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INDEX. 
KATIMA. 
329 ; sends for Dr. Livingstone, 
333; refuses to see him, demands 
a price for passing through his 
country, 334, 335. 
Katima-molelo, a northward bend 
of the Leeambye, below the 
rapids, 213; widening of the 
river, after passing, 216 ; reaches 
of deep water between Mameta 
and, the haunts of hippopotami, 
241. 
Katolosa, the “ Emperor Monomo- 
tapa,” 617 ; ddtour to avoid, 624 ; 
two tusks extorted, by threat of 
his interference, 626 , his treach¬ 
ery to the Portuguese, 631, 632; 
tolls levied by, on the Zambesi, 
642. 
Katonga, latitude of, the adjacent 
country described, 208, 209. 
Katongo, latitude of, unhealthiness 
of the district, 220, 221. 
Kawawa, funeral in his village, 
467 ; pleasant conversation with, 
magic lantern exhibited, 468 ; his 
demand of tribute, opposes the 
crossing of the Kasai, 468, 469; 
outwitted, 470. 
Kebrabasa, a rapid above Tete, 554; 
of the Chicova, 604. 
Kengwe, water-melon of the African 
desert, 48. 
Khari, Sechele’s son, enslaved by 
the Boers, 125. 
Kidnapping of children for the 
slave-trade, 297. 
Kilbopechoe, his bunt after fright¬ 
ened oxen, 168 ; takes fever, 172. 
Kilimane, eastern terminus of Dr. 
Livingstone's last journey, 94; 
journey to, delayed, 628; cha¬ 
racter of fever at, 630 ; provisions 
procured from, during the siege 
of Tete, 632 ; use of palm-toddy 
at, 639; failure of crops at, fa¬ 
mine, 652 ; house in, built by 
native carpenters, 662; inconve¬ 
nient position, 670 ; arrival at, 
letters from home, 672 ; situation 
of, its unhealthiness, 680. 
Kimbonda, or Ambonda, .the, cha¬ 
racter of, 423. 
King-hunter, the, whistle of, 325. 
Kings, African respect for, 38. 
Kisafu, fowls offered in sacrifice, 407. 
Kisaka, or Choutama, his rebellion, 
burning of the Tete merchants’ 
plantations, 632; his ravages of 
the Maganja country, 657 ; Senna 
at the mercy of, 658. 
Kisama. See Quisamas. 
Kisekise, a hill in the Batoka coun¬ 
try, view from it, 554. 
Kuve, a mountain range, 384. 
Koha, a dance of the Bechuanas and 
Caffres, 146, 147. 
Kolimbota, accused of betraying the 
Balonda, 268 ; acts as spokes¬ 
man, 274; recommended to take 
a wife from the Balonda, 277 ; 
his fear of offending Shinte, 294; 
intrigues to be left with the Ba¬ 
londa, 296; his desertion of Dr. 
Livingstone, 483; kind treatment 
of, by Shinte, 484; his evil deeds, 
488. 
Kolobeng, the, settlement on, irri¬ 
gation of the adjacent country, 
distressing droughts, 20, 21; at- 
LANDEENS. 
tack of the Boers, 39; corn 
brought to, from Kuruman, 42 ; 
Dr. Livingstone’s second start 
from, in 1850, 74 ; his return to, 
76; mission station at, broken up 
and deserted, 92; first valley 
after leaving, 329 ; Makololo de¬ 
scription of Dr. Livingstone’s 
house at, 391; nest of a kovwe 
found at, 613; depressing in¬ 
fluence of its long droughts, 590, 
591. 
Komanga hills, range east of the 
Kafue, 570. 
Konde, the, beautiful valley of, 337. 
Kongwhane, the, scarlet insect on, 
609. 
Koobe, well at, destroyed by the 
rhinoceros, 161. 
Koodoo, the, found always near 
water, 56; on the Zouga, a 
smaller variety, 7l. 
Korwe, the red-beaked hornbill, se¬ 
clusion of, while hatching its eggs, 
613, 614. 
Kosi, Bakwain term for chief, 45. 
Kosimakate, his drowning himself 
in Lake Dilolo, 327. 
Kotla, the, importance of, in the do¬ 
mestic polity of the Bechuanas, 
15; Shinte’s described, 291; 
ships’, according to the Makololo, 
392. 
Krapf, supposed by Dr. Livingstone 
to be with Shinte, 289. 
Krieger, Commandant Gert, his jus¬ 
tification of slavery, 30 ; negotia¬ 
tions of, with Dr. Livingstone, 35. 
Kuabaoba, the straight-horned rhi¬ 
noceros, 71. 
Kukama, native name of the gems- 
buck, 56. 
Kumadua Lake, lowest point of the 
bason enclosing Lake Ngami, 66 ; 
rising and falling of its waters, 
67, 68; the country of the Bat- 
letli, 85. 
Kumbanzo, an African chinchon- 
aceous tree, 647 ; its bark a re¬ 
medy for fever, 648. 
Kuruman, mission church and set¬ 
tlement at, 8; the station farthest 
inland from the Cape, 9; trade 
established at, 28 ; visited by Dr. 
Livingstone before starting on his 
third journej^, 77 ; Sebituane 
driven from in 1824, 84 ; district, 
desiccation of, its causes, foun¬ 
tains now flowing, 110, 111 ; 
landscape, flora of, 112, 113; 
summer nearly over in March,343. 
Kweelo. See Quilo. 
Kyanite, masses of, on hill ranges, 
570. 
Lacerda, a traveller in the Balonda 
country, 305; his error as to the 
course of the Coanza, 357; his 
death at Cazembe’s town, his 
papers lost, 587. 
Lakes, great, of ancient Africa, 527 ; 
evidences of their gi'adual drain¬ 
age, 528, 529. 
Landeens, the, laid waste the Zam¬ 
besi islands, 636; Caffres, their 
forays on the south bank of the 
Zambesi, 657 ; fines levied by, on 
Senna, 658 ; cruel attack of, on 
LEEBA. 
Senna, 660; expelled the Portu¬ 
guese from Manica, 662 ; con¬ 
sider the w'hites a conquered 
tribe, 664. 
Langebongo, the, a branch of the 
Loeti, 222. 
Languages, directions for the pro¬ 
nunciation of African, 10 vote; 
use of pronouns in the Bechuana, 
13, 14; phrases of, leading to 
confusion from similarity of 
sound, 58; the Sichuana, its co¬ 
piousness, simplicity of constnre- 
tion, and conciseness, 113, 114; 
children’s patois, dialect of the 
Bamapela, 115; African, trace¬ 
able to two families, gradual 
merging of the dialects, 339 ; of 
the Batoka, 555. 
Lattakoo. See Kuruman. 
Lavradio, Count de, his recