“If the city and the rural districts should, at all times, be exhibiting shows, and be ready and willing to excite public admiration by horse-races, regattas, &c., and by grand concerts, where comic and such like songs delight the ears of the audience: then by such emulations and amusements, not only will we find that in process of time the Colony shall be, under an All-wise Providence, one of physical improvement, but by vieing with each other in the pure sciences, the intelligence of the inhabitants shall arrive at its climax, and it shall equal the admirable Crichton’s, who ‘acted the divine, the lawyer, the mathematician, the soldier, and the physician, with such inimitable grace, that every time he appeared upon the theatre he seemed to be a different person.’
“Thus this event, like all other things human, had its end; and, amidst the unbounded praises and acclamations of the spectators, combined with the heart-stirring strains of the band which cast weariness on this occasion to absolute nothingness, and which was eminently calculated to magnify the sight, every one, with much éclat, went to his domicile prepared to relate to his absent friend or friends the dexterity and vigour evinced at the athletic arena, and all bade the scene of action their tender farewells!
“Sierra Leone, Jan. 1870.”
INDEX.
A
- Abuses by authorities of Angola, i. 54.
- Adansonias, abundance of, from River Congo to Mossamedes, i. 27.
- African fevers, facts and observations about, ii. [236].
- Agave, i. 29.
- Alligators, i. 65, ii. [123].
- Ambaca, natives of, ii. [103].
- Ambaquistas, natives of Ambaca, ii. [103].
- Ambriz, description of town, i. 153;
- trade of, ib.;
- iron pier at, 157;
- author’s return to, 233;
- negroes, customs of the, 281.
- ——, vegetation of, i. 30;
- exports from in 1874, 111.
- —— to Mossamedes, i. 23.
- —— to Loanda country, ii. [1].
- Ambrizzette, witchcraft at, i. 65;
- treatment of a black for forgery, 115.
- Amydrus fulvipennis, ii. [164].
- Andrade, on board the, to Quanza, ii. [113].
- Angola, discovery and early history, i. 1;
- Portuguese possessions of, 23;
- physical geography of, ib.;
- description of coast-line, ib.;
- character of landscape, 25;
- change of landscape at 13° S. lat., 26;
- vegetation of from Ambriz to Bembe, 29;
- slave trade in, 59;
- statistics of slaves shipped in, 67;
- division of, ii. [51];
- pay of governor and army officers, [52];
- abuses by authorities of, [54];
- climate of, [223];
- effect of climate on Europeans, ii. [237];
- customs of the natives, ii. [268].
- Angolœa fluitans, ii. [133].
- Anha River, ii. [173].
- Animal food of the natives, i. 297.
- Arachis hypogœa, native name of, “mpinda,” or “ginguba,” i. 129;
- description of, 130;
- its cultivation, ib.;
- preparation of the nut and Chili pepper, 132.
- Arms and war, i. 261.
- Atacamite, where found, i. 192.
- Athletic sports at Sierra Leone, account of, ii. [315].
- Author buys a slave, i. 77;
- the slave’s ingratitude to, ib.;
- reception of by Senhor Chaves at Boma, i. 83;
- at a picnic organized by Senhor Chaves, 87;
- catches four new species of fish at Boma, 95;
- discoverer of the baobab fibre as a substance for paper-making, 118;
- manages a malachite mine, 161;
- accompanies Mr. Augustus Archer Silva to Quanza, ii. [112].
- ——, mining explorations of, at Benguella, i. 43, ii. [191], [199].
B
- Baba Bay, abundance of fish at, ii. [216].
- Babies, treatment of, i. 71.
- Bagre fish, i. 50.
- Bagrus, “Bagre” fish, ii. [134].
- Baobab-tree—Adansonia digitata, i. 24, 29.
- —— bark, its application to paper-making (discovered by author in 1858), i. 75;
- baobabs at Boma, 84.
- —— or Adansonia digitata, as a substance for paper-making, i. 118;
- description of the tree, and use of the trunk, 120;
- mode of taking off the bark, 122;
- its fruit, and mode of climbing it, 128.
- Banana, trading factories at, i. 81.
- Bananas, or plantains, i. 294;
- as food, 295.
- Barra da Corimba, ii. [21].
- Basalt, ii. [220].
- Bats, abundance of in churches, ii. [129].
- Bed-clothing of the natives, i. 266.
- Beer, native, manufacture of, i. 301.
- Bees—mode of getting honey, ii. [165].
- Bellows, native, ii. [93].
- Bembe, vegetation of, i. 31;
- description of, 109.
- —— Fort, i. 190; soil about, 225.
- Bengo river, ii. [16].
- Bengo to Loanda, vegetation, ii. [18].
- Benguella, i. 28;
- mining operations at, 43;
- country south of, 45;
- fertility of its soil, trade, &c., ii. [181];
- slave-trade at, [184].
- —— and Mossamedes, country between, ii. [212].
- Berenjela, egg plant, i. 296.
- Bigode, or moustache-bird (Crithagra ictera), ii. [205].
- Bimba tree (Herminiera Elaphroxylon), ii. [195].
- Bimbas, birds at, ii. [206].
- Birds of Boma, i. 86;
- habits of various kinds, ib.
- Bitumen, ii. [11].
- Bleeding, fondness of the natives for, ii. [262].
- Boma, as centre for slave-trade, i. 56;
- cultivation of, 85;
- birds of, 86;
- distrust of natives at, 90.
- Bombó, preparation, i. 287.
- Bonny, landing at, i. 114.
- Brachytrypes achatinus (king cricket), i. 299.
- Brandy, use of in Africa, ii. [245].
- Bronchitis, &c., native treatment of, ii. [258].
- Bruto, plantation at, ii. [119].
- Bucorax Abyssinicus (hornbill), ii. [71].
- Bunda-speaking natives, indolence of, ii. [100].
- Burial among the natives, i. 276.
- —— and burial-places, ii. [275].
- Bustards, ii. [5].
- Bustards at Benguella, ii. [201].
- Butterflies, species of, ii. [295].
C