438 | BIG GAME SHOOTING 
ASS 
Assineboia, 394 
Athi plains, East Africa, 168, 
289, 312 
Athi river, 169, 270, 304 
BABOONS, 136 
Bad Lands, North America, 381 - 
Bagamoyo, East Africa, 166 
Bakaa, the (South African 
tribe), 74, 82, 152 
Bakalahari desert, South Africa, 
87, 126, 130 
Ba-Katla, the (South African 
tribe), 47; 56, 152 
Ba-Katla, valley of the, South 
Africa, 41 
Baker, Lady, 34 
Baker, Sir Samuel W., his bio- 
graphical sketch of William 
Cotton Oswell, 26-31; urges 
_ Oswell to write his sporting 
career, 32; experience with 
. the Purdey gun, 34 ; on ele- 
phant shooting, 81; on the 
price of elephant ivory, 85 
note; on lions, 94, 324, 328 ; 
on native methods of snaring 
game, 257 
Ba-Lala, the (degenerate Kafirs), 
- 86, 100, 123 
Baldwin, Captain, on bears, 373 
Ba-Mungwato, the (South Afri- 
can tribe), 66, 71-73, 123, 
152 
Baobab tree (Adansonia digi- 
tata), 83 
Ba-Quaina, the (South African 
tribe), 78, 112, 133, 135 
Barolongs, the (South African 
tribe), 107 
Barren Ground caribou (C. 
tarandus arcticus), 396, 418 ; 
musk ox, 430-434 
Barter goods for East Africa, 
179-181 
Baths, portable, 162 
Battery, for big game shooting, 
28, 33, 155-158, 182, 219, 
235, 246, 268, 273, 284, 308, 
332 
BIN 
Ba-Wangketsi, the (South Afn- 
can tribe), 56, 59, 112, 135, 
149 
Bears, North American, 19, 21- 
243; various species, 351: 
the grizzly, 351; colour, 
3533 claws, 354; dens, 356; 
hibernation, 356: cinnamon, 
355, 356, 362: food, 357- 
360 ; nocturnal habits, 3573 
size and weight, 360, 361; - 
ferocity, 362; sight, 363; 
vitality, 364 ; — 305- 
368: the black 351, 
353-3573 agri of hide, 309 : 
use of dogs in hunting, 372; 
habits, 374; tracks of the — 
grizzly and black, 374 ; skins, 
375 
Beaver, 408 
Bechuana, the, as elephant — 
hunters, 110; their mode of ~ 
trapping animals in the hopo — 
(pit), 112 
Bechuanaland, 314 
Bedson, Colonel, 376, 380 
Bedsteads and bedding for a © 
sporting expedition in East 
Africa, 162 
Beetles, horned, 323 
Bengal, 373 
‘Big Game of North America,’ 
349; 353, 392 
Big game shooting, its justifica- 
tion, 2; wholesale slaughter, 
33 qualities of a successful — 
sportsman, 5 ; advantage ofa — 
knowledge of natural history, -: 
6; hints on stalking, 8; ‘sign,’ — 
10; the Indian scout, If; | 
sighting game, 12; dealing with 
wounded game, 13, 15; killing 
and packing venison, 15; still 
hunting,17,18; language ofthe — 
woods, 19; woodland shooting, — | 
£20; night shooting, 22 ; use of 4 
dogs, 24 
Bighorn (Ovis montana), North a 
' American, its haunts, 381; — 
. stalking, 387 ; weight, 389 
Binocular glasses, 15 
