CONTENTS 



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Timber — I Reduce my Menu to the most simple style possible 

 — The Python — Excursion on the Pungwe — An interesting 

 Cure — The Misdeeds of the Crocodile — An Encounter with 

 Elephants — An Angry Female — An Agonising Night . . 79 



CHAPTER V 



IN THE LION COUNTRY 



Voyage in a Canoe — Departure for the Tendos — What is a 

 Tendo ? — Chitengo and his Son — Installation of a Camp on the 

 Pungwe — Laying Bait for Lions — The Pala — The Tsessebe — My 

 First Lion from the Pungwe — A Double Shot — Five Lions — 

 Another Splendid Day — A Lion as an Unwelcome Guest — An 

 Old Lion — The Tsetse — Two Timid Lions — Sojourn at Sabonga 

 — Removal to Chingole — My Wife Stopped by a Lioness — 

 Return to the Sungwe — Departure for M'kulumazi — A Leopard 

 that Climbed like a Cat — Sojourn at Gilly — Death of an old 

 Buffalo and an Eland . . . . . . 105 



CHAPTER VI 



BETWEEN THE ZAMBEZI AND THE PUNGWE 



Departure for Chinde — A Cyclone — Description of Chinde — The 

 Zambesi — From Marromeu to Mopea — Chupanga — Man-eating 

 Lions — From Chimboue to Sena — The Kudu — The Nyala — A 

 Dreary Feast — The Mountains of Chiringoma — Return 

 to Beira — Departure for a last Expedition — Kafir Canoes — 

 Water-fowl Shooting and Wonderful Fishing — A Rise of the 

 Pungwe — A Storm — Sojourn at M'sassa Barao — The Egret — 

 Hippopotamuses — The Urema and its Canal from the Zambezi 

 to the Pungwe — Arrival at Chitengo — My Last Lions — Return 

 to France . . . . . . . . 133 



APPENDIX 



List of the Specimens 



Collected by William Vasse, between the years 1904 and 1907 

 inclusive, in Eastern Portuguese Africa . . . .159 



B. List of Ammunition . . . 161 



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