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INDEX. 
BAHIMPE. 
273; Semalembue’s agents, 567 ; 
plundered by Mburuma’s people, 
582; Mburuma’s sole medium of 
intercourse with Europeans, 584; 
supply English cotton goods to 
the Zambesians, 594, 
Bahimpe, the, distinctive mark of, 
263; advice to pass through their 
country, 570. 
Bahurutse, the, important part al¬ 
lotted to, in the ceremony of the 
pumpkin harvest, 45. 
Bain, Mr., geological map of, 500, 
Bakda-mountains, latitude of, viru¬ 
lent fever in the district of, 10. 
-tribe, its removal to Kolo- 
beng, submission to Sechele, 149 ; 
basaltic caves, affording refuge to, 
150. 
Bakalahari, the, their origin and 
history, 49 ; character of, rela¬ 
tions with the Bechuanas, trade, 
50; peculiar mode of drawing 
water, 51; grass patches burned 
by, to attract the springbuck, 
104. 
Bakoba, or Bayeiye, the, African 
Quakers, their history, 63; pre¬ 
ference of, for canoe travelling, 
64; pitfalls of, 69,70 ; fish-eaters, 
fishing-implements of, 72; their 
dexterity in use of the harpoon,73. 
Bakoni, the, their fondness for agri¬ 
culture, 202. 
Bakuena. See Bakwain. 
Bakurutse, the, their canoes, 73, 
Bakwains, the, a Bechuana tribe. 
Dr. Livingstone familiarises him¬ 
self with, 9 , political revolution 
among, 14,15; purchase of land 
from, 19; character of, 19, 20; 
their objection to praying and 
preaching, 23; mode of hunting 
practised by, 26; emigrants to 
Cape Colony, 32, 33; their pre¬ 
ference of circular forms, 40; 
superstition of, touching the cave 
Lepelole, 124; their quarrels with 
the Boers, 125; inoculation prac¬ 
tised by, diseases never found 
among, 128; diseases to which 
they are subject, 129 ; medical 
practice of, 129-131; verdure of 
the country, 150 ; relics of animal 
worship among, 255. 
Balobale, the, a tribe to the west of 
the Leeba, 275; cattle brought 
from, by Katema, 321; fugitives 
in Katema’s country, their diso¬ 
bedience, 323; taking refuge with 
Shinte and Katema, 483; gradual 
destruction of the larger game by, 
486. 
Baloi witches, 129. 
Balonda, or Balunda, villages of, 
destroyed by Lerimo, 245 ; their 
meat-drying stages on the Leeba, 
266; ill-affected to Dr. Living¬ 
stone, 268, 269 ; hunters, meeting 
with Dr. Livingstone, 270; barter 
with, 271; cereals, herbs culti¬ 
vated by, the tattooing of, 272; or¬ 
naments of the women, 273; dress, 
ornaments of the, noblesse, 276, 
277 ; superstitions of. 281; idol- 
worship, habit of wearing arms, 
282; palisaded dwellings of, 283; 
their faith in charms, 285 ; fashion 
of housing guests, 286 ; universal 
BANYAI. 
idol-worship of, 286,287 ; courte¬ 
sies required by, 288; susceptible 
of religious impressions, 289 ; in, 
the negro type strongly deve¬ 
loped, 290, 291; their respect for 
women, 292; their musical in¬ 
struments, 293; their punctilious¬ 
ness, 296, 304; the fishing of, 312, 
313; contempt of, for the Mako- 
lolo, 313, 314; custom of aban¬ 
doning a house visited by death, 
314; ready hospitality of, fu¬ 
nerals among, 316; envy the 
Makololo, their exemption from 
the slave-trade, 322; careless life 
of the Cabango, 460; southern, 
kindlier spirit of, 461; traflBc in 
canoes, suggested to, 486; al¬ 
liances of, with the Makololo, 
489. 
Bamapela, the, dialect of, 115; 
game-laws enforced by, 599. 
Bamangwato, the. Dr. Livingstone’s 
first visit to, 10; road leading to 
the country of, 53; meeting with, 
on the Zouga, 62; banishment 
visited on men bitten by the alli¬ 
gator, 255. 
Bamangwato hills, volcanic cha¬ 
racter of the range, 149, 150. 
Bambala, tradition of intercourse be¬ 
tween Batoka and white traders 
at, 532. 
Bambiri, the, prevented by tsetse 
from rearing cattle, 596; a branch 
of the Banyai, 604; a trouble¬ 
some guide from, 605 ; attempts 
of, to induce Dr.Livingstone smen 
to settle in their villages, 623. 
