INDEX 



Abyssinia, South and Eastern, Rainy season of, 29. 

 Abyssinian buffalo, 166. 



Hunting-dog, 64. 



Oribi, 106, 166. 

 Animals : Abilities in finding one another, 61. 



Blood spoor of, 94. 



Bush and forest animals, 22. 



Bush animals' sense of hearing, 57. 



Characteristics of mountain animals, 31, 32, 



Characteristics of plains animals, 32. 



Comparisons in approaching several, 68. 



Deception in coloration of, 53. 



Glands versus smell, 62. 



In long, thick grass, 57. 



Kinds of, in each country, 31. 



Maimed and ailing, 93, 94. 



Mystery surrounding lives of, 22. 



Observations of plains animals, 4, 22, 99. 



Plain-dweller and lion, 57. 



Plains animals' intellect, 32, 57. 



Plains animals' ideas of safety, 32. 



Poisoning of, 7, 227. 



Remarks on rare and common, 4. 



Seeing in the dark, 61. 



Sense of smell, 56, 62. 



Shot in self-defence, 235. 



Taking to difficult country, 36. 



Tameness of plains animals, i, 39, 68. 



Vital parts of an, 227. 



Wariness of, 39. 

 Ankole, 165. 

 Ant-bear, 95. 



Native names for, 237. 



Nocturnal habits of, 237. 



Spoor and dung of, 237. 



Antelope (Harnessed), 165. 

 Hunter's, 107. 

 Habitat, 107, 237. 

 Preservation of, 230. 

 Ants, 214. 

 Author's attitude towards plain and bush shooting, 2 2 . 



Baboons, 35, 126. 



Baboon and leopard, 36, 127. 



Crossing a river, 126, 127. 



Food of, 36. 



Habitat, 35. 

 Bactrian camel, 27. 



Bahr-al-gebel, 164, 166, 167, 262, 263. 

 Bamboo, 31, 106, 171, 179, 184, 248, 252. 

 Barbary deer, 31. 

 Barbary sheep, 27, 31. 

 Baringo, 106, 241, 257, 266. 

 Beginner's luck, 82. 

 Beisa, 27. 



Beskaya Plains, 242. 

 Bongo, 7, 80. 



Bongo tree, 170, 240. 



Coloration, 53, 241. 



Difficult to bag, 7. 



Droppings of, 238. 



Fairly common, 7. 



Feeding in the forest, 170. 



Following up the, 239. 



Food of, 238. 



Habitat, 35, 184, 185, 186, 238. 



Habits, 239. 



Horns of, 241. 



Native hunters of, 7. 



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