INDEX, 
691 
BARTH. 
of Africa, 190 ; ajnong the Mako- 
lolo, 191; taking the place of free 
hospitality, 331. 
Barth, Dr. Livingstone’s hope of 
meeting, 289. 
Bashinje, the. Dr. Livingstone enters 
their country, 359; larvse used 
as food by, 361; their chaffering 
for tribute, 362, 363; refuse ca¬ 
noes to pass the Quango, 364 ; 
fire on Dr. Livingsione’s party, 
365; physiognomy of, 442 ; fan¬ 
tastic modes of hair-dressing, 443. 
Bashubia, a tribe on the Zambesi, 86. 
Bashukulompo, the. Dr. la vingstone 
directed towards their country, 
550 ; fugitive saved by Dr. Liv¬ 
ingstone, 553; mode of dressing 
hair, 556; products of their 
country, 568. 
Basimane, appellation of boys, 148. 
Basongo, the, subject to the Portu¬ 
guese, 3t8; possessing cattle, 
379; source of the Quango in 
their country, 440; workers in 
iron, 595. 
Basutos, the, battle between the 
English and, 121; nucleus of the 
Makololo tribe, 197; division of 
South African tribes, 201. 
Batauana, the. Dr. Livingstone’s 
arrival in the country of, 68; 
their keenness in trade, 69. 
Batlapi, the, social condition of, im¬ 
proved by missionary teaching, 
202 . 
Batletli, the, large horned cattle of, 
85, note. 
Batoka, the, a tribe inhabiting the 
islands of the Zambesi, their cha¬ 
racter and customs, 86; their 
fastnesses destroyed by Sebitu- 
ane, 88 ; tribute of iron paid by, 
197 ; differences of colour in, 339; 
propose rebellion against Dr. Liv¬ 
ingstone, 347 ; fugitives dashed 
to pieces at Mosioatunya, 523; 
fastnesses, 523, 524; utterly dis¬ 
persed by Sebituane, 527 ; their 
sanguinary character, 530 ; cus¬ 
tom of knocking out the front 
teeth, 532, 533; degenerate tribe 
of, 540; destruction of their cattle, 
manner of distributing their vil¬ 
lages, 554 ; beyond the outskirts 
of the free country, their friend¬ 
liness, savage mode of salutation, 
551; of Dr. Livingstone’s band, 
their insubordination, plundering 
propensities, 552; the character 
and habits of Semalembue’s tribe, 
567 ; names of giraffe and ostrich 
unknown in their language, 612. 
Batoka country, its features and 
products, 534, 535 ; uninhabited 
district dividing the free from 
the dependent Batoka, 541 ; its 
abundance of game, 541, 542; its 
rocky structure, its trees and 
flowers, 542; depopulation of 
Sebituane’s settlement on the 
Mozuma, 548, 549 ; arrival in the 
rebel distidct, dangerous adven¬ 
ture with a mad prophet, 549 ; 
hostile demeanour of the people, 
550; friendliness of the free 
tribes, 551; their desire for 
peace, 553; overrun by succes¬ 
sive conquerors, 554; its streams 
BEN-HABIB. 
not perennial, its fertility, 556; 
small size of its domestic animals, 
565 ; dip of the rocky strata in, 
558 ; on the Kafue, love and 
regret of the Makololo for, 568. 
Batonga, the, on the north bank of 
the Zambesi, 574. 
Bayeiye. See Bakoba serpent- 
charmers, 145, 146. 
Bazunga, half-caste, slave-traders, 
582; disadvantage of marching 
in their path, 583; ruined village 
of, at the confluence of the Zam¬ 
besi and the Loangwa, 584 ; said 
to have been driven away by the 
Matebele, 585; staples of their 
trade, 587 ; since two years not 
seen on the Zambesi, 594. 
Bechuanas, origin of the names of 
the various tribes of, 13; patri¬ 
archal government, customs of, 
15 ; their hatred of the slave- 
trade, 31; their fear of Euro¬ 
peans, 32; tribes of, enslaved by 
the Boers, ib. ; their chief buried 
in his cattle-pen, 90; of the 
Orange river, 104; given up to 
the oppression of the Boers, 106, 
107; success of missions to, their 
trade, their inaptitude for handi¬ 
crafts, 108, 109 ; cuttings made 
by, to resuscitate fountains. Ill; 
imperishability of, 115; stagna¬ 
tion of intellect among, 124; love 
of children, 126, 132; ceremonies 
observed by, on attaining man¬ 
hood, 146, 147; their manner of 
training boys, 147-149; division 
of labour among, 151; notions of, 
on religious subjects, 158, 159; 
their manner of using milk, 160; 
their behaviour in sickness, 169 ; 
probable derivation of the name, 
200, 201; their prejudices with 
regard to eating, 224. 