Banajoa, a tribe extending east¬ 
ward from the Mahabe, 80. 
Bangalas, at war with the Portu¬ 
guese, 359; election of the chief 
among, 434 ; their trade with the 
Bashinje, 442. 
Bango, the, possessors of St. Hila- 
rion, 410; gradations of rank 
among, drunkenness of, free-ma- 
sonry, 411; their funeral and 
marriage ceremonies, 412; love 
of litigation, 413; fondness for 
titles, 414. 
Bango, the chief, present from, re¬ 
fuses to eat beef, 462 ; game found 
in his country, groups of villages, 
462. 
Bangwaketse, the, conquered by 
Sebituane, 84, 85, 
Banian-tree, of South Africa, 173 ; 
at Chitlane’s village, African 
veneration for, Barotse name of, 
495. 
Banians, agents in the trade be¬ 
tween Bombaya and Senna, 659, 
Banona, appellation of men, 148. 
Banyassa, the, country of, 503. 
Banyai, the, on the south bank of 
the Zambesi, 574; their mode of 
killing elephants from stages, 
575 ; a button in the lip, worm 
by the women, 597 ; the fall of 
rain in their country less than in 
Londa, 605 ; devotional suscepti¬ 
bility of, 607,608 ; possess abun¬ 
dance of honey, wax of no ac¬ 
count among, 614; superstition 
of, forbidding the killing of lions, 
615 ; confederacy of tribes of, its 
lord paramount, 617; political 
BARTEE. 
liberties of, election of chief, 617, 
618 ; system of education among, 
618 ; ordeal practised by, 621; 
high position of women among, 
622, 623; their complexion, 
fashion of hair-dressing, 624. 
Banyeti, the tribute of iron exacted 
by the Makololo from, 197 ; on the 
Leeambye, their skill in handi¬ 
crafts and in agricultui’e, 212, 
213; tribute to Sekeletu, 214; 
on the high grounds, cereals, 
herbs, fruits, cultivated by, 220; 
fruits of, 236, 237. 
Baobabs, girth of, on the Zouga, 70 ; 
nature of the, 163. 
Bapalleng, theft of ivory from, 198. 
Baptista, Pedro Joao, crossed the 
African continent, 435. 
Bara, a confederacy of gold-seekers, 
630. 
Baramuana, defences against the 
Landeens on, 660; view from, 661. 
Barimo spirits, 220; appeased by 
drum-beating, 316,317 ; belief in 
the continued existence of, 331; 
vindictiveness of, 433; cruel sac¬ 
rifices to, 434; votive offerings to, 
466; represented at a funeral, 
467 ; sacrifices to, above Mosioa- 
tunya, 523 ; “ motsd oa,” 524; Bo- 
roma seized by, 602 ; invoked, to 
give success in hunting, 607. 
Bark, strips of, the dress of the Ki- 
sima, 406. 
Barolongs, the, Bakwain settlement 
destroyed by, 10; their disputes 
with the Boers, 122; subdivided 
by the quarrel of three brothers, 
213. 
Baroma excuses himself from an 
interview, 602. 
Baroro, the people of, 664. 
Barotse, the, incorporated with the 
Makololo, 88 ; cure for infiamma- 
tion of the lungs, 89 ; their energy 
and activity in crossing a flooded 
country, 177 ; a colonist from, 
irrigated the country near Gonye, 
213; religious feeling shown by, 
belief in the existence of spiritual 
beings, 219, 220; boatmen, 243, 
244 ; graceful hospitality of, 246 ; 
character of their serfdom, 247, 
248; unwillingness of, to visit Ma- 
siko, 263; belief of, in the power 
of the eye, ib. ; intricacies in their 
social polity, 489 ; fugitives from 
Sekeletu turned back, 490; super¬ 
stitions touching the Leeambjm, 
517; no salt in their country, 
600 ; application of the ordeal 
“ muavi” peculiar to, 622, 
—— valley, large oxen of the, 192 ; 
productions of the, 197 ; annually 
inundated, description of, 214, 
215 ; the land of plenty, 220 ; its 
unhealthiness, 221; the headman 
of, 245; love of the Barotse for, 
254 ; fish left by inundation in, 
261; triumphal progress down, 
493; palm-tree, seeds planted in, 
494; project of migration to, 503; 
objections, 504; diseases incident 
to, 503, 504; in old times avast 
lake, 527; large breed of cattle 
probably imported, size and 
cowardice of its dogs, 565. 
Barter, unavoidable in the interior 
