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INDEX. 



AFRICA, natural divisions of South, 66. 



Alligators, 174; nest of, 181. 



Ambaca, 258 ; natives of, 259, 295. 



Ambonda tribe, 284. 



Angola, want of roads, 261 ; native 

 population of, 277 ; state of agri- 

 culture, 285; climate, 293. 



Anklets, 185, 1.89, 



Anointing skin, 169, 185. 



Ant-eater, 114. 



Ant-hills, their size, 64, 120, 139, 

 361. 



Ants, black, 18, 90 ; red, 288 ; soldier, 

 351 ; white, 353 ; sagacity of, 222. 



Arabs from Zanzibar, 153. 



Avoset, 172. 



Bakalahari race, 36, 139. 



Baking, methods of, 29. 



Bakwain tribe, 12; mode of burial, 

 86 ; religious ideas, 107 ; treatment 

 of, by the Boers, 80, 84. 



Balonda tribe, their appearance and 

 customs, 187, 307; idolatry and 

 superstition, 192, 310; hamlets, 

 194, 198; punctiliousness, 202, 

 208. 



Bamangwato hills, 101 ; tribe, 108. 



Banajoa tribe, 55. 



Banyai tribe, 376, 401, 405. 



Baobab tree, 110, 341. 



Bangala tribe, 247. 



Banian tree, 328. 



Barotse tribe, 170; valley, 148, 151. 



Bashinje tribe, 242. 



Basongo tribe, 256. 



Batoka tribe, 348. 



Baton ga tribe, 377. 



Bechuana race, 137, 138. 



Bee-eater, 171. 



Beehives in forests, 194. 



Beer, native, 127, 205. 



Bees'-wax, 232. 



Beetle, the scavenger, 32. 



Bengo, the river, 263, 26$ 

 Boers of interior Africa, 23, 67 . 

 Boguera, native custom of, 99. 

 Buaze' plant, 414. 

 Buffalo-hunting, 180, 321, 325. 

 Buffalo-bird, 172, 357. 

 Burial, modes of, 63, 86. 

 Burial-places, ancient, 286. 

 Bushmen, 35, 54, 112, 117. 



Cabango, 305. 



Cacusu fish, 272. 



Canaries in Londa, 220. 



Carriers, native, in Angola, 257, 261. 



Cassange, 249, 289. 



Caterpillar, effect of touching, 397. 



Cattle in Londa, 218. 



Cazembe, 208, 215 ; visited by Euro 



peans, 383. 

 Cazengo, district of, 271. 

 Chiboque tribe, 229. 

 Chieftainship, privileges of, 31 

 Chobe, the river, 58,^119, 159. 

 Circumcision, practice of, 98. 

 Coal near Tete, 411. 

 Coanza, the river, 273, 284. 

 Coffee, growing wild, 257; plantations 



in Angola, 262, 271. 

 Complexion, cause of dark, 54, 229, 



256. 

 Conge' plant, 414. 

 Cotton near lake Ngaun, 49; in 



Angola, 270, 280 ; at Tete, 413. 

 Cow-eland, 145. 

 Cumming, Gordon, veracity of, 102. 



Dance, native, 155. 



Desiccation, proofs of, in interior, 38, 



39, 46, 75. 

 Dilolo, the lake, 222, 317. 

 Diseases . among natives, 85, 332; 



among wild beasts, 91. 

 Distillation of water by insects, 260. 

 Doctors, native, 87. 



