INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME 



449 



PLA 



' Plains of the Great West,' 378, 



406 

 Polar bear (Ursus maritimus), 



352, 356 

 Porcupine, 196 

 Porters, East African, 177-181, 



275, 313 



Posho (food), 176, 313 

 Potoquan (Harris's black buck), 



65 

 Pringle, Capt. J. W., R.E., 



242, 260 

 Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra 



americana), 393-395 

 Puma, American, 349, 426 

 Pungwe river, East Africa, 315, 



320, 330, 331 

 ' Pup ' (sporting collie), 25 

 Purdey lo-bore, 33 

 Purdey & Co., 28 



QUAGGA, 40, 60, 75, 84, 93, 



"2, 315 



Quail, 187 



Quain, Sir Richard, 114 

 Quebaaba (R. Oswellii), 42, 44 

 Quebec province, 398 



RAIN doctors, African, 46 

 Rainfall in South Africa, 39 

 Rainsford, Dr., on North 



American bears, 353 

 Ramazan (gun-bearer), 264, 



266, 276, 287, 288 

 Ratel, the, 196 

 Red ants, 109 

 Red deer, Scotch, 403, 404 

 Red duyker (Cephalolophus 



Harveyi), 285, 308 

 Reed-buck, lesser, 297 

 Remedies for snake-bites, 312 

 Rhea, South American, 425 

 Rhinoceros, South African, 41, 

 42 ; rapid extinction, 44 ; its 

 horn, 45 ; habits, 45 ; atten- 

 dant bird, 46, 252 ; snooting, 

 84, 95 ; Oswell's horse killed 

 by, 101 ; Oswell's narrow 

 escape from, 117 ; East 

 African, 169 ; vitality, 203 ; 



S-CH 



charges, 2 14; range of habitat, 

 251 ; character, 251 ; easy 

 stalking, 253 ; native fear of, 

 257 ; bush feeders, 258 ; saved 

 by sentinel birds, 257, 258 ; 

 how to kill, 261 ; fights be- 

 tween, 263. 



Rhinoceros africanus, 43 ; 

 bicornis, 251, 315 ; keitloa, 

 43, 44, 251 ; simus, 315 



Rhinoceros attendant birds, 46, 

 252, 257, 258 



Rio Colorado, 426 



Ripon Falls (Nile), 270 



Roan antelope, 292 



Rocky Mountain goat (Haplo- 

 ceros montanus), habitat, 390, 

 391 ; stalking, 391 ; measure- 

 ment, 392 



Rocky Mountains, buffalo in, 

 378; bighorn, 381, 384; 

 goats, 390-302 ; moose, 397 



Rombo plains, East Africa, 200, 

 245, 298 



Rooyebuck, 60 



Rooyen, Cornelius van, 327 



SABAKI river, East Africa, 270, 



291, 293, 300, 304 

 Sable antelope, 293 

 Sacocle mountain, Alaska, 367 

 Sadala (tent-boy), 276 

 Safari (caravan), 176 

 St. Lawrence river, 369, 396, 397 

 Sala (Gazella Petersi), 299 

 Sala or Swara (Grant's gazelle), 



298 

 Salisbury, Mashonaland, 318, 



333, 336 



Salmon, 360, 366 

 Salmon river, Vancouver 



Island, 407 



Sambur leather leggings, 160 

 San Francisco, grizzly of, 360 

 San Juan, Straits of, 392 

 Sand -grouse (Pterocles decor - 



atus), 186, 197 

 Sasaybye, the, 50 

 Saskatchewan, the, 378 

 S-cheeked curb-bits, 105 



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