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INDEX. 
CONGO. 
of the Kasai, 336; of the Quango 
valley, 360. 
Congo, Prince of, a Christian, 426; 
title of the king, Christianity 
little understood in, 427. 
- or Zaire, the, receives the 
rivers of Angola, 443 . 
Congress, African, in Londa, 2t3- 
279. 
Cookery, Barotse, 251. 
Copper anklets, trade between 
Shinte’s and Cazembe’s people 
in, 305. 
‘Cottar's Saturday Night,’ allu¬ 
sion to, 3. 
Cotton, two species of, in Africa, 
71; mill, a myth to the African, 
271; grown by Mozinkwa’s wife, 
314; of Tete not equal to the 
Angolese, 644, 645; fitness of 
Eastern Africa for its cultivation, 
675. 
Cotton-cloth eagerly sought by the 
people of Mokwanka, 307, 
“ Cotton ground ” in Africa, 204. 
Cotton-spinning, advantages of, in 
Dr. Livingstone’s early educa¬ 
tion, 5; universal in Angola, 399. 
Cotton-trees, perennial, in Angola, 
ignorance of their value, 415. 
Cowan, Dr., his whole party cut off 
by fever in the expedition of 
1808, 14. 
Cranes of the Leeambye, 253. 
Crassulas of Cape Colony, 99. 
Craters of the Bamangwato hills, 
149. 
Creels, used by the Balonda as fish- 
traps, 312. 
Creepers of the desert, capable of 
supplying moisture, 47; follow¬ 
ing the sun, 345. 
Crickets, African, 542. 
Crystals, dissolved by a running 
stream, 233. 
Cuckoo, an African species of, 559. 
Cucumbers, scarlet, of the Kalahari, 
description of, 47, 48. 
Culloden,' battle of, death of Dr. 
Livingstone’s great-grandfather 
at, 1. 
Culpeper’s Herbal, Dr. Livingstone’s 
early study of, 5. 
Cumming, Gordon, his visits to 
Kolobeng, 151; truth of his ad¬ 
ventures vouched for, 152. 
Cupping practised by Bakwain doc¬ 
tors, 129, 130. 
Cuvier testifies to Aristotle’s know¬ 
ledge of natural history, 563. 
Dalama, native name of gold, 597. 
Dambarari, probably the Bambala 
of tradition, 532 ; in old times a 
gold-field, 637. 
Dance, Makalolo, in welcome of 
Sekeletu, 225. 
Dande, petroleum springs at, 421; 
tribes between the Coanza, and, 
subject to the Portuguese, 429. 
Darfur, cause of its aridity, 477, 
478. 
Darter, the snake bird of African 
rivers, described, 240. 
Deformity, rarely observed in 
Africa, 577. 
Deity, native names of a supreme, 
641. 
EDUCATION. 
Deluge, sole tradition of the, in 
Africa, 327. 
Desiccation of the country, evidences 
of, in South Africa, 54. 
Dick, Dr. Thomas, the works of, 
debt of Dr. Livingstone to, 4. 
Dila, river of. See Mozuma. 
Dilolo, Lake, description of. Dr. 
Livingstone prevented surveying, 
324; tradition, giving the origin 
of its name, 327 ; the watershed 
of eastern and western rivers, 
473, 474; reviving influence of, 
479 ; latitude of, 480 ; fording the 
southern branch of, 482. 
Dingaan, a Caffre chief, expelled 
Mosilikatze from the Magalies- 
berg country, 30. 
Diseases found in South Africa, 
127-129; to which South African 
wild beasts are subject, 135, 136; 
carried by infection, 649. 
Disputes, negro, rarely end in fight¬ 
ing, 466. 
Distillation of insects, 21, 416, 417; 
mode of, practised at Tete, 630. 
Diviner, a, consulted as a physician, 
433; disconcerted by Dr. Living¬ 
stone, 525. 
Doctors, African, not invariably 
quacks, 130; a Makololo drowned 
in the Leeambye, 212. 
Dolomite, on Taba Cheu, 548; on 
hill ranges, seen from Mabue- 
asula, 570. 
Dongolo, a fruit of the Bambiri, 
625. 
Donkeys, introduced into Central 
Africa, 512. 
Drought, effects of, in Africa, 20, 
21; submission and energy of the 
Bakwains in time of, 25, 26. 
