INDEX 



541 



Puff adder up a Dutchman's trouser 

 leg, 229 

 <iders, deaths by, 230 



egg and young, 222 

 how they kill their 



prey, 225 

 how the young are 



born, 221 

 in captivity, 223 

 poison apparatus, 237 

 the sexes, 229 

 vary in colour, 229 

 Python, an adventure, 71 

 and buck, 74 

 and buck-hunting incident, 



72 

 and his boy chum, 464 

 and his boy friend, 64 

 and Klip Dassie, 70 

 and the cock, 72 

 an exciting adventure, 69 

 a sensation, 65 

 constricting a buck, 66 

 figure and skeleton of, 



59 

 head of, 58 

 smashing crockery, 77 

 steak, 79 



swallowing a bird, 73 

 Pythonadipsas, 119 

 Pythons, 57 



and kafir superstitions, 65 

 artificial feeding, 75 

 Pythons' eggs, 70 

 Pythons' fasting powers, 78 

 legs, 78 



in Cape Colony, 79 

 on a krantz, 67 

 on the watch, 63 

 their haunts and diet, 60 



R. 



Red-lipped or Herald snake, 134 

 Reptiles living and extinct, 10 

 Rhachiodontinae, 90 

 Rhampiophis, 121 

 Ringhals, 175 



experiments with, 378 

 cobra, 183 



and young, 184^ 193 

 bespattered glass with venom, 



188 

 consequences of being bitten, 



191 

 effect of the venom upon the 

 eyes, 190 



Ringhals, experiments with the 

 venom, 190 



fierce and aggressive, 187 



how one was captured, 185 



how they spit, 189 



how to hold it, 192 



how we photographed him, 

 186 

 Roode-lip slang, 134 

 Royal Python of Senegambia, 281 



Salivary glands and teeth, 290 

 Salt-water snakes, 43, 157 

 Sand snakes, 124 

 Scarifying, how to do it, 404 

 Schaapsteker, a battle, 132 

 Schaapstekers, 130 

 and eggs, 131 

 Scorpions, 326 

 Sebiba cure, 315 

 Secondary treatment of snake-bite, 



426 

 Sense of smell, 20 

 Sepedon, 165 



Serum, and how to get it, 395 

 FitzSimons' outfit, 408 

 how to inject it into arm, 

 406 

 into leg, 409 

 into vein, 419 

 instructions in brief, 426 

 its effects, 396 

 polyvalent, 424 

 treatment and its imita- 

 tions, 399 

 treatment of animals, 413 

 treatment of snake bite, 

 390 

 Shield snake, 195 

 Shields on snakes' heads, 48 

 Simocephalus, 85 

 Smelling out a man, 65 

 Snake blood and gall cure, 336 

 catcher at work, 251 

 charmers, 246 



at work, 248 

 charming explained, 249 

 eating bird, 339 

 houses, 47 



knowledge in brief, 463-480 

 stones, 336 

 venom, 352 



effect if swallowed, 

 338 



