sufferings caused by scarcity of, [315] f.;
travelling after, [318] f.;
instinct of cattle after, [322]
Waterberg, in Northern Transvaal, [151]
Waterbucks, [305]
Westbeech, George, his opinion on the disappearance of the tse-tse fly, [158]
Whelps of hyænas, [118]
Wild Beasts and Their Ways, by Samuel Baker, [201]
Winter, colouring of wild animals in, [11], [41]
Wissels, Mr., the author's journey with, to Amatongaland, 1896, [229], [251]
Witchcraft, punishment of, in Africa, [105];
trials for, in Matabeleland, [107]
Witwaters Rand, gold found in, [325]
Women used as porters in Amatongaland, [233]
Wood, George, hunting experience of, [187]
Young, Lieutenant, the Livingstone search expedition commanded by, 1866, [227]
Yukon Territory, colouring of the wild animals of, in winter, [11]
Zambesi river, Burchell's zebras plentiful near, [21];
bushbucks found near, [32];
tse-tse flies along the, c. 1878, [154]
Zebras, colouring of different races of, [5];
Grant's zebras, [5];
beauty of Burchell's zebra, [21];
strong smell of, [22];
friendly inquisitiveness of, [305]
Zoutpansberg, in Northern Transvaal, [151]
Zumbo, on the Zambesi, [176]

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