INDEX. 
Puff adder up a Dutchman’s trouser 
leg, 229 
adders, deaths by, 230 
ege and young, 222 
how they kill their 
prey, 225 
how the young are 
born, 221 
in captivity, 223 
poison apparatus, 237 
the sexes, 229 
vary in colour, 229 
Python, an adventure, 71 
and buck, 74 
and buck-hunting incident, 
72 
and his boy chum, 462 
and his boy friend, 64 
and Klip Dassie, 70 
and the cock, 72 
an exciting adventure, 69 
a sensation, 65 
constricting a buck, 66 
figure and skeleton of, 
59 
head of, 58 
smashing crockery, 77 
steak, 79 
swallowing a bird, 73 
Pythonadipsas, 119 
Pythons, 57 
and kafir superstitions, 65 
artificial feeding, 75 
Pythons’ eggs, 70 
Pythons’ fasting powers, 78 
legs, 78 
in Cape Colony, 79 
on a krantz, 67 
on the watch, 63 
their haunts and diet, 60 
R. 
Red-lipped or Herald snake, 134 
Reptiles living and extinct, Io 
Rhachiodontine, go 
Rhampiophis, 121 
Ringhals, 175 
experiments with, 378 
cobra, 183 
and young, 184, 193 
bespattered glass with venom, 
188 
consequences of being bitten, 
IQ 
effect of the venom upon the 
eyes, 190 
539 
Ringhals, experiments with the 
venom, 190 
fierce and aggressive, 187 
how one was captured, 185 
how they spit, 189 
how to hold it, 192 
how we photographed him, 
186 
Roode-lip slang, 134 
Royal Python of Senegambia, 281 
Sh 
Salivary glands and teeth, 290 
Salt-water snakes, 43, 157 
Sand snakes, 124 
Scarifying, how to do it, 404 
Schaapsteker, a battle, 132 
Schaapstekers, 130 
and eggs, 131 
Scorpions, 326 
Sebiba cure, 315 
Secondary treatment of snake-bite, 
420 
Sense of smell, 20 
Sepedon, 165 
Serum, and how to get it, 395 
FitzSimons’ outfit, 408 
how to inject it into arm, 
406 
into leg, 409 
into vein, 419 
instructions in brief, 424 
its effects, 396 
therapeutics, 421 
treatment and its 
tions, 399 
treatment of animals, 413 
treatment of snake bite, 
imita- 
390 
Shield snake, 195 
Shields on snakes’ heads, 48 
Simocephalus, 85 
Smelling out a man, 65 
Snake blood and gall cure, 336 
catcher at work, 251 
charmers, 246 
at work, 248 
charming explained, 249 
eating bird, 339 
houses, 47 
knowledge in brief, 461 
stones, 336 
venom, 352 
effect if swallowed, 
338 
