INDEX. 



707 



RIDER. 



Rider, Alfred, death of, his sketch 

 of Lake Ngami, 75. 



Rio Janeiro, galleons built at Mas- 

 sangano crossed to, 404 ; fowls 

 given to Dr. Livingstone's men, 

 439 ; negroes taught carpentry 

 in, 662. 



River system of Lake Ngami, 67, 

 68 ; of the Zambesi and Congo 

 feeders, explained, 473, 474. 



Rivers, African, outlets of ancient 

 lakes flowing to the sea through 

 narrow fissures, 528 ; furrow 

 beds of, 528, 529 ; network of, 529. 



Rocks, disintegrated by an aquatic 

 plant, 238. 



Rosse, Lord, Boer's opinion of the 

 object of his telescope, 36. 



Ruddiman's Rudiments of Latin, 

 Dr. Livingstone's first earnings 

 spent in the purchase of, 3. 



Rutherford, Mr., a merchant of 

 Cape Town, promoting trade with 

 Makololo, 120. 



Sabbath, the African, 235. 



Sabia, a river of Manica, 



Sacrifices, human, in Africa, 317. 



St. Hilaire, Geoffrey, describes the 

 crocodile's toothpicker, 239. 



St. John, Mr., the siksak men- 

 tioned by, 239. 



St. Paul de Loando, western ter- 

 minus of Dr. Livingstone's last 

 journey, 94 ; population, public 

 buildings of, 394 ; harbour, 394, 

 395; merchants of, custom-house 

 arrangements unfavourable to 

 trade, 395 ; decrease of the slave- 

 trade, 396 ; customs revenue of, 

 438 note. 



St. Philip de Benguela, proposed as 

 the terminus of Dr. Livingstone's 

 journey, 227. 



Sakandala, Sunday spent at his 

 village, 359. 



Saloisho, a hill range abounding in 

 iron ore, 302 ; the iron ore of, 485. 



Salt, value of, as an article of diet, 

 26, 27 ; obtained by burning the 

 tsitla, 270 ; crystals of, a medium 

 of exchange, 407 ; hardly to be 

 found between Angola and the 

 Zambesi, 600. 



Saltpans of Nchokotsa, mirage on 

 the, 62 ; of Nwetwe and Chuantsa, 

 77, 78. 



Salutation, mode of, in Africa, 274 ; 

 the Londa fashion of, 276 ; Ma- 

 hometan and Christian, observed 

 among the Balonda, 321 ; de- 

 grading mode of, among the Ba- 

 toka, 551 ; practised by Sema- 

 lembue's tribe, 567. 



Sambanza, Manenko's husband and 

 spokesman, 276 ; his sense of 

 dignity, 277; undertakes the 

 office of purveyor, 287 ; intro- 

 duces Dr. Livingstone to Shinte, 

 291 ; his oration, 292 ; tipsy, 299, 

 300 ; his last interview with Dr. 

 Livingstone, becomes Pitsane's 

 blood-relation, 488. 

 Samoana, Nyamoana's husband, his 

 dress and arms, 273 ; important 

 part played by, in conference, 

 274; insulted 'by Masiko, 278; 

 his wish to propitiate Dr. Living- 



SEBITUANE. 



stone, 281 ; his death before Dr. 

 Livingstone's return, 482. 



San Salvador, ancient mission at, 

 427. 



Sand-martins, not migratory, 249. 



Sand rivers of Africa described, 

 598. 



Sandstone, grey, districts with sub- 

 stratum of, 603, 604 ; potholes 

 frequent in ridges of, 625. 



Sanshureh, the, flooded, a bar to 

 Dr. Livingstone's progress, 174; 

 passage by, to Linyanli, free 

 from tsetse, 227. 



Sansawe, a Bashinje chief, sends to 

 demand tribute, 361 ; his inter- 

 view with Dr. Livingstone, 362 ; 

 the spokesman's answer to his 

 threats, 363; treats Dr. Living- 

 stone, on his return, with polite- 

 ness, 443 ; presents from the 

 Pombeiros to, 444. 



Santuru, chief of the Barotse, 

 his mounds submerged by the 

 river, 216; his fondness for ani- 

 mals, 217 ; never visited by white 

 men, ib. ; interdicted the slave- 

 trade, 218 ; mound of his mother, 

 219; his policy not followed by 

 his son, 264 ; mounds constructed 

 by him, 314 ; disputes of his 

 sons, 489 ; contempt of his an- 

 cients for Makololo parvenus, 

 497. 



Sanza, arrival at, 379; near the 

 source of the Coanza, 426 ; no 

 seed-wheat found at, 429. 



Sarsaparilla, grows from Londa to 

 Tete, 636. 



Scholz, Commandant, takes Se- 

 chele's children as slaves, 1 25. 



Schools, mission, favourably re- 

 garded by the natives, 41. 



