Maphartes, a Sabæan dependency, [224]
Marib, the ancient Saba and capital of the Sabæan kingdom in Arabia, [105];
ruins of elliptic temple, [177]
Marico district, Transvaal, ruins of stone huts in, [139]
Marinus of Tyre on Semitic fetichism, [194];
his vagueness of information, [224]
Mashah, a Makalanga native engaged by author, [247]; his life and adventures, ib.
Mashanani, native servant attached to author’s expedition, [[420]]278;
accompanies author to chief ’Mtoko’s country, [302]
Mashonaland, departure of expedition for, [5];
roads to, [6];
cattle disease en route, [8];
Government, [30];
interpreters, [31];
pioneers, [32];
intercourse with natives, ib.;
tribal feuds, [33];
Portuguese in, ib.;
description of country, [34];
granite hills, ib.;
native head-rests, [36];
skin-polishing, [38];
dollasses, or wooden charms, [39];
witchcraft, ib.;
domestic and other implements, [39], [40];
Zulu raids, [43];
native agriculture, ib.;
iron-smelting, [45];
female decoration, [47];
quaintness of scenery, [50];
quadrupeds diseases, [51];
‘salted horses,’ ib.;
‘drunk sickness’ among oxen, ib.;
discovery of gold, [52];
bridge-building, [53];
tree-barking, ib.;
caterpillars as food, ib.;
sleeping in the forest, [54];
forest scenery, ib.;
native game pits, [55];
beer-brewing, [57];
Kaffir language, [58];
‘trekking’ for three months, [59];
camp life and work at Zimbabwe, [60];
native gunpowder manufacture, [72];
cotton-spinning, ib.;
native war-dance, [75];
festivities and funerals, [77];
native pianos, [80];
travelling in the wilds, [84];
extraordinary block of granite near Zimbabwe, [85];
Arabian influence in, [86];
Umgabe’s kraal, [87];
direful experience of a swamp, [90];
archæology of ruined cities, [95];
ancient gold-mines, [99];
situation of the Great Zimbabwe ruins, [103];
architecture, [148];
description of temples, ib.;
religious symbolism of birds, [186];
commerce of the ancients, [204];
gold-mining, [215];
ancient gold-workings, [218];
Arabian gold-diggers, [220];
geography and ethnology of ruins, [223];
ancient output of gold, [228];
confusion in topography, [234];
Portuguese accounts of ruins, [238];
first pioneers of Chartered Company, [240];
Toroa ruins, ib.;
early Arab trading, [241];
Boer expeditions, [244];
unoccupied fertile land, [269];
scanty population, ib.;
highest point in the country, [272];
future Capital of gold-fields, [279];
planting of British flag, ib.;
the ‘Mashonaland Times and Zambesia Herald,’ [280];
government stores, ib.;
hospital huts, ib.;
native engineering skill in Mazoe valley, [288];
Mr. E. A. Maund’s lecture on ancient gold-mining in the ’Mswezwe district, [290];
eland meat, [291];
destruction of early Portuguese mission, [296];
winter in, [298];
native tattooing, [305];
native fishing, [311];
forest monotony, [315];
domestic animals, [318];
politics and religion, [326];
privations of expedition, [343];
highest inhabited spot, [354];
magnificence of country, [362];
tsetse fly, [363];
Scotch enterprise, [365];
Heany and Johnson’s pioneer work, [371];
Portuguese convicts, [373];
native bearers, ib.;
Pungwe route, [378];
fauna, [380];
proposed railway from Beira port to the interior, [386];
geography and meteorology, [389];
list of stations astronomically observed, with altitudes, [398];
progress from November 1891 to May 1893, [405].
See also Zimbabwe. [[421]]
Masoudi, El, Arabian historian, [116];
on the Sabæan temples, [148];
on ancient stone-worship in Arabia, [194];
on Zindj tribes of East Africa, [232]
Masoupa in the Ba-Ngwatetse country, [11];
native dancing and music, ib.;
heathenism, [12]
Masouvo river, and Mazoe valley, [295]