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INDEX. 



BOOKSELLER. 



Bookseller, a, not to be found in east- 

 ern or western Africa, 6+4. 



Boromo, present of Dr. Livingstone 

 to, 619. 



Bororo, a country north of the 

 Zambesi, 664. 



Boston's Fourfold State, early dis- 

 like of Dr. Livingstone to, 4. 



Bourbon, the island of, volcanoes 

 in, affecting Africa, 641, 



Bowdich, error in his map, 507 ; the 

 moshuka mentioned by, 534. 



Boyale, ceremony observed in 

 training girls, 149. 



Boyaloa, Makololo beer, 178 ; used 

 instead of yeast, 639. 



Braganza, Duke, district of Angola, 

 428 ; nature of the country, 429. 



Brazil, Balonda slaves exported to, 

 291 ; provides a market for An- 

 gola, 614; exportation of slaves 

 from Tete to, 631. 



Bread , extempore me thod of baki ng, 

 preferable to the Australian, 40. 



Bridge, extempore, building, 449. 



Brotherhood, ceremony establish- 

 ing, in Africa, 488. 



Buaze, the fibres of, a substitute for 

 flax, 645 ; districts where it is 

 found, 646. 



Buckland, Dean, letter to, on the 

 desiccation of the Bechuana 

 country, 528. 



Buffalo, the, its dependence on sup- 

 plies of water, 56 ; fight of a, 

 and lions, 139 ; superiority of, 

 to the lion, 142 ; birds attaching 

 themselves to, 252 ; hunting of 

 a wounded, 266 ; unsuccessful 

 chase, 486, 487 ; narrow escape 

 of Dr. Livingstone from, 491 ; 

 change of habits when disturbed 

 frequently, 515; escape of a 

 wounded, 561 ; the herd of 

 Menye-makaba, its feud with the 

 islanders, 574 ; sudden attack of, 

 near the I.oangwa, 588. 



Buffalo-birds, quick sight of, 546. 



Bunda, dialect spoken by the Mara- 

 bari, 218 ; the dialect of Angola, 

 382. 



Bungwe.a hill above Chicova, 604. 



Burial, strange custom of the Bechu- 

 ana with regard to, 90. 



Burns's appreciation of the cha- 

 racter of the Scotch peasant, 3. 



Burton, Captain, information hoped 

 for from, 477. 



Bush, thorny, on the Zouga, 580. 



Bushmen of the Kalahari desert, 

 47 ; the nomads of South Africa, 

 their character, habits, appear- 

 ance described, 49 ; their power 

 of enduring thirst, 52; of the 

 Matlomagan-yani, unlike the Ka- 

 lahari, 78 ; of Rapesh, superior 

 to the Kalahari, 165; their ele- 

 phant-hunts, 166 ; casting dice in 

 a dilemma, 170; good effects of 

 plenty on, 172. 



Butter, advantage of anointing the 

 skin with, 246. 



Butterfies, great variety of, ob- 

 served by Dr. Livingstone, 170 ; 

 of the Mopane country, 610 



Cabango, meeting with traders 

 going to, 359 ; Dr. Livingstone 



CANTO, 

 precedes Senhor Pascoal to, ar- 

 rested by rheumatic fever, 444 ; 

 cheapness, plenty of provisions 

 in the country round, 455 ; slave- 

 girl lost near, 455, 456 , latitude 

 of, cold at, 456; route determined 

 on, from, 450 ; departure from, 

 461. 



Cabinda, station of a sub-command- 

 ant, fine situation of, 383 ; view 

 from, 384. 



Cabazo, a singing bird tamed by 

 Katema's people, 324. 



Caconda, unlikelihood of a chain of 

 stations having existed from 

 Tete to, 531. 



Cactus, three varieties of South 

 African, 131. 



Cacuan, a fish of the Coanza, a sub- 

 stitute for money, 403. 



Caffres, the Cape, cattle stealing of, 

 2 ; war between Mosilikatze and 

 Dingaan referred to, 30 ; courage 

 of, superior to other African na- 

 tions, 32 ; ceremonies observed 

 by, qualifying youths to assume 

 the rank of men, 145 ; training 

 of youth, discipline observed 

 among, 147-149 ; belief of, in 

 natural religion, 158-159; sub- 

 divisions of the tribe, 201. 



Caffre-war, consequences of, more 

 apparent in England than in 

 Africa, 93 ; the four stages of a, 

 122 ; a hindrance to English pros- 

 perity in Africa, 679. 



Cahenda, missionary station of, 382 ; 

 the mountains of, 384. 



