INDEX 



Accident to a Barotse hunter, 218 ; 

 caused while hunting, 218, 219 ; 

 caused by leopards in the Man- 

 yema, 235 ; to Msiambiri, 253 



Agouti, 121 ; flesh of the, 213 



Ammunition pouches, 11 



Angoni, country of the, 163 



Animals, soft-skinned, 8 ; massive, 

 8 ; inhabiting central Africa, 1 ; 

 difficulty of rearing, in a moving 

 camp, 118, 119 ; which do not 

 drink, 194; at drinking - places, 

 195 ; which destroy snakes, 224 ; 

 of the Congo, 231-240. 



Ant-eater, 67, 68 ; scaly, 194 



Antelopes (see eland, waterbuck, 

 hartebeest, etc.) scenting lion, 

 173, 189 ; at drinking-places, 195 ; 

 flesh of small, 213 



Ants (carnivorous), 37, 38 ; in your 

 sugar, 198 ; black, 199 



Armament, 1-4 



Aroangwa river, 199, 201 



Ava (steamboat), 14 



Baboon (cynocephalus), killed, 193 

 Barotses (land of the), 199 ; native 



hunter, 203 ; hunts in the land of 



the, 241, 242 

 Bees, nest of, 126 

 Bengal lights, 13, 150 

 Bertrand, duties of, 16 ; arrival 



with, 15 ; references to, 16, 52, 



55, 174, 189, 215. 

 Biltong, making of, 37, 57 

 Birds at drinking-places, 194 

 Boots for hunting, 11 ; for walking, 



11 

 Borely, duties of, 16 ; arrival with, 



15 ; references to, 16, 35, 58, 65, 



215 



Brigade (information, research), 25, 

 60, 163, 164, 165, 175 



Buffaloes at Chiromo, 28, 29 ; best 

 season for, 34 ; tracks made by, 

 36 ; hunting, 36, 37, 75 ; strata- 

 gem with, 76 ; measurements of, 

 77 ; habits of, 75, 176 ; at drink- 

 ing-places, 195 ; flesh of, 212, 

 213 ; description of Congo, 233 



Bullets, varieties of, 5, 6 ; incon- 

 veniences of explosive, 7 ; advan- 

 tages of expansive, 7, 8 ; "577 " 

 express, 8 ; various, 9 ; small 

 calibre, 5, 6 ; force of "577," 9 



Bushbucks killed, 141 ; flesh of, 213 



Bushmen, use of, in Austral Africa, 

 18 



Camp, winter, at Chiromo, 17 ; 



Instalation of a, 35, 55, 62, 65 ; 



rainy mornings at the, 35, 50, 65 ; 



return to, 60 ; Niarugwe, 62 ; 



novel door for a, 66 

 Carnivora, necessity of skinning 



rapidly, 78 ; intestines of, 192 ; 



absence of, 223 

 Cartridges, number of, taken with 



the expedition, 4, 5 ; varieties of, 



6 ; inconvenience of refilling, 6 ; 



reserve, 11 

 Chiperoni (mountain), expedition at, 



32 

 Chiromo, arrival at, 17 ; scarcity of 



game at, 28 

 Congo, animals of the, 231-234 ; 



birds of the, 240 ; a country for 



sport, 240 

 Crocodile, alleged impenetrable scales 



of the, 9 ; hunting the, 33 ; con- 

 tents of stomach of, 33, 34 ; length 



of, 34 ; flesh of, 213 



