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AFRICAN NATURE NOTES 



taken 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 Zulu- 

 land, 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, 120; 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 Matabele- 

 land, 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 ; priva- 

 tions 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 South- 

 ern Bechwanaland, 1845, ^3^ 

 Cape Colony, bushbucks found in, 31 

 Caravans charged by rhinoceroses, 



193 



Caribou, colouring of the, 9, 11 ; 

 unconscious of human beings' pres- 

 ence, 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; in- 

 stinct of, after water, 322 



Chapman, his opinion on the keitloa 

 rhinoceros, 183 



Chetahs, curious running and crouch- 

 ing of, 125 ff. ; swiftness of Indian, 

 128 



Chobi river, bushbucks found near, 

 32 ; CoUison 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 

 CoUison, H. C, and the wild dogs, 



123 ; hunting buffaloes, 1879, at 



Tlakani, 313 

 Colour of wild animals, xiii, xvi, i 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, 



Columbia, Northern British, ii 

 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 ex- 

 perience 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 colora- 

 tion of birds, 3 



Darwin, Mount, buffaloes near, 135 