Calico, the money of Angola, 380 ; 

 the currency of Tete, 635. 



Calvi, the, a feeder of the Senza, 418. 



Cambambe, at, the Coanza, inna- 

 vigable, cotton of, 404 ; petro- 

 leum springs, 421 ; waterfall at, 

 426. 



Cambondo, planks cut with the axe 

 at, 387. 



Cambuslang, carboniferous lime- 

 stone of, quarryman's theory ac- 

 counting for the shells found in 

 the, 5. 



Camel-thorn, the, " shitim" of the 

 Old Testament, 113. 



Canaries, the, of African forests, 

 324 ; heard in the Banyai coun- 

 try, 624. 



Candido, Senhor, geographical in- 

 formation obtained from, 640, 641. 



Candumba, dairy at, 42S. 



Cannibalism in South Africa, 202. 



Cannon, respect of Africans for, 

 405. 



Canoes of the Bakoba, 64 ; of reeds 

 of the Bakurutse, 73; used by 

 the Makalaka in hunting leches, 

 204 ; Dr. Livingstone's fleet of, 

 on the Leeambye, 211 ; of mot- 

 sintsela wood, 232 ; difficulties 

 in managing, 237, 238 ; bark, of 

 the Chikapa, 355 ; hunting, of 

 the Balonda, 486 ; strength and 

 size of, built at Senna, 653. 



Canto e Castro, Antonio, Command- 

 ant of Golungo Alto, 385 ; ac- 

 companies Dr. Livingstone to 

 visit a deserted convent, 410 ; 

 illness of, his ill-regulated house- 

 hold, 413 ; entertainment to na- 

 tive Africans given by, his en- 



CATHEDRAL. 

 deavours to promote free labour, 

 414 ; Dr. Livingstone leaves, 

 417. 



Cape Colony, the resort of Bakwain 

 volunteer workmen, 32 ; pro- 

 montory of, its three zones de- 

 scribed, 94, 95 ; landscape of the 

 central zone of, 99 ; fauna of the 

 central zone of, 101 ; mischief of 

 restricting missionary efforts to, 

 116. 



Cape Government, short-sighted 

 policy of, with regard to trade, 

 374. 



Cape Town, Dr. Livingstone returns 

 to, after eleven years' absence, 98. 



the cranes at Government 



House, 253. 



Capuchin missionaries, fruit from 

 the seed sown by, 382 ; affection- 

 ate remembrance of, 410. 



Carneirado, the sickly season in 

 Angola, 418. 



Carpo, Arsenio de, Commandant, of 

 Ambaca, 382; provides an es- 

 cort, 383. 



Carriers of Angola; 380 ; their un- 

 trustworthiness, 442. 



Carvalho, Senhor, escape of rebels 

 from, 432. 



Cashan mountains, settlement of 

 Boers in the, 29. 



Cassange, at, dispute arranged by 

 Dr. Livingstone after the Mako- 

 lolo fashion, 184; Dr. Livingstone 

 directs his march towards 343 ; 

 finds the direct road to, 359 ; Dr. 

 Livingstone's entrance into, 368 ; 

 description of the village, 369 ; 

 curiosity excited by Dr. Living- 

 stone in, 370 ; character and 

 customs of the Portuguese of, 

 371, 372; view from, 372; high 

 prices received by Dr. Living- 

 stone's followers from the traders 

 oft 373 ; popular notion of the 

 habits of white men, 374 ; de- 

 parture from, 374, 375 ; return 

 to, 432 ; system of trading in, 

 435 ; unhealthiness of, 436. 



Cassange valley, geological forma- 

 tion of, 360 ; height of the eastern 

 acclivity bounding, 444. 



Cassava, or manioc, of the Barotse, 

 220. See Manioc. 



Carapatos, the tampans of Tete, 

 628. 



Caterpillars, edible, 42 ; nato, their 

 habits, transmutation of, an apt 

 illustration of the resurrection, 

 54 ; large edible, found in the 

 Unicorn's Pass, 150 ; large edible, 

 found on the mopane-tree, 164 : 

 used for poisoning arrows, 171 ; 

 with venomous spines, 610. 



Cat presented by Dr. Livingstone 

 to Sekeletu, 191; killed acci- 

 dentally, 217. 



Catende, frequent occurrence of the 

 name, 372. 



Cathcart, Sir George, proclaims the 

 independence of the Boers, 38 ; 

 treaty of, with the Transvaal 

 Boers, authorising the oppression 

 of the Griquas and Bechuanas, 

 106. 



Cathedral, the, of Loanda, impres- 

 sion made by service in, on the 

 Makololo, 392. 