Bedingfleld, Commander, invites the 
Makololo on hoard his ship, 391; 
his escape from drowning, 423. 
Bee-eater, its nests in the banks of 
the Leeambye, 248. 
Beehives of the Balonda, mode of 
fashioning and protecting them, 
284, 285; on the Chihune, 344. 
Beetle, the scavenger, its usefulness, 
43; habits described, 44. 
Benedictines, ruined convent of, at 
Massangano, 405. 
Benevides, de Sa, Governor, drove 
the Dutch from Angola, 406. 
Bengala, the, taxes imposed by, 
on slavedealers, 351; extort an 
ox and a tusk from Dr. Living¬ 
stone, 352, 353; subdued by the 
government of Angola, 366 ; 
burned a party of Ambonda, 368. 
Bongo, a name of the Senza, 388 ; 
supplies Luanda with water, 
395 ; ascent of, 397. 
Benguela, wax of the Londa forests 
exported from, 285; large cattle 
of, 565; forests, the lichens and 
mosses of, found in the Batoka 
country, 558. 
Ben-Habib intrusted to conduct 
Makololo traders to Loanda, 501; 
his betrayal of Sebola Bakwaia, 
502, 503 ; a suitor to Sebituane’s 
daughter, rejected, 508 ; Banyai 
guide resembling, 624. 
I BOOKS. 
Bible, the, not the sole evangeliser, 
28; translation of, into Sichuana 
by Mr. Moffat, 113, 114; value 
of the translation, 115; the great 
instrument in evangelising the 
heathen, 117, 118. 
Bihe, the country of the Mambari, 
91; in the route of the Mambari, 
227, traders from, 359 ; situation 
of, not ascertained, 426; a tra¬ 
velled native of, 429. 
Birds of the Leeambye forests de¬ 
scribed, 238-241; of the Leeam¬ 
bye, north of Libonta, 252, 253 ; 
water, forms of the bills, 253; 
geese of the Barotse valley, 253, 
254 ; of the Loeti, 261. 
-singing, tamed by the Balonda 
and Barotse, 524 ; song, observed 
in districts devoid of animal life, 
525. 
Bivouacking, in Africa, 250,251. 
Blackbird, African, tail-feathers 
prized % the natives, 432. 
Blantyre works, removal of Dr. 
Livingstone’s family to, 2; Dr. 
Livingstone a piecer in, 3. 
Bloemfontein, Sechele’s meeting 
with English oflicers at, 121. 
Boatlanama, second staticm on the 
journey to Lake Ngami, 54 ; wells 
of, found dry, 134. 
Boers, signiflcation of the name, 
29; of the Cashan mountains, 
their character, 29 ; cordial re¬ 
ception of, by the Bechuanas, 
ungrateful return, 30; slave 
forays, 31; suspicious temper, 
cowardice of, 32 ; their oppression 
of the native Africans, 33 ; seek 
to deprive the Bakwains of guns, 
to make a spy of Dr. Livingstone, 
35; their cowardly mode of 
flghting, Sechele’s resistance, 37 ; 
opposition of, to missions and to 
trading, treaty with Sir George 
Cathcart, 38; attack on the Ko- 
lobeng settlement, 39 ; of Cape 
Colony, their physical constitu¬ 
tion, 98 ; farms of, pastm-e, 103 ; 
Transvaal, obtain the passing 
of the “gunpowder ordinance,’’ 
106; canals and cuttings of, for 
irrigation. 111, 112 ; Transvaal, 
flue inflicted by, on Mr. Macabe, 
122; send to seek peace from 
the Bakwains, 125 ; slave-svstem 
of, 126, 127. 
Bogs containing iron, 454. 
Boguera, a ceremony of South 
African tribes, 146, 149. 
Bolcamaria, a wild flower of An¬ 
gola, 399. 
Bolenga hills, a range west of the 
Kafue, 570. 
Bolengwe, a hill and gorge of the 
Kafue, 568. 
Bombay, trade of Senna with, 659. 
Bombwe, a cataract of the Leeam¬ 
bye, 213. 
Bonda, the dialect of Angola, 269. 
Bonga, a tuber containing salt, 625. 
Bonga, Tete plundered and burned 
by, 631; his character, 654 ; pass¬ 
ing his stockade, 655. 
Bonyai, Banyai system of instruc¬ 
tion, 618. 
Books carried by Dr. Livingstone, 
230. 
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