Schut, Mr., discreet judgment of 

 the Makololo, in his shop, 393; 

 present from, 419. 



Scotland, the Kirk of, Dr. Living- 

 stone's early education in, 3 ; 

 school system of, 3, 4 ; prejudice 

 of coal -miners against, west 

 winds in, 436. 



Scott, Walter, quotation from, 1. 



Sea, theory of its line in old times, on 

 the east coast of Africa, 625, 626. 



Season, rainy, commencement of 

 the, 513. 



Sebastopol, news of its fall received, 

 627. 



Sebituane, his power and influence, 

 68 ; Dr. Livingstone's anxiety to 

 visit him, 69 ; proposed visit to, 

 74 ; plans disconcerted, 75 ; pre- 

 sents of, to hasten the coming of 

 the white men, 76 ; his meeting 

 with Dr. Livingstone, 83; ap- 

 pearance, character of, described, 

 84; sketch of his life, 84-86; 

 Tlapane's prophecy to, S7 ; bis 

 hospitality, 89 ; illness and death 

 of, 89, 90; appointment of, with 

 regard to the succession to the 

 chieftainship, 179; his quarrel 

 with Mpepe, 180; fate of bis 

 wives, 185; tribes subjugated by, 

 197 ; prowess of Barotse soldiers 

 trained by, 497 ; tales of, and the 

 Baloka, 517 ; rich spoil won by, 

 from the Batoka, 527 ; his vain 

 efforts to abolish a Butoka custom, 



SEKEI.ETU. 

 532 ; the Makololo paradise won 

 and lost by, 541; followed Pin- 

 gola in the liatoka country, 554 ; 

 his tribute of njefu, 663. 



Sebola Makwaia, visited by Ben- 

 Habib, 502; her village betrayed 

 to Sekeletn, 503. 



Sechele, Dr. Livingstone's first resi- 

 dence in his country, 9; esta- 

 blished in his chieftainship by 

 help of Sebituane, 14; converted 

 to Christianity, his learning to 

 read, 16 ; proposal of, to convert 

 his people, 17; his baptism, 18; 

 a rain-doctor, 22 ; punishes Kake, 

 35 ; resists the Boers, 37 ; his 

 rights of chiftainship, 42 ; enmity 

 of the Boers to, his faults in 

 their eyes, 44 ; peculiar relations 

 of, to Sekomi, 45; joins Dr. Liv- 

 ingstone on his second journey to 

 the north, 74 ; his negotiations 

 with Lechulatebe, 75, readiness 

 of, to trade in ivory, 77 ; letter 

 of, to Mr. Moffat, injuries of the 

 Boers against, 118-119 ; his reso- 

 lution to claim justice from the 

 Queen, 120; obliged to return 

 from the Cape to his own country, 

 the missionary of his people, 

 121; follows Dr. Livingstone 

 into the cave Lohaheng, 124 ; 

 grants peace to the Boers, 125; 

 his experiments on "gun-medi- 

 cine," 258. 



Secbu, ceremony qualifying boys 

 to take rank as men, 146. 



Sects, Christian, a hindrance to the 

 spread of Christianity, 116. 



Sekelenke, an Ambonda chief, vas- 

 sal of Masiko, avoids Dr. Living- 

 stone, 269; passes his camp, 270. 



Sekeletu, Sebituane's successor, his 

 reception of Dr. Livingstone, 

 173; history of his accession to 

 the chieftainship, 1 79 ; plot of 

 Mpepe and the slave-traders 

 against, disconcerted, 180-182 ; 

 ground of his objection to Chris- 

 tianity, 184, 185; his learning to 

 read, 188, 189 ; present of, to Dr. 

 Livingstone, 189 ; calf of a fine 

 breed given by Dr. Livingstone 

 to, 191; his liberality to Dr. 

 Livingstone, 196; tribute re- 

 ceived by, 197, 198- quarrel of, 

 with Lechulatebe, 198-200; 

 leaves Linyanti with Dr. Living- 

 stone, 203 ; manners of his court, 

 204 ; ceremonial reception of, 

 205 ; assures himself of Dr. Liv- 

 ingstone's attachment, 207 ; 

 yields precedence to Sebituane's 

 comrades, 208 ; his visit to 

 'Mpepe's country, execution of 

 'Mpepe's father, 215; rejoined 

 by Dr. Livingstone, 224; his 

 policy towards northern tribes, 

 245 ; profitable sale of his tusks 

 at Cassange, 373; Dr. Living- 

 stone's resolution to reconduct 

 his people to, 390,391 ; presents 

 from the Portuguese government 

 to, 397 ; death of the horse pre- 

 sented to, 415; Dr. Livingstone 

 advised to reprove, 492; ar- 

 rangements made by, for pro- 

 moting trade, 501 ; his forays 

 during Dr. Livingstone's absence, 



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