INDEX. 
693 
CATHOLICS. 
Catholics, Roman, the, of Ulva, 
their conversion to Protestant¬ 
ism, 2. 
Cathory, leaves, a cure for ulcer, 4.32. 
Cattle, the chief wealth of the Be- 
chuanas, 32 ; stealing of the 
Boers, 37 ; given as presents, 77 ; 
destroyed by tsetse, 83; of the 
Makololo, their curved horns and 
fantastic ornaments, 192; price 
of, in Loanda, 419; of various 
tribes, compared, 565. 
Cattle-pen, custom of burying a 
Bechuana chief in, 90. 
Cattle-stealing unknown among the 
Bechuanas, 57. 
Cazembe, situation of his town, 
Pereira’s and Lacerda’s visit 
there, 305; names of his people 
and country, 305, 306; human 
sacrifices of, explained, 317 ; pro¬ 
bable position of, 476 ; visits of 
white men to, 555, 556; his power 
exaggerated by Pereira, 587 ; 
failure of the expedition to, 588 ; 
geographical information given 
by a traveller to, 640. 
Cazengo, coffee plantations of, 401; 
annual tribute to the govern¬ 
ment, 402 ; its plantations, 407. 
Centipedes in certain districts, 609. 
Cereals grown by the Makalaka, 
197; on the Barotse highlands, 
220 ; grown on the banks of the 
Lokalueji, early ripened, 312 ; of 
the Banyai, 600 ; grown at fi’ete, 
630. 
Chamai, wooded hills, 558. 
Changamera drove the Bazunga 
from the Zambesi, 585. 
Charity, consistent, disinterested, 
inseparable from Christianity, 
510. 
Charms used to bring rain, 22 ; be¬ 
lieved to be identical with medi¬ 
cine, 23-25; against serpent-bites, 
273; love of, among the Balonda, 
281; the Ficus indicus regarded 
as a, 290 ; men murdered for the 
sake of procuring, 317; benefits 
derived from faith in, 330, 331 ; 
faith in, in Angola, 435. 
Chebende, interview with, 482; 
Shinte’s councillor, 485. 
Chests, wooden, trade in, at Cam- 
bondo, 387. 
Chiboque, the, neglect of cultiva¬ 
tion in their territory, 337 ; vio¬ 
lent attempt of, to extort tri¬ 
bute, 340-342; their slave-deal¬ 
ing practices, 343 ; perpetual ex¬ 
tortions of, 347; plunder Pr. 
Livingstone’s party under pre¬ 
tence of exchanging presents, 
348, 349 ; attack at longa Panza’s 
village, 352, 353; attack of, on 
Dr. Livingstone’s party return¬ 
ing, 445 ; repulsed without blood¬ 
shed, 446. 
Chicova, district of, its silver mines, 
603; its geological structure, 
604. 
Chieftainship, peculiar rights and 
duties of, in Africa, 43; elective, 
in Angola, 434. 
Chifumadze, the, a branch of the 
Leeba, 315. 
Chihombo, the, a feeder of the 
Kasai, 314; the path lost near, 
CLIMBING. 
346; flows past Cabango, 455; 
traces of buffalo and hippopotami 
on its banks, 461. 
Chihune, the, Dr. Livingstone pre¬ 
vented taking an observation on, 
343, 344. 
China, Dr. Livingstone’s wish to 
go as medical missionary to, 5; 
opium war in, change of plan, 8 ; 
karosses exported from the Be¬ 
chuana country to, 50. 
Chipaka, the, extortions practised 
at the passage of, 355,356; deeper 
valley worn by, to the eastward, 
448. 
Chiponga, the, delayed by rains 
on, tsetse, 371; journey from, 
through a petrified forest, 572 ; 
tameness of the elephants on, 
573. 
Chitlane, present of linkololo, re¬ 
ceived at his village, 494 ; site of 
his village, epidemic sickness in, 
495. 
Chizamena, the, range, in a wooded 
country frequented by elephants, 
550; fertilized by anthills, 551. 
Chobe, the, meeting the Makololo 
on, 83 ; character of the country 
between the Zambesi, and, 91 ; 
annual inundations of, 174; first 
descried.by Dr. Livingstone, 175; 
passage down, to Maflonta, 176, 
177; divides into five branches, 
231; hippopotami of, 231, 232; 
banks of, 232 ; its course, its con¬ 
fluence with the Leeambye, 233 ; 
Dr. Livingstone leaves, 234; 
canoe voyage from Sesheke to, 
516. 
