INDEX
Reading edition
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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