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INDEX. 



THAU, 

 of imports during five months, 

 635 ; profit, staples of its trade 

 ■with the interior, price of pro- 

 visions, 636 ; extent of gold-pro- 

 ducing country round, 638 ; rich 

 crops of, irrigation unneeded, 639 ; 

 earthquakes near, 641 ; state of 

 education and religion in, 643, 

 614 ; annual floods of the Zam- 

 besi at, 644 ; cotton grown at, 

 manufaciure of oil, 64 5; medical 

 resources of, 647 ; funeral at, 

 652; departure from, 654. 



Thau, the Egyptian, resembling the 

 Bakwain God, 124. 



Thermometer, heights of the, por- 

 tending rain, 160; heights at 

 Unku, 167 ; heights of, in eastern 

 Africa, 624. 



Thirst, sufferings from, 79. 



Thorn-bearing plants of Africa, 345, 

 346. 



Thracians, njefu eaten by, 664. 



Thunder without clouds, 596. 



Thutsa, the salt spring of, 159. 



Tianyane, anew species of antelope, 

 209. 



Tiger, the, India trap for, 138. 



Tipoia, a hammock, 375. 



Tlakueapitse, a quickly - fading 

 African wild flower, 54 2. 



Tlapano.a prophet of the Makololo, 

 86,87. 



Tlolo, transgression, 552; various 

 accidents accounted,«77. 



Tlomtla, a dead mowana at, 162. 



Toads, fascinated by fire, 145 ; two 

 varieties of Batrachia, 487. 



Tobacco, plantations of, in Shinte's 

 town, 290 ; leaves dried, pounded 

 into snuff, 318 ; height of, plants 

 in Angola, 403. 



Toddy palm-tree, 411 ; cocoa-nut 

 palm, a substitute for yeast, 639. 



Tofulo, a hill seen from Zumbo, 

 586. 



Tolo, the, see koodoo, 56. 



Toluane, a plant useful in curdling 

 milk, 160. 



Tomba Ngama, volunteers 'the loan 

 of a canoe, 575. 



Tortoises, land, their habits, shells 

 prized by native Africans, 135. 



Totelo, the, toll demanded at, 335. 



Town, remains of a deserted Ba- 

 toka, 534. 



Trade in skins of the Bakalahari, 

 50; staples of the Portuguese 

 with the Balonda, 289. See Com- 

 merce. 



Traders dependent on missionaries, 

 33 ; English, offence given by, to 

 the Boers, 35 ; Boerish, in for- 

 bidden goods, 36; slave, usual 

 policy of, 181 : good linguists the 

 most successful, 191 ; native 

 Africans, 358, 359 ; half-caste, 

 meeting with a party of, from 

 Bibe, 359 ; native, bad system 

 pursued with, 502. 



Trap, the substratum of the Kuru- 

 man country, 112 ; fragments of 

 the old schists in, accounted for, 

 474. 



Travelling, privations of, in Africa, 

 42 ; precautions preserving health 

 in, 572 ; average day's march in, 

 615. 



Trees destroyed by long-continued 



TUSKS. 



inundation, 261 ; petrified on the 

 Chiponga, 572, 573 ; cause of 

 their scrubbiness near Tete, 625. 



Trocheamer, an instrument for 

 measuring progress, 59 note. 



Trogon, the, peculiar note of, 261. 



Trombeta, estate and plantations 

 of the sub-commandant at, 387, 

 388. 



Trotter, Admiral, newspapers re- 

 ceived from, 672. 



Trough form of the centre of Africa, 

 its geological structure explained, 

 474, 475. 



Tsepe, the springbuck, 103. 



Tsessebe, the, its tenacity'of life,257. 



Tsetse, on the banks of the Tau- 

 manakle, 75 ; encountered by 

 Dr. I.ivmgstone's party near the 

 Mababe, 79; described, 80; ani- 

 mals to which its bite is fatal, 

 effects of the bite, 81,83; pre- 

 cautionary measures against, 83 ; 

 on the Sanshureh, 174 ; ten oxen 

 lost by, 177 ; the Banyeti unable 

 to rear domestic animals on ac- 

 count of, 212 ; latitude of their 

 habitat on the Leeambye, 214 ; 

 Dr. Livingstone turned back by, 

 221 ; districts enclosing Linyanti, 

 227 ; connection of, with the ele- 

 phant, 260 ; cause' of Londa's 

 freedom from, 337 ; Londa only 

 of late years free from, 338 ; in 

 early times probably infested 

 Ionga Panza's country, 352 ; 

 found on the Lucalla, 404 ; near 

 the Makondo, 487 ; between Na- 

 meta and Sekhosi, 499 ; insect 

 preying on, ib. ; either bank of 

 the Zambesi, eastwards, infested 

 by, 507 ; patch passed by night, 

 515 ; on the banks of the Lekone, 

 527 ; night marches on account 

 of, 534; herds slaughtered by 

 Sebituane on account of, 548 ; on 

 the Chipongo, magnified drawing 

 of, 571 ; return of, with larger 

 game to the Zambesi, 575 ; former 

 pasture-grounds infested by, 583 ; 

 infest the country of the Bam- 

 biri, 606; the district of Tete 

 free from, 636. 



