INDEX 



Abbot, Mr. , donkey waggon service in 

 Transvaal, established by, 153 



Addo bush, Cape Colony, wild animals 

 in the, 135 ; buffaloes in, 137 



Africait Htiuting from Natal to the 

 Za?fibest, by Baldwin, 185 



Alaska, colouring of the wild animals 

 of, in winter, 1 1 



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, I 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, Gems- 

 buck, 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 Bush- 

 men, 329 



Baines, Thomas, and the tse-tse flies 

 in the Limpopo valley, 1 87 1, re- 

 corded in his book Gold Regions of 

 Sotith-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 ; charac- 

 teristics 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, 



Blesbok, description of a, 37 ; mis- 



349 



