452 



URS 



Ursus tibetanus, 373 



Useri, East Africa, 181, 289, 



293, 298 

 Useri river, 294, 299 



VALISES for a sporting expedi- 

 tion, 162 



Van Dyke, Mr., 349 ; his ' Still 

 Hunter,' 20 



Vancouver Island, 350, 355 

 3 6 9-37i 374, 381 ; wapiti in, 

 403, 404, 405, 407, 423, 424 



Vanga, East Africa, 170, 276 



Vardon, Major Frank, 34; auda- 

 cious treatment of a mahoho, 

 44 ; narrow escape from a 

 giraffe, 49 ; his meeting with 

 Oswald, 89; Oswald's opinion 

 of him, 89; his impressions 

 of the Dutch language, 97 ; 

 an enthusiastic rhinoceros 

 hunter, 98 ; his account of 

 Oswald's narrow escape from a 

 rhino, 103 ; sends specimens 

 of tsetse fly to England, 113 ; 

 his skill at rhinoceros hunting, 

 1 16 ; returns to England, 

 119; interviews an incapable 

 lion hunter, 133 

 Venadillo (South American 



deer), 427 

 Victoria, British Columbia, 372, 



423. 



Victoria Nyanza, 169, 297, 311 

 Virginian or white-tailed deer 



(C. virginianus), 396 

 Vonk (Oswell's pony), 107 

 Vultures, 108, 245, 246 



WA NANDI (East African tribe), 



182 



Wa Pokomo boatmen, 170 

 Wa Taveta (East African tribe), 



169 

 Waganda (East African tribe), 



297 



Wait-a-bits, 29 

 Wakamba (East African tribe), 



169 



WIL 



Waller's gazelle, 169 



Wami river, East Africa, 291, 



293 



Wangketsi (South African tribe), 



64 



Wapiti (Cervus canadensis), 15, 

 395 ; size of antlers, 402 ; 

 haunts, 403 ; rutting season, 

 405 ; food, 405 ; size and 

 weight, 406, 407 ; habits, 407 ; 

 name, 408; stalking, 409-413; 

 heads, 414 



Wapokomo (East African tribe), 

 269, 270 



Ward, Rowland, cited, 379, 

 3 8 5> 395. 4i8, 423, 424 



Ward, Rowland, & Co., 429 



Wart-hogs, 174, 200, 284, 



325 

 Washington Territory, 369, 



370, 381, 403 

 Water in East Africa, 172, 173, 



201 

 Waterbuck, the, 89, 122, 169, 



230, 231, 303 

 Water calabash, the, 178 

 Water-holes, 201, 202 

 Waterproofs in a sporting ex- 

 pedition, 1 60 

 Water-tins, 172 

 Webb, W. F., of Newstead 



Abbey, 31, 135 

 Wells, Sam (meat hunter), 404, 



408, 410, 412 

 Weri-weri river, East Africa, 



167, 230, 303 



Westley-Richards 12-bore, 33 

 White-tail (C. virginianus), habi- 

 tat and haunts, 421 ; weight 

 and head, 423 

 ' Wild Beasts and their Ways,' 



257, 324, 328 

 Wild cattle, 425, 426 

 Wild dogs, 71 



Wildebeest, 60, 93, 112 ; brind- 

 led or blue', 289 

 Williams, Capt. W. H., R.A., 



3i 



Williamson, Andrew, on wapiti, 



406, 407 

 Willoughby, Sir John, 293 



