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INDEX. 



CONGO, 

 of the Kasai, 336 ; of the Quango 

 valley, 360. 



Congo, Prince of, a Christian, 426 ; 

 title of the king, Christianity 

 little understood in, 427. 



or Zaire, the, receives the 



rivers of Angola, 443 . 



Congress, African, in Londa, 273- 

 279. 



Cookery, Barotse, 251. 



Copper anklets, trade between 

 Shinte's and Cazembe's people 

 in, 305. 



'Cottar's Saturday Night,' allu- 

 sion to, 3. 



Cotton, two species of, in Africa, 

 71 ; mill, a myth to the African, 

 271 ; grown by Mozinkwa's wife, 

 314; of Tete not equal to the 

 Angolese, 644, 645 ; fitness of 

 Eastern Africa for its cultivation, 

 675. 



Cotton-cloth eagerly sought by the 

 people of Mokwanka, 307. 



" Cotton ground " in Africa, 204. 



Cottou-spinning, advantages of, hi 

 Dr. Livingstone's early educa- 

 tion, 5 ; universal in Angola, 399. 



Cotton-trees, perennial, in Angola, 

 ignorance of their value, 415. 



Cowan, Dr., his whole party cut off 

 by fever in the expedition of 

 1808, 14. 



Cranes of the Leeambye, 253. 



Crassulas of Cape Colony, 99. 



Craters of the Bamangwato hills, 

 149. 



Creels, used by the Balonda as fish- 

 traps, 312. 



Creepers of the desert, capable of 

 supplying moisture, 47 ; follow- 

 ing the sun, 345. 



Crickets, African, 542. 



Crystals, dissolved by a running 

 stream, 233. 



Cuckoo, an African species of, 559. 



Cucumbers, scarlet, of the Kalahari, 

 description of, 47, 48. 



Culloden, battle of, death of Dr. 

 Livingstone's great-grandfather 

 at, 1. 



Culpeper's Herbal, Dr. Livingstone's 

 early study of, 5. 



Cumming, Gordon, his visits to 

 Kolobeng, 151; truth of his ad- 

 ventures vouched for, 152. 



Cupping practised by Bakwain doc- 

 tors, 129, 130. 



Cuvier testifies to Aristotle's know- 

 ledge of natural history, 563. 



Dalama, native name of gold, 597. 

 Dambarari, probably the Bambala 



of tradition, 532 ; in old times a 



gold-field, 637. 

 Dance, Makalolo, in welcome of 



Sekeletu, 225. 

 Dande, petroleum springs at, 421 ; 



tribes between the Coanza, and, 



subject to the Portuguese, 429. 

 Darfur, cause of its aridity, 477, 



478. 

 Darter, the snake bird of African 



rivers, described, 240. 

 Deformity, rarely observed in 



Africa, 577. 

 Deity, native names of a supreme, 



641. 



EDUCATION. 



Deluge, sole tradition of the, in 



Africa, 327. 

 Desiccation of the country, evidences 

 of, in South Africa, 54. 



Dick, Dr. Thomas, the works of, 

 debt of Dr. Livingstone to, 4. 



Dila, river of. See Mozuma. 



Dilolo, Lake, description of. Dr. 

 Livingstone prevented surveying, 

 324; tradition, giving the origin 

 of its name, 327 ; the watershed 

 of eastern and western rivers, 

 473, 474 ; reviving influence of, 

 479 ; latitude of, 480 ; fording the 

 southern branch of, 482. 



Dingaau, a Caffre chief, expelled 

 Mosilikatze from the Magalies- 

 berg country, 30. 



Diseases found in South Africa, 

 127-129 ; to which South African 

 wild beasts are subject, 135, 136; 

 carried by infection, 649. 



Disputes, negro, rarely end in fight- 

 ing, 466. 



Distillation of insects, 21, 416, 417 ; 

 mode of, practised at Tete, 630. 



Diviner, a, consulted as a physician, 

 433 ; disconcerted by Dr. Living- 

 stone, 525. 



Doctors, African, not invariably 

 quacks, 130 ; aMakololo drowned 

 in the Leeambye, 212. 



Dolomite, on Taba Cheu, 548 ; on 

 hill ranges, seen from Mabue- 

 asula, 570. 



Dongolo, a fruit of the Bambiri, 

 625. 



Donkeys, introduced into Central 

 Africa, 512. 



Drought, effects of, in Africa, 20, 

 21 ; submission and energy of the 

 Bakwains in time of, 25, 26. 



