44tf 



INDEX OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. 



Shells highly prized, 192, 206. 



Shire, the river, 423. 



Shittim wood, 77. 



Sichuana language, 78. 



Skins, mode of preparing, 131. 



Slaves, treatment of, 299. 



Slave-trade in the interior, 203. 



Smoking, effects of, 348. 



Songs of birds, 397. 



Spiders, 220. 



Spinning in Angola, 270. 



Sponges, fresh-water, 171. 



Spring-bocks, 71. 



Stupefaction produced by insects, 352. 



Sugar manufactory, 269. 



Swifts, 83. 



Tala Mungongo, range of, 255. 



Tampan, bite of the, 259. 



Tapioca, preparation of, 286. 



Tattooing, 185. 



Tenacity of life in animals, 175. 



Tete and its productions, 408-413. 



Therm ometrical observations, 18, 108, 



113, 169, 204, 262, 305, 320, 355, 



367, 377, 384,405, 416. 

 Thorns in South Africa, 233. 

 Tianyane antelope, 144. 



Toad, new species of, 321 

 Tortoises, land, 90. 

 Trogon, bird, 178. 

 Tsetse, 56, 57, 177, 228. 

 T sitla plant, 55. 

 Turtles, fresh-water, 324. 



Unicorn caterpillar, 102. 



Victoria falls, 341. 

 Vines, 114; wild, 401. 



Water-melons, 35, 81. 

 Watershed of South African continent 

 315. 



Watersuckers, female, 37, 104. 

 Weaving in Angola, 271. 

 Winter, signs of, 309.' 

 Wives, purchase of, 404. 



Zambesi, discovery of the, 63 ; its 

 width at various points, 64, 343, 

 388, 424; rise of its water, 316, 

 388, 393. 



Zebras, 184. 



Zouga, the river, 45, 48 



Zumbo, 382. 



SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS NOTICED 

 IN THE FOREGOING WORK. 



I. — Plants. 



Acacia atomiphylla, 76. 



detinens, 44, 76. 



giraffae, 76, 139. 



horrida, 76, 139 



nilotica, 77. 



Adansonia digitata, 49. 



Alfacyna, 423. 



Amaryllis toxicaria, 76, 285. 



Brunswigia multiflora, 76. 



Anona, 320. 



Araca pomifera, 320. 



Arachis hypogaea, 133. 



Bauhinia, 111,350. 



Cannabis sativa, 135, 223, 348. 



Canon papaya, 320. 



Cassia acutifolia, 413. 



Convolvulus batates, 151. 



Drosera, 314. 



Elois Guineensis, 272. 



Euphorbia arborescens, 116. 



Gladiolus, 285. 



Holcus sorghum, 135, 151, 413. 



Hymanthus, 285. 



Indigofera argentea, 413. 



Jatropha manihot, 135, 151. 



curcas, 213. 



utilissima, 151. 



Leucodendron argenteum, 194. 

 Malouetia Heudlotii, 416. 

 Mesembryanthemum edule, 69. 



turbiniforme, 69 



Olea similis, 76. 



