Index 



Pdre Lens, 147 



Photography, outfit for tropical work, 



difi&culties of, etc., ch. xvii ; 266 



et seq. 

 Pieters, Mons., 24 

 Platinum, 216 

 Pombe (native beer), 159 

 Ponthierville, 213 

 Porters, native, training of, i8, 19 ; 



Achewa, 235 ; Angoni, 235 ; Barundi, 



27 ; Batwa, 50 ; Mhutu, 83 ; Muganda, 



20, 21; Swahli, 18, 19; Waha, 19; 



Wahutu, 77; Wanandi, 134 

 Portuguese Angola, native miners of, 2 

 Potto Lemur, 157 

 Pygmies, as trackers, 227 ; dance of, 152 ; 



distribution of, 162 ; home life of, 164 ; 



hunt, 149 ; language of, 162 ; music of, 



152 ; weapons of, 164 

 Python, 36 ; fight with bushbuck, 37 



Railways. Cape to Cairo, 2 ; Kigoma- 

 Tabora Line, 17 ; Kinshasa, plans for, 

 213 ; Lobito Bay, 213 



Rainfall statistics, see Appendix, 273 



Rainy season, the, a warning, 34 



Raphia palms, ill. facing p. 7 



Reed beds, 117 



Reed, buck, in 



Rhinoceros, range of, xxxi 



Rhodes Cecil, favourite lion story of, 

 123 



Rice, 216 



Rift Valley Mountains, 112, 129 



Rinderpest, 98 



Rivers. Akanyaru, 35, 38 ; Bua, 229 ; 

 Butahu, 134 ; Chambezi, 243 ; Epulu, 

 188 ; Funda, 52 ; Ibima, 147 ; Itoa, 

 147, 176 ; Kagera, 35, 92 ; Kalambo, 

 12; Kalengwe, 5; Kalule, 5 ; Kamsonsa, 

 136; Karyamwamba, 136; Lualaba;, 

 I ; Luangwa, 238 ; Lufubu, 3 ; Lukuga, 

 8 ; Luvua, 8, 227 ; Lindi, 125, 194 ; 

 Malagarasi, 16, 18, 19, 23, 26 ; Njawa- 

 rongo, 47 ; Oso, 103 ; ,Ruchugi, 16 ; 

 Ruchuru, 98 ; Ruindi, 102 ; Ruvubu, 

 34; Sabaka, 23; Semliki, 124; Shari, 

 182 



Rowland Ward & Co., 228 



Ruanda, Belgian occupation of, 93, 94 ; 

 King of, 25, 27, 35, 38 ; races of, 40 



Rubber, cost of, 194 ; in North Central 

 Congo Basin, 216 



Rubengera, 47, 48, 49 



Ruchugi River, 16 



Ruchuru (Government station), 98, 99 ; 

 plains, fruits and flowers of, loi ; 

 River, 100, 10 1 



Rugari, 96 



Ruindi Plains, 91 ; River (unmapped), 

 I02, 105 



Ruvubu River, 34 



Ruwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the 

 Moon), 28, 122, 127 ; ascent of, 134 

 et seq.; earlier climbers of, 134; flora, 

 136; insects and animals on, 143; 

 records of previous climbers found, 140, 

 141 



Sabaka River (haunt of Big Game), 23 



Sabinyo Volcano, 70 



Sacre Coeur Mission, 133 



Salt mines and works, 18 ; Pygmies' love 



of, 149 

 Saurian, belief in existence of gigantic, 



191 

 Schweinfurth (explorer), xxiii 

 Semliki Forest, 146 et seq. ; River, 124, 



127 ; Valley, tsetse flies in, 127 

 Senecios, 74, 76, 88, 138 

 Senguli Gold Mines, 185, 216 

 Serimani (native chief), 175 

 Settlers, need for encouragement of and 



opportunities for, 4, 58 

 Shari River, 182 

 Sharpe, Sir A., 53 ; description of volcanic 



eruption by, 66 

 Signalling, drum, 148, 168 ; trumpet, 



148, 177 

 Sleeping Sickness, extermination of Baluba 



Natives by, 7 ; Hospital at Mbeni, 130, 



263 ; in Luanga Valley, 237 

 Society of Human Leopards, 206 et seq. 

 Spicer-Simpson, Commander, 9 

 Spiders (enemies of moths), 256 

 Squirrel, flying, 166 

 Stanley and Sir H. H. Johnston, 154 

 Stanley Falls, 210 

 Stanley Mountains, 142 

 Stanleypool, 222 

 Stanleyville, 99, 210, 213 

 Steamers : Baron Dhanis, 13 ; Baron 



Janssen, 6 ; Baron von Gotzen, 14 ; 



Semois, 212 

 Storks, 13, ill. facing p. 94 

 Sundew, African, 256 

 Superstitions, see native 

 Swahili natives, 19 

 Swamps, papyrus, 7, 38 

 Swifts (enemies of butterflies), 256 



Tabora Railway, 9, 92 



Talbot, G. (Curator of Hill Museum), 



acknowledgment to, xiv, 248, 

 Tanagra Collection, xxvi 



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