Index 



Leucoderma, i88 



Leverhulme, Lord, 214, 216 



Lewis (companion on elephant hunts), 

 238 et seq. 



Licences, Belgian game, 99 



Likasi, copper mines at, 3 ; railway- 

 development of, 3 



Lindi River, 125, 194 



Lions, Native superstitions re, 109 ; on 

 Ruindi Plains, 103, io6, 109 ; parental 

 affection of, 108 ; race suicide of, 107 



Lippens, Mons., Governor-General of B. 

 Congo, 214 



Lizards, small, ill. facing p. 6, 255 



Lobito Bay Railway, 213 



Loya Valley, 180 



Lualaba Valley and mines west of, i 



Lufira River, 3 ; Valley, 4 



Lufubu River, 3 ; Valley, 4 



Lukuga River, 8 



Luvua River, 8, 227 



Maduali, the (fetish of the Wabali), 202 

 Maji-ya-moto (boiling springs), 10 1 

 Malagarasi River, 23, 25, 26 

 Malfert, General, i6, 214 

 Mambela (secret society of Wabali tribes), 



195 et seq. ; ceremonies, religious rites, 



initiation of probationers, etc. 

 Mangoes, 193 

 Manika Plateau, agricultural conditions, 4 ; 



position and climate, 5 

 Marabou storks, 13 



Marriage (in Bafwasende district), 203 

 Marsula's Country (Cannibal area), 175 

 Matadi, 213 



Mayflies (on L. Edward), 116 

 Mbeni, 127; sleeping sicknesshospitalat, 1 30 

 Mbusi Bay, 51. 

 Mecklinburg, Duke of, 67 

 Meulemeester, Colonel de, 214 

 Mgahinga Volcano, 63, 70 

 Mhutu guide, 83 

 Mica mines, 30 

 Mikeno Volcano, description of, ill. facing 



p. 60, 69 ; ascent of, flora, 88 

 Minerals of B. Congo, 216 

 Miners, conditions of, etc., 2 

 Mines, Coal, 212, 216; cobalt, 216; 



copper, 3, 212; diamond, 213, 217; gold, 



I, 183, 185, 216; mica, 30; salt, 18; 



tin, 216 

 Mobira Woman, ill. facing p. 182. 

 Moera (a Wanandi chief), 147, 159. 163 

 Mohazi Lake, 36 

 Moho Lake, 102 



Monkeys, collection of skins of, 167 

 Moore, J. E. S., 12, 53, 67 



Mopani (tree resembling maidenhair), 239 



Mosquitos, at Kabalo, 8; in Ituri Forest, 

 187 



Moths, enemies of, 256 ; parasitic lavs3 of, 

 257 ; specimens new to science dis- 

 covered by Author, 280 



Moto Gold Mines, 216 



Moulaert, Colonel, 185, 214 



Mountain sickness, 142 



Mountains of the Moon, see Ruwenzori 

 Mts. 



Mount Stanley, 142 



Msinga, Sultan Juhi, 41, 42 ; visit to 

 harem of, 43 



Muganda boy, a, 20 



Mugera Mission, 31 



Muhavura Volcano, 63, 70 



Murunda, 49 



Mutanda Lake, 100 



Mweru Lake, 3, 8 



Namlagira, 79, 95, 100 



Nasasa (sacred bird of Wabali tribes), 200 



Native labour for mines, 2, 218, 219; 



market at Baira, 26 ; customs and 



superstitions re charms for babies, 173 ; 



death, 29, 158 ; heather, 145 ; lions, 109 ; 



rain, 97 ; pythons, 37 ; of Wabali 



Tribes, 196 et seq. 

 Neanderthaloid man, xxv, xxvii 

 Niansa (Nyansa), 39, 43, 44, 47 

 Nightjars (enemies of moths), 250 

 Niragongo Volcano, ascent of, 72 et seq. 



description of, 67 ; flora of, 73 

 Njawarongo River, 47 

 Njundo Mission, 52 

 Nyakasu escarpment, 28 



Oil palms, 7, 193 ; industry, 7, 216 

 Okapi, description of, 152; hunt, 150; 

 finding of, in Semliki Forest, 161 ; 

 range of, 133, 147 ; Sir H. H. John- 

 ston's account of his discovery of 



Ordnance Survey Maps, 35 

 Oso River, 103 

 Owen, Professor, xiii 

 Owls (enemies of moths), 256 



Palms, borassus, elais, ivory, nut, oil, 7 

 Palpalis (Glossinia) , see tsetse fly 

 Paltothyreus (stink ant), 255 

 Papyrus, 7, 38 

 Parrot, grey, 156 

 Pelicans, 121 

 Penghe, 192 



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