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