452 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
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. 
369 -371, 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, 
443 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 tsétsé fly to England, 113 ; 
his skill at rhinoceros hunting, 
116; returns to England, 
119; interviews an incapable 
lion hunter, 133 
Venadillo (South American 
deer), 427 
Victoria, Biitish 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 Nanni (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), 
6 
4. 
Wapiti (Cervus canadensis), 15, 
3953 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, 
385, 395, 418, 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, 160 
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., © 
II 
3 i 
Williamson, Andrew, on wapiti, — 
406, 407 
Willoughby, Sir John, 293 