Drum worship in Londa, 282 ; the 
Balonda, described, 292, 293; ser¬ 
vice required from, at funerals, 
316; beating, an intimation of 
death, 624. 
Drunkenness, not unknown in 
Londa, 299; the vice of Angola, 
411 ; an euphuism for, 602; temp¬ 
tations to, in Tete, 630. 
Dua, the, trial by ordeal on, 434. 
Due, the, a sand stream, 611. 
Duiker, the, its ability to resist 
thirst, 56. 
Dunovan, Captain, died of fever, 
descending the Limpopo, 14. 
Du Prat, Chevalier, his letters of 
recommendation, 367. 
Durasaifi, holcus sorghum, beer 
made from, 186 ; principal gi-ain 
of the Makalaka, 197. 
Dutch clergy in Africa, their re¬ 
venues, 34, note. 
Dutch, the, expulsion of, from An¬ 
gola, 406. 
Dye-stuffs, native of Africa, wild 
indigo, 71; orchilla weed, 266; 
Columba root, found near 'Pete, 
used by the Americans, 636. 
Dykes, granite, breaking through 
the overlying strata, 570. 
Earthquakes, no tradition of, in the 
Barotse country, 497 ; near Tete 
and Senna, 641. 
Eclipse of the sun, 415. 
Education, benefits of, to the work- 
EXPORTS. 
ing classes in Scotland, 7; pro¬ 
moted by comfort, 27 ; system of, 
among Bechuanas and Caffres, 
147-149 ; Banyai system of, 618. 
Egyptians, customs of, resembling 
the Makololo, 195; monuments, 
seeming imitations of faces on, 
carved in bark by the Bolonda, 
304 ; ancient, resemblance of the 
Londa tribes to, 379 ; ancient, 
spinning and weaving of, prac¬ 
tised in Angola, 399 ; resemblance 
of the Banyai to, 624. 
Eland, the, its beauty, 43 ; its power 
of resisting thirst, 56; cow, shot 
by Dr. Livingstone, bearing scars 
from lion claws, a new variety, 
210; unable to endure a hard 
chase, 257 ; Hacks of, near Ca- 
bango, 455. 
Elephants, their sagacity in avoid¬ 
ing pitfalls, 70; of the Zouga, 
their peculiarities, 71 ; tactics of, 
when hunted, 76; dangers of 
hunting, 152,153; Bushman mode 
of hunting, compared withGriqua, 
Boer, and English, 165, 166 ; the 
mohonono eaten by, 167 ; their 
fondness for vines, 169 ; size of, 
in the hot central region of Africa, 
438, 439 ; variety without tusks 
on the Kaloma, 545; separation 
of, into distinct herds, 547; their 
manner of feeding, 550, 551 ; hunt 
of a cow and calf by Dr. Living¬ 
stone’s men, 561-563; African, 
compared to Indian, great size of 
the ear in African, 563; African, 
tamed by the ancients, 563, 564; 
differences in height of, 564 ; 
daintiness of, in feeding, 565, 566 ; 
cow with three calves, seen on the 
Chiponga, 573 ; killed from stages 
by the Banyai, 575 ; extraordi¬ 
nary tenacity of life in, danger of 
shooting, on foot, 579 ; Mr. 
Oswell’s hairbreadth escape from 
a wounded, 580 ; escape of, by 
swimming, 598, 599 ; hunt in the 
Banyai country, 607, 608 ; the 
Mokoronga eaten by, 611. 
Elevation of the country, fallacious 
criteria of the, 283, 284. 
Embarrah, the chief feeder of Lake 
Ngami, 67. 
Empacasseiros, secret society of the 
Bengo, 411. 
English, importance of speaking, 
in missionary settlements, 8*; 
law, ground of the Boers objec¬ 
tion to, 29; fidelity to engage¬ 
ments, confidence of Africans in, 
151,152; manufactures, Mambari 
history of, 271; esteem, in which 
they are held in Eastern Africa, 
596, 597; disgrace brought on the 
name by niggardly travellers, 
601; difficulty in speaking, after 
long disuse, 682. 
Esquimaux, contrasted with the 
South Africans, 552. 
Euphorbia, poison of the, its effects 
on men and animals, 171; insects 
feeding on, 609. 
Exports, table of, from Angola 437 
note; of Tete, before the esta¬ 
blishment of the slave-trade, 630. 
