PART II. 



GAME, THEIR SPOOR AND HABITS. 



WE have tried to group the animals together more by the size and similitude 

 of spoor than by scientific classification, so that, on looking up any 

 animal, the spoor likely to be confused with it can be seen immediately preceding and 

 following the animal in question. 



Thus, if the puku were the animal in question, on turning it up the impala and 

 bushbuck would be found preceding it, both of the same-sized spoor ; and then the 

 lechwe, a very different type. 



After the puku we would find the reedbuck more or less the same size and 

 type ; and then the oribi, a much smaller spoor, with which it could not be confused, 

 and so it would be unnecessary to look further. 



The names of trees and plants are usually given in the Chinyanja language (that 

 adopted by the Governments of British Central Africa and partly by that of North- 

 Eastern Rhodesia). 



In some cases the names are Chiyao, as the Manganja borrow from the Ayao 

 names for trees for which they have no names of their own. 



When the name is given in any other language but these two, the name of the 

 language is given in brackets. 



The Chikunda referred to is the language of the Achikunda living south-east 

 of Fort Jameson in Portuguese territory, and not the Chikunda of the Akunda or 

 Vakunda of the Loangwa, unless specially mentioned as being such. 



The Swahili is that of Lake Nyasa. 



The names of animals in Chichewa are usually the same as in Chinyanja when 

 not stated. Where they differ, the word is given. 



