INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME 



439 



BIR 



Birds (African), instinct of, 

 anecdote of, 134 



Bird-Thompson, Mr., 304 



Bison, North American, 376 ; 

 habits and chase, 377; extinc- 

 tion, 403 



Black bear (Ursus americanus), 



35 * , 353-357. 369-375 

 Black-tail (Cervus columbianus), 



419, 423 

 Blue buck, 309 



Boers, 97 ; their manner of kill- 

 ing elephants, 1 1 1 ; influence 

 over the black races, 151 5 

 English attitude towards, 151 

 B)mas (zerebas), 173 

 Boots, English shooting, 1 8 

 Borili (rhinoceros), 42, 44 

 Boscowitz's store, Victoria, British 



Columbia, 361, 371, 375 

 Brayos river, North America, 



369 



Bridge River country, British 

 Columbia, 391 



British Columbia, bears in, 23, 

 347,35i 354, 359, 369,371, 

 375,. . 39; moose, 398; 

 wapiti, 403 ; woodland cari- 

 bou, 415; mule deer, 419; 

 white-tail, 421 



British Columbian Museum, 416 



British Museum, 426 



British South Africa Company, 



333 

 Bubalis leucoprymnus (harte- 



beest), 291 



Bucking horses, Cape, 105 

 Buffalo, South African, herds of, 

 41 ; courage, 51 ; baffling 

 attack by lions, 52 ; its charge, 

 54; vengeful nature, 54 ; stam- 

 peding, 55 ; three lions at- 

 tacking one, 90 ; its tender 

 spot, 95 ; a swarm of, 96 ; 

 East African, destroyed by 

 anthrax, 186, 217 ; vitality, 

 203 ; ferocity, 214 ; hunting, 



216 ; large numbers formerly, 



217 ; habits, 218 ; stalking, 

 219-225 ; birds attendant on, 

 225 ; best mode of killing, 



CAR 



225-229 ; a typical instance of 

 the animal's cunning and fero- 

 city, 230-235 ; prey for lions, 

 243-245, 248, 288, 322 



Bul-bul, the, 197 



Buphaga erythrorhyncha (birds 

 attendant on rhinoceros), 225, 

 252 



Bura natives (African tribe), 

 172 



Burros, 25 



Burroughs & Wellcome's medi- 

 cine chests, 163 



Bush cuckoo (Centropus mon- 

 achus), 197 



Bush-buck, 306 



Bush francolin, 197 



Bushmen, locust food of, 38 ; 

 digging for water, 39 ; advice 

 regarding lions, 93 ; honesty, 

 101 ; as sportsmen, 1 10 ; 

 powers of restraining thirst, 

 124 ; sketches of the oryx in 

 their caves, 129 ; mode of 

 boring for water, 130 ; capa- 

 city for absorbing water, 137 ; 

 mode of stalking the ostrich, 

 278 



Bustard (Otis kori), 167, 200 



Bute Inlet, British Columbia, 

 392 



CALIFORNIA, 394 



Camp gear, 161 



Canada, game laws of, 346 ; 



moose hunting, 399 ; caribou, 



415-418 



Canada geese, 366 

 Cannibalism in South Africa, 



146 



Cape horses, 105 

 Cape oryx, 130 

 Caravan, the sportsman's, 176 ; 



duties of the headman, 176 ; 



the soldiers, 177 ; the porters, 



178-181 ; goods for barter, 



179; food, 180; number of 



armed men required, 181 ; 



arms and ammunition, 182 ; 



gun-bearers, 183 



