INDEX
Reading edition
Abyssinian slave raids, 79
Anatomy of elephant, 35
Antelope-hunting, 68
Belgian domestic arrangements, 88
Blood-brotherhood, ceremony of, 56
Body shot, 8
Boyd-Alexander, visit to Sudan chief, 140
Brain shot, advantages of, 6
disadvantages of, 7
Buba Gida, interview with, 133
autocratic government by, 136
Buffalo, sinister reputation, 170
difference in colour, 171
Bukora, trouble at, 44
Canoes, Canadian “freight type,” 150
Elephant cemeteries, 73
Fighting, forms of, among natives, 62
Foot-travelling, remarkable feat of, 59
Government of native races, new idea of, in Sudan, 186
Habashi methods of punishment, 67
Harmatan, 165
Hearing distances, getting within, 2
Honey-guides, dealing with plague of, 18
mead, drinking, 17
Humidity of atmosphere, effect on sound-carrying, 50
Imitative ways of natives, 54
Ivory trading at Karamojo, 32
raiders, 21
Karamojans, dealing with, 36
incitement to murder amongst, 37
Killing elephants, chances of success in, 4
most humane method of, 6
Lado, evacuation of, by Belgians, 98
Lakkas, absence of authority amongst, 141
Lion-hunting by novices, 176
Lions, African, courage of, 175
encounters with game, 178
high mortality amongst hunters of, 177
Marathon racing, 68
Medicine men, assistance to hunters, 13
power of, 12
Mumias, town of, 21
Murua Akipi country, 66
Native ignorance of firearms, 41
Ras Tasama, rule of, 79
Rifles, most suitable types of, 6
selection of, for big-game hunting, 179
Scorpion sting, effect of, 48
Smuggling in Liberia, 109
Snaring, art of, 33
Storks, marabou, 162
Swamp region, hunting in, 86
Trap, setting of, 2
Turkwell River, 24
Tusks, method of removal, 32
Wa Boni tribe, 16
Wife, African idea of, 136
Witchcraft, African, 12
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