692 
INDEX. 
BOOKSELLER. 
Bookseller, a, not to be found in east¬ 
ern or western Africa, 644. 
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 method of baking, 
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-niakaba, its feud with the 
islanders, 574; sudden attack of, 
near the Loangwa, 588. 
Buffalo-birds, quick sight of, 546. 
Bunda, dialect spoken by the Mam- 
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. 
Butterflies, 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, 134. 
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. 
Cambnslang, 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, 428. 
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 
iti 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- 
CATIIEDRAL. 
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 
of, 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, auiborising the oppression 
of the Griquas and Bechuanas, 
106. 
Cathedral, the, of Loanda, impres¬ 
sion made by service in, on the 
Makololo, 392. 
