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INDEX. 



Game, Disappearance of, 19, 20, 24, 106, 217. 

 Effect of cold on horns, 27, 28. 

 Family ties of, 100. 

 Flight upwind of, 57. 

 Game and the stationary object, 56, 60, 



150. 

 Game of Uganda, 164. 

 Game on the plains, 89. 

 Grazing upwind, 57. 

 Harmony with surroundings, 55. 

 Joys and dangers of, 96. 

 List of British East African, 39. 

 List of game in reserves, 229. 

 Lying up, 121. 

 Neumann's hartebeest, 106. 

 Night grazing, 93. 

 On sighting the hunter, 121, 151. 

 One method of approaching, 69. 

 Packing together for protection, 95. 

 Peculiar glands of, 62. 

 Plains- dweller and lion, 96. 

 Precautionary measures of, 152. 

 Preservation of, 217 to 236. 

 Range of approach, 68. 

 Scarcely visited haunts of, 108. 

 Sense of colour of, 60. 



Special causes affecting changes in, 26 

 to 28. 



Sportsman's attitude towards, 1. 



Stalking game, 109. 



Swamp and water dwelling, 34. 



The leeward side and the foe, 55. 



The sportsman on the path, 68. 



Uncertainty in hunting big game, 5. 



What game rely on for escape, 49. 



Wounded game of plains, 66, 130. 

 Dangerous : Ancient way of hunting, 83. 



Attacks of, 176. 



Charge of buffalo, 176. 



Charge of lioness, 176. 



Difficulty of bagging, 87. 



Enumeration of, 86. 



Hazards run in hunting, 81, 86, 87. 



Ideas about, 82. 



Mauling by lions, 87. 



Modern way of hunting, 83. 



Native support, 198. 



Game, Dangerous, Sportsman's respect for, 82. 

 The muzzle-loader and, 85. 

 Writers at variance, 8, 9. 



Plurals of rhino and hippo, 17. 

 Protective colours and, 51. 

 Statements, 10. 



Temperament affecting observations, 18. 

 Theories of arm-chair naturalists, 62. 

 Views on rhino charges, 15. 

 Gas-hole, 161. 

 Gazelles, 258. 



Glands of, 62. 

 Clarke's, Rivalry of, 37. 

 Grant's, 27, 63, 68, 80, 90, 104, 229, 233. 

 Habitat of, 27. 

 Horns of, 69, 257. 

 Native names for, 257. 

 Northern form of, 105, 229, 257. 

 Peter's, 80, 229. 

 Habitat, 258. 

 Roberts Grant's, 105. 

 Habitat, 105, 257. 

 Horns of, 257. 

 Rothschild's, 166, 258. 



Habitat, 258. 

 Scemering's, 27, 229. 

 Habitat, 27, 258. 

 Native names for. 258. 

 Thomson's, 27, 68, 80, 90, 104, 229, 233. 

 Approaching, 69. 

 Flesh of, 209. 

 Habitat, 27. 

 Markings of, 258. 

 Native names for, 258. 

 Tameness of, 68, 258. 

 Waller's, 80, 105, 107, 161, 162, 229, 258. 

 Native names for, 258. 

 Rivalry with Clarke's, 37. 

 Specialised feeding, 34, 258. 

 Gazi, 162, 283. 

 Genets : Habitat, 35. 



Spoor of, 142. 

 German boundary, 105, 106, 162, 163, 242, 256, 



259, 261, 283, 285. 

 Giraffe, 34, 51, 80, 129, 161, 162, 166, 229. 

 Coloration of, 50, 53. 

 Eyesight of, 259. 



