INDEX 



Cheetah, or hunting leopard, 35, 122. 



characteristics of, habitat of, 123., 



encounters with, 124, 126. 



food of, 123, 128. 



size of, habits of, etc., 128. 



wonderful eyesight of, 126. 

 Colbus defassa, new subspecies, 



i77#. 

 CoUyer, Mr. C, 8, 272,- 

 Colobus monkey, 6, 9, 17. 



characteristics of, 219. 



habitat of, 218. 



habits of, 218, 220. 



white, 219. 

 Congo Free State, 20. 

 Crane, crested, 244. 

 Crocodile, 6, 8, 9, 235. 



kills rhino, 235. 



man-eater, killed, 237. 



missionary killed by, 236. 



precautions against, 238. 



skin of, 238. 



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Dead thrown to wild beasts, 117, 215. 



Denby, Colonel, testimony of, 267. 



Dik-dik, 17, 180. 



Donga, 45. 



Dress of natives, 246, 247, 249, 250, 



253, 260. 

 Ducks, wild, 243. 

 Dugmore, Mr. Radcliffe, 277. 

 Duiker, blue, 17. 



Harvey's, 16. 



Isaac's, 17. 



Eglon, Mountain, 10, 301. 



Egret, 17. 



Eland, 2, 6, 7, 9, 12, 15, 16. 



description of, 156. 



domestication of, 160. 



flesh of, 159. 



habitat of, 154. 



habits of, 154-156, 158. 



hunting of, 157, 159. 



Elephant, 9, 12, 15. 



combat of, with rhino, y^' 



encounters with, 59, 62, 66. 



eyesight of, 66. 



food of, 54. 



habitat of, 55. 



habits of, 53, 60, 71, yz- 



native hunting of, 71. 



tracking of, 56-59. 



two species of, 52. 

 Elmenteita, Lake, 206, 214, 240. 

 Engimma, 217. 



Expedition, first to East Africa, 25, 

 48, 62-66, yy, 133, 137, 143-146, 

 185, 204. 



Fish eagle, 16. 



Flamingo, 237, 244. 



Fort Baringo, 174. 



Fort Hall, 6. 



Foster, Honorable John W., testi- 

 mony of, 267. 



Funza, method of attack of, pre- 

 cautions against, 3. 



Game birds, quality of flesh of, 238. 

 Game laws, 13-19. 

 Gardomurtu River, 83. 

 Gazelles, description of, habits of, etc., 

 188-191. 



Grant's, 2, 6, 9, 12, 16, 17, 197. 



meat of, 190. 



Peter's, 17. 



Soemmerring's, 17. 



Thomson's or " tommy," 2, 6, 9, 

 17, 128, 189. 



Waller's, 16, 17. 

 Geese, wild, 9, 243. 

 Gelder, Mr. Herman, experience of, 



with rhino, 149. 

 German East Africa, i, 74, 104, 133, 



153. 154, 174- 

 Giant bustard, 239. 



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