Chondo, an island on the Leeambye, 
517. 
Chongwe, the, flooded by rains, 575. 
Chonuatie, at, Dr. Livingstone’s first 
settlement among the Bakwains, 
20; half-deserted houses at, in¬ 
fested by lions, 137. 
Chorichori, a cluster of conical hills 
on the Zambesi, 602. 
Chowc, the, salt extracted from its 
bed, 600. 
Christianity, the diffusion of, its in¬ 
direct benefits beyond price, 226. 
Chuantsa, a salt-pan, 77 ; nature of 
the salt deposit, 159. 
Church, ruined, between the Zam¬ 
besi and the Loangwa, 586. 
Circumcision, practised among Be¬ 
chuana and Caffre tribes, 146. 
Civilization and evangelization in¬ 
separable, 28 ; conducive to phy¬ 
sical improvement, 166. 
Clarendon, Lord, American cotton¬ 
seed sent to Africa by, 414; in¬ 
forms the Portuguese of Dr. Liv¬ 
ingstone’s expedition, 633; Dr. 
Livingstone’s obligations to, 672. 
Climate of the country bordering 
the Kalahari desert favourable 
to the cure of pulmonary disease, 
132, 133 ; moist, of Londa dis¬ 
liked by the Makololo and 
Barotse, 309; hurtful moisture 
of the, in Angola, 380, 381 ; of 
Loanda, its effects on tempera¬ 
ment, 397; natural adaptation of 
animals to, 407. 
Climbing plants of the Londa 
forests, 284, 
CONGLOMERATE. 
Clyde, the, cotton manufactory on, 
2; compared to the Zouga, 69; 
recalled by the Kasai, 332 ; the 
vale of, recalled by the Quango 
vallej’-, 360; flooded holms of, 
recalled by the Leeambye, 529. 
Coal, possibility of finding at Pungo 
Andongo, 421; indications of, on 
the Mozuma, 548; seams of, on 
the streams of the Zambesi, 633, 
634. 
Coanza, the, error as to the course 
of, 222; true course of, 357; 
source of, near Bihe, 372 ; charac¬ 
ter of the country between the 
Quize and, 379 ; joined by the Lu- 
calla at Massangano,381; project¬ 
ed canal from, to Loanda, 395 ; 
fish of, tax on the fishermen, 403; 
navigation of, 404; disused, 406; 
southern boundary of the Portu¬ 
guese, 422; tribes on the left 
bank, 423; difference of tempera¬ 
ture on, 424 ; flora of, 425 ; sup¬ 
posed source of, 426. 
Cobras, their love of eggs, 145. 
Cockin, Mr., surgeon of the Polj^- 
phemus, 391. 
Codrington, Captain, visit of, to the 
Bakwains, 125; surprised by a 
lion, 138; his gift of a pontoon 
to Dr. Livingstone, 174. 
Coffee prized by the Makololo, 
207; growir in Angola, 379 ; the 
favourite soil of, 399 ; not in¬ 
digenous in Angola, 401 ; cause 
of its extensive propagation, 
402. 
Coimbra, the University of, native 
Africans educated as priests at, 
426. 
Colonization of South Africa re¬ 
commended, 97. 
Colour, black, of African tribes, 
accidents modifying the, 78; 
theories accounting for lighter or 
darker, in African tribes, 338, 
339. 
Comets, regarded by the Bechuanas 
with superstitious dread, 10. 
Commandant, office of, eagerness of 
Portuguese to obtain, frequent 
abuse of, 418, 419. 
Commemoration of remarkable 
events in Africa, 217, 218. 
Commerce of essential importance 
in missionary efforts, 28; un¬ 
suitable to missionaries, though 
the great stay of missions, 33; a 
preventive of the slave-trade, 92 ; 
Dr. Livingstone’s opportunities 
of engaging in, 189 ; his opinions 
as to its compatibility with mis¬ 
sionary efforts, 190 ; an esta¬ 
blished, eagerly desired by the 
IMakololo, 228; of the Balonda 
hindered by western tribes, 333 ; 
impolicy of restrictions on, 374 ; 
• staples of, in Loanda, 395 ; free 
navigation of the Zambesi neces¬ 
sary to, 642, 643 ; suggestions 
for the promotion of, in Africa, 
675, 676. 
Confluence of the Chobe and the 
Leeambye ill defined, 233. 
Congo, a species of aloe, its fibrous 
tissue a substitute for flax, 645, 
646. 
Conglomerate,feruginous,in a valiey 