Tsipa, small African ocelot, 50. 



Tsitla, a root, used as a substitute 

 for corn, 80 ; mode of obtaining 

 salt from the, 270. 



Tuane, the lynx, 50. 



Tuba Mokoro, headman of Dr. 

 Livingstone's Barotse boatmen, 

 533. 



Tufa covering large districts of 

 country, 111, 112; changing to 

 limestone, 233 ; freshwater shells 

 in, evidences of the ancient 

 physiognomy of Africa, 527 . 



Turtles, water, good for food, 490. 



Tusks, elephant's, Lechulatube's 

 offer of, to Dr. Livingstone, 68 ; 

 his offer of, as price of a gun, 75 ; 

 Sekeletu'sgift of, 189 ; destroyed 

 by fire, 191 ; taken by Dr. Liv- 

 ingstone to exchange with the 

 Portuguese. 236; given by Sechele 

 for " gun medicine," 258 ; various 

 weights of, in Angola, 438, 439 ; 

 the heaviest, from Luba, 458 ; 

 increase in size on approaching 

 the equator, 564. 



WASHINGTON. 

 Tzo, the, a branch of the Embarrah, 

 67. 



Ue, the, a sand stream, 611; its 

 sandstone bank, 616. 



Ulva, birthplace of Dr. Living- 

 stone's father, 1 ; conversion of 

 the Roman Catholics of, 2. 



Unguesi, the, flows towards the 

 centre of Africa, 527 ; passage of, 

 geological structure of the coun- 

 try, 533. 



Unicorn's Pass, the, scenery of, 

 changed from old times, sketch 

 of the landscape, 150. 



Unku, the, verdure of, 167. 



Vaal River, the, noisy attrition of 

 rocks in, 598. 



Vardon, Major, his interest in Af- 

 rican discovery, 46; experiment 

 of, testing the virulence of tsetse 

 bites, 82; large horn brought to 

 England by, 85 note; letter of, 

 describing a battle between three 

 lions and a buffalo, 139, 140 

 note; nevvspeciesof the antelope 

 named after, 356 vote. 



Vegetable diet, bad effects of an ex- 

 clusive, 26. 



Vegetation, differences of, in the 

 same latitudes of Africa and Aus- 

 tralia, 97. 



Victoria falls, arrival of the Mate- 

 bele near, 499; an obstacle to 

 descending the Zambesi, 507 ; Dr. 

 Livingstone resolves to visit, 518 ; 

 leauty of the scene, 519 ; detailed 

 description of, 520, 521 ; fissure 

 in the rock described, 521 ; Bpray 

 columns, breadth of the river, 

 522; accessible part of the fis- 

 sure, period of its formation, 523 ; 

 superstitions connected with, 523, 

 524; Dr. Livingstone's garden 

 above, 525. 



Villages of the Barotse, built on 

 mounds, 314. 



Vinegar, an antidote to the Ngot- 

 uane poison. 113. 



Vines, with tuberous root, recom- 

 mended to the Cape farmers, 100 ; 

 grape-bearing, unexpected dis- 

 covery of, 169 ; varieties of wild, 

 on the Zambesi, 616. 



Vungwe or Mvungwe, the, rocky 

 hills, watershed of the sand rivu- 

 lets of East Africa, 610, 611. 



Wader, the crook-beaked, of the 

 Leeambye, its manner of feeding, 

 253. 



Waggon-travelling in Africa, 94. 



Wales, New South, fossil trees of, 

 found also in Africa, 573. 



Wallace, allusion to, 7. 



Walsh, Dr., leaves quinine for Dr. 

 Livingstone, 672. 



Wardlaw, Dr., Dr. Livingstone's 

 instructor in theology, 6. 



Wars, the slave-trade, or cattle- 

 stealing, invariably the cause of 

 African, 213. 



Washington, Captain, document 

 given by, for publication, 665 ; 

 information obtained from, on the 



