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at, at Zoological Gardens, Berlin, 

 277 



Rhinoceroses, Lieutenant von Wiese 

 brings down three, 18; Lieutenant 

 Weiss sees, at Mtagata and 

 Karagvve, 18 



Rhode, Mr., hunting tour with, i 



Rietbock seen at Katojo, 19 



Roads and bridges in Congo forest, 

 241 ; made by Congo Government, 

 226 



Ruanda, adapted for colonisation by 

 white men, 50 ; administration 

 compared with that of Bukoba, 

 45 ; administration of, 45 ; affores- 

 tation advisable in, 51 ; agricultural 

 possibilities of, 50 ; belief in trans- 

 migration of souls in, 49 ; caravan 

 attacked by aboriginals of, 82 ; 

 description of, 44; difference between 

 Urundi and, 45 ; forms of greeting 

 of natives, 55 ; health of inhabitants 

 of 50 ; I determine to march to, 

 via Lake Victoria, 2 ; Mildbraed 

 among the mountains of, 66 ; 

 mountains, flora of, 67 ; native ad- 

 ministration of, 48 ; outbreak of 

 fever rare in, 50; power of Resident 

 of, 46 ; principle of government in, 

 45 ; secret murder practised in, 48 ; 

 temperature of, 50 ; through, to 

 Lake Kiwu, 44 ; tribal division of 

 the population, 47 ; wares, we get 

 together an incomparable collection 

 of, 62 ; we arrive at, 44 



Ruasa, we meet Dr. Czekanowski at, 

 120 ; we visit the mission station 

 at, 122 



Rubber, cultivation of, in Congo State, 

 232 ; scarcity of, at Irumu, 232 ; 

 yield of, at Mawambi, 243 



Rufua, we arrive at, 20 ; we hurry 

 forward to, 20 



Rugege forest, charm of, described, 72 ; 

 list of trees and tree shrubs in, 

 71 ; Mildbraed and Schubotz deter- 

 mine to visit, 63 ; Mildbraed's 

 report on his expedition to, 64 ; 

 temperature at night in, 70 



Ruhikika, Sultan, we are welcomed 

 by, 18 



Ruiaamba, we arrive at, 182 



Rukarara, Mildbraed camps in vicinity 

 of the, 69 



Russenje, 38 



Rutschuru, abundance of game at. 170 ; 

 description of, 169 ; difficulty of 

 crossing gorge at, 171 ; flora of, 

 175 ; lion hunt at, 171 ; our recep- 

 tion at, i6q; plain of, fauna of, 

 170 ; second lion hunt at, 172 ; 



steppe, barrenness of, 170 ; tem- 

 perature on the plain of, 168; we 

 push on to, 150 



Rutschuru River, Raven compelled to 

 swim the, 175 ; we cross the, 169 



Ruwenzori, Czekanowski journeys to, 

 193 ; dearness of provisions at, 

 181 ; difficulties of our journey to, 

 206 ; flora and fauna on our way 

 to, 206 ; geology of, remarks con- 

 cerning, 208 ; glaciers, 209 ; I get 

 an excellent view of chain of 

 mountains at, 198 ; population of, 

 181 ; pursuits of, 181 ; record from 

 my diary of our journey to, 208 ; 

 timidity of natives on the road 

 to, 207 



St. Gustaye, the mission station of, 



195 



Sabinjo, Mount, Kirschstein's report 

 on, 126; Lieutenant von Wiese, the 

 first European to climb, 126 



Salambongo, a large Wambutti camp 

 at, 229 



Salt, metfiod of gathering at Katwe, 

 192 



Salt lake, an inland, at Katwe, 192 



Sambia, we camp at, 195 



Schampf, fodocarpus seen in the Valley 

 of the, 74 



Schirati, military outpost of, 2 



Schubotz, Dr., appointed zoologist, 3 ; 

 ascends Ulimbi, 218; brings down 

 a pair of giant touracos, 74 ; 

 congratulates me on my killing a 

 lion, 34 ; discovers an abundance 

 of plankton, 41 ; leaves Mildbraed, 

 to proceed to Lake Albert, 219; 

 returns to camp, 28 ; sets out to 

 make an investigation of swamp 

 fauna, 38 ; we miss, 28 ; visits 

 Bugoie, 140 



Srheitani, of Namlagira, 153 



Scientific apparatus carried by expe- 

 dition, 4 



Sea-eagle, the, 98 



Semliki, dangers of ferrying across, 

 169; elephant hunt on the, 186; 

 sport in the valley of the, 185 ; 

 through the valley of the, to the 

 Kilo goldfields, 195 ; we make 

 excursions on the, 184 ; we visit 

 the British Commission on the, 

 221 



Shore dwellers of Lake Albert Edward, 

 we examine, 184 



Signalling, methods of, 29 



