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his African experiences, 34 ; 

 first African expedition, 36 ; 

 joins Mr. Murray of Lintrose, 

 36 ; on the locust, 38 ; Moffat's 

 hospitality to him, 40 ; in a 

 grass fire, 40 ; first kill of a 

 rhino, 42 ; on the rhinoceros, 

 45 ; the giraffe, 48 ; the buf- 

 falo, 50 ; close encounters 

 with buffaloes, 53 ; meeting 

 with John Thomas, 56 ; bush 

 night adventure, 60 ; his 

 Kafir name, 63, note ; repel- 

 ling night attack of lions, 67 ; 

 encounters with lions, 68-71 ; 

 reception by Secomi, 71 ; 

 hunting elephants, 74-87 ; 

 astonished at Livingstone's 

 meat-eating, 83 ; first sight of 

 hippopotami, 84 ; second ex- 

 pedition to South Africa, 88 ; 

 joins Major Vardon, 88 ; on 

 lions, 92 ; meeting with Boers, 

 97 ; on the cooking of pachy- 

 dermata, 98 ; tries water from 

 an elephant's stomach, 100 ; 

 charged by a rhinoceros, 



1 02 ; loss of his horse Stael, 



103 ; on horses for African 

 sporting, 104 ; another night 

 adventure, 107 ; description 

 of a typical African breakfast, 

 108 ; on ants, 109 ; on Bush- 

 men and Bechuana as hunters, 

 no; on the tsetse fly, 113; 

 lectures before Entomological 

 Society, 1 14 ; tossed by a 

 rhino, 116; encounter with 

 a lion, 119; gratitude shown 

 him by a wounded Kafir, 121; 

 joins Livingstone again, 123 ; 

 difficulty with Secomi, 123 ; 

 deceived by mirage, 125 ; 

 description of a camp stam- 

 pede, 127 ; lion killing, 127 ; 

 sights a big herd of elephants, 

 129 ; shooting maneless lions, 

 132 ; meets an inefficient 

 sportsman, 133 ; anecdote of 

 dogs and alligators, 133 ; 

 observation of bird instinct, 



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134 ; meets Mr. Webb and 

 Captain Shelley, 135 ; on leo- 

 pards and baboons, 1 36 ; nar- 

 row escape from an elephant, 

 1 39 ; his opinion of Living- 

 stone, 142 ; introduced to 

 Sebitoani, 143 ; alarms the 

 Macoba with a burning-glass, 

 144 ; Sebitoani visits him and 

 relates his life, 145 ; on Afri- 

 can colonisation, 150; on the 

 Boers, 151 



Otters, 137 



Ovis montana, 381 



Oxen, South African, 127, 149 



Ozi river, East Africa, 170, 269 



PAA (N. Kirkii), 309, 310 



Pacific coast, 423 



Packing boxes, 164 



Pagazi (East African porters), 



177-181 

 Paget, Colonel Arthur, 316, 327, 



330 



Pala-hala (sable antelope), 293 

 Pampas, the, 425-427 

 Pan Handle country, Texas, 380 

 Pangani river, East Africa, 290 

 Panther, 15; American (Felis 



concolor), 348-351 

 Paradox gun, 21, 157, 28.1, 364, 



365, 368. See Battery 

 Paraguay, 425 

 Patagonia, 425 



Patta Island, East Africa, 300 

 Payne-Gallwey waterproof, the, 



1 60 



Pemba, East Africa, 310 

 Perry, Mr., on the North Ameri- 

 can panther, 349, 350 ; on the 



puma, 426 

 Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, on big 



game and its habitat, in North 



America, 346-424 

 Piet, his ad venture with a buffalo, 



54 

 Pike, Arnold, 24, 365-368, 385, 



395. 405 



Pike, VVarburton, 378, 418,419 

 Pitsi (horse), 124 