Drum worship in Londa, 282 ; the 

 Balonda, described, 292, 293 ; ser- 

 vice required from, at funerals. 

 316; beating, an intimation of 

 death, 624. 



Drunkenness, not unknown in 

 Londa, 299 ; the vice of Angola, 

 411 ; an euphuism for, 602 ; temp- 

 tations to, in Tete, 630. 



Dua, the, trial by ordeal on, 434. 



Due, the, a sand stream, 611. 



Duiker, the, its ability to resist 

 thirst, 56. 



Dunovan, Captain, died of fever, 

 descending the Limpopo, 14. 



Du Prat, Chevalier, his letters of 

 recommendation, 367. 



Dura saifi, holcus sorghum, beer 

 made from, 186 ; principal grain 

 of the Makalaka, 197. 



Dutch clergy in Africa, their re- 

 venues, 34, note. 



Dutch, the, expulsion of, from An- 

 gola, 406. 



Dye-stuffs, native of Africa, wild 

 indigo, 71; orchilla weed, 266; 

 Columba root, found near Tete, 

 used by the Americans, 636. 



Dykes, granite, breaking through 

 the overlying strata, 570. 



Earthquakes, no tradition of, in the 

 Barotse country, 497 ; near Tete 

 and Senna, 641. 



Eclipse of the sun, 415. 



Education, benefits of, to the work- 



EXPORTS. 

 ing classes in Scotland, 1 ; pro- 

 moted by comfort, 27 ; system of, 

 among Becbuanas and Caffres, 

 147-149 ; Banyai system of, 618. 

 Egyptians, customs of, resembling 

 the Makololo, 195; monuments, 

 seeming imitations of faces on, 

 carved in bark by the Bolonda, 

 304 ; ancient, resemblance of the 

 Londa tribes to, 379 ; ancient, 

 spinning and weaving of, prac- 

 tised in Angola, 399 ; resemblance 

 of the Banyai to, 624. 

 Eland, the, its beauty, 43 ; its power 

 of resisting thirst, 56; cow, shot 

 by Dr. Livingstone, bearing scars 

 from lion claws, a new variety, 

 210; unable to endure a hard 

 chase, 257 ; tracks of, near Ca- 

 bango, 455. 



Elephants, their sagacity in avoid- 

 ing pitfalls, 70 ; of the Zouga, 

 their peculiarities, 71 ; tactics of, 

 when hunted, 76 ; dangers of 

 hunting, 152, 153; Bushman mode 

 of hunting, compared with Griqua, 

 Boer, and English, 165, 166; the 

 mohonono eaten by, 167 ; their 

 fondness for vines, 169 ; size of, 

 in the hot central region of Africa, 

 438, 439 ; variety without tusks 

 on the Kaloma, 545 ; separation 

 of, into distinct herds, 547 ; their 

 manner of feeding, 550, 551 ; hunt 

 of a cow and calf by Dr. Living- 

 stone's men, 561-563; African, 

 compared to Indian, great size of 

 the ear in African, 563 ; African, 

 tamed by the ancients, 563, 564 ; 

 differences in height of, 564 ; 

 daintiness of, in feeding, 565, 566 ; 

 cow with three calves, seen on the 

 Chiponga, 573 ; killed from stages 

 by the Banyai, 575 ; extraordi- 

 nary tenacity of life in, danger of 

 shooting, on foot, 579 ; Mr. 

 Oswell's hairbreadth escape from 

 a wounded, 580 ; escape of, by 

 swimming, 598, 599 ; hunt in the 

 Banyai country, 607, 608 ; the 

 Mokoronga eaten by, 611. 



Elevation of the country, fallacious 

 criteria of the, 283, 284. 



Embarrah, the chief feeder of Lake 

 Ngami, 67. 



Empacasseiros, secret society of the 

 Bengo, 411. 



English, importance of speaking, 

 in missionary settlements, 8*; 

 law, ground of the Boers objec- 

 tion to, 29 ; fidelity to engage- 

 ments, confidence of Africans in, 

 151, 152 ; manufactures, Mambari 

 history of, 271 ; esteem, in "which 

 they are held in Eastern Africa, 

 596, 597 ; disgrace brought on the 

 name by niggardly travellers, 

 601 ; difficulty in speaking, after 

 long disuse, 682. 



Esquimaux, contrasted with the 

 South Africans, 552. 



Euphorbia, poison of the, its effects 

 on men and animals, 171 ; insects 

 feeding on, 609. 



Exports, table of, from Angola 437 

 note; of Tete, before the esta- 

 blishment of the slave-trade, 630. 



