INDEX 



353 



Koranas, language of the, 336 



Languages spoken in South Africa, 



332, 333 



Large Game and Natural History of 

 South and Soidh-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 



Libebe'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 Bush- 

 men, 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 tiy, 167 ; on the Bushmen, 338 



Livingstone search expedition, com- 

 manded 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, con- 

 victed of witchcraft, 105 



Louren90 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 hyeenas, 104 

 Alan-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, hycena 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. Living- 

 stone, 338 



