INDEX 



351 



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 Batau- 



wana, 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 Naiu7'al 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' HattJtts, by Captain 



Faulkner, 227 

 Elliott, Rev. W. A., at Umshlangeni, 



the author's experience when stay- 

 ing with, 1882, 176 

 Elmenteita, in British East Africa, 5 ; 



zebras near, 21 

 Enduna, a dignity in Matabeleland, 94 

 Engelbreght, Michael, Boer hunter, 



179 ; story told by, 64 



Europe, lions common in, at the time 



of Herodotus, diT, 

 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 



hyaenas, 103 ; of Bushmen, 341 

 " Foreword " by President Roose- 

 velt, 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 7/iorsitans. See Tse-tse fly 



Goats, African, unaffected by tse-tse 

 fly disease, 173 



Gold found in the Transvaal, 152 ; 

 in Wit waters 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 



I on the giraffe in the, 218 



Griqualand, 337 

 j Grogan and Sharpe, Messrs., East- 



