INDEX 



Aba, 48 



Acacia Horrida, 77, 92 



Africa, mission work in, viii 



Aka district, 187 



Albert Nyanza, Lake, 32 



Alenzoi, 159 



Amadi, 48 



" Americani," 198 



Amusements, native. (See under 



" Native.") 

 Antelopes, 9, 59 

 Ara river, the, 1 13 

 Arrows, Congolese, 69 

 Ashes as wind-gauge, 109 

 Askaris, 24, 49 



Bandas, 194 



Bangala, the, 190 



Bari river, 68 



Bathing in the tropics, 53 



Belgian Administration, the, 86, 145 

 Congo, obstacles to trade in, 86 

 treatment of the natives, ix, 168, 

 188, 257 



Bellows, Congolese, 196 



Bennett, Mr., 39 



" Billygces," the, 188 



Blackwater fever, 35 



Bora, 67 



Brain-shot v. Heart-shot at elephants, 

 109 



Bridges, native suspension, 195 



Britlebank, Mr., 39 



Brown, Walter, 255 



Bow and arrow, native skill with, 123 



Buckley, Mr., 23, no 



Buildings, native, 205 



Burial customs and ceremonies, 200 



Bushiri, 169 



Busoga, 142 



Butiaba, 55, 248 



"Call of Africa, the," 182 



Camp, night scene in, 61 



Camping grounds, selection and care of, 



22 

 Cannibalism, 204 



Cannibals, 257 

 Carew, Lieutenant, 24 

 Champagne, medicinal value of, 35 

 Chemical cookery, 118, 120 

 Church Missionary Society, 17 

 Cicatrisation, 107 

 tolobus monkeys, 123 

 Commissariat, the, 129 

 Congolese, the, v, viii 

 Cookery, uncanny, 188 



under difficulties, 133 

 Cooper, Arthur, 136 

 Cooper, R. Davey, early experiences, viii 

 Craig, Jock, 126 

 Crawford, Miss, 125 

 Crocodiles, 42, 58 

 Cultivation in the Congo, 76, 100 

 Curiosity, native, 204 



191, 250 

 (See also Medicine.) 



" Darkest Africa, 

 " Dawa," 77, 79. 

 Delagoa Bay, 1 

 Drani, 159 

 " Drum-talk," 116 

 Dungu, 202 



Egg and spoon race, 121 



Elands, 9 



Elephants, 84, 108, 128, 192 



habits of, in 



native methods of capturing, 183 



their keen scent, 109 



vulnerable parts of, head-shot v. 

 heart-shot, 109 

 Entebbe, 14 



Farbra, 99 



Fat, external application of, 102 



Fire-arms, the use of, in 



Fish " Eagle," the, 38 



Fishing, 37, 72 



Flcisher, Mr., 12 



Floating islands, 74 



Game, 9. (See also under various 

 specie ) 

 nativr mi ihods of capturing, 68 

 Girouard, Sir Percy, 8 



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