INDEX 



Abbot, Mr., donkey waggon service in 

 Transvaal, established by, 153 



Addo bush, Cape Colony, wild animals 

 in the, 135 ; buffaloes in, 137 



African Hunting from Natal to the 

 Zambesi, by Baldwin, 185 



Alaska, colouring of the wild animals 

 of, in winter, 1 1 



Amatongaland, the author's journey 

 to, 222 ; inyalas found in, 223 



Andersson, C. J., his opinion on 

 buffaloes and tse-tse flies, 161 ; his 

 opinion on the Keitloa rhinoceros, 

 183 ; on the black rhinoceros, 184 



Angas, Douglas, the inyala first 

 described by, 222 ; his further 

 description of the inyala, 243 



Angwa river, in Southern Rhodesia, 

 a few rhinoceroses left near, 131 



Animals, wild, colour of, xiii, I f. ; the 

 author's opinion on the colour of, 4 

 ff. ; different colouring of, in the 

 same regions, 12 ; senses used by, 

 when hunting, 14 ; influence of 

 surroundings on the coloration of, 

 39; restlessness of, 19,42; collected 

 in the Dett valley, 133 ; African, 

 unharmed by the tse-tse fly's biting, 



173 



Antelope, colour of an, 23, 29 ; size 

 of ears in African, 30 ; difference 

 between male and female, 33. See 

 Blesbok, Bontebok, Duiker, Clems- 

 buck, Impala, Inyala, Koodoo, 

 Situtunga, Stc-inbuck, Tsessebe, 

 Reedbuck 



Ant-heaps, common in South Africa, 



-5 



Arms of Bushmen, 341 

 Arnot, F. S. , his description of the 



death of an elephant killed by 



lions, 65 

 Arrows, poisoned, formerly used by 



Bushmen when hunting lions, 94 ; 



formerly the only arms of Bush- 

 men, 329 



Baines, Thomas, and the tse-tse flies 

 in the Limpopo valley, 1871, re- 

 corded in his book Gold Regions of 

 South- East Africa, 151 



Bakalahari tribes, Dr. Livingstone on 

 the, 339 



Baldwin, African Hunting from -A atal 

 to the Zambesi ', by, 184 ; and the 

 inyala, 1854, 223 



Barnbaleli, Enduna of Bulawayo, 

 courage of, when fighting lions, 94 



Bantu, an African race, 334 ; charac- 

 teristics of the, 338 



Barbary sheep. See Sheep 



Baringo, Lake, miraculous escape of 

 Mr. Eastwood near, 199 



Barking of wild dogs, 120 



Barotse country, tse-tse flies in, 159 



Batauwana, the, tribe at Lake N'gami, 

 161 



Bechwana, a Bantu tribe of South 

 Africa, 339 



Bechwanaland 1'rotectorate, ant- 

 heaps common in, 25 ; inhabited 

 by Bushmen, 330 



Bellowing, a dying buffalo's, 142 



Biff Game Shooting oi the Badminton 

 Library, 198 



Birds, Darwin's opinion of the colour 

 of, 3 ; ravens not Arctic, 42 ;/. : 

 tick-, warning rhinoceroses, 189 



Bite of a lion, poisonous nature of 

 the, 49, 71, 203 ; of a tse-tse fly, 



175 

 Blaauwbok, extinct in South Africa. 



130 



Bleek, Dr., on the languages spoken 

 in South Africa, 332 ; on the 

 language of the dwarfish Bushmen, 

 336 



Blesbok, description of a, 37 ; mis- 



349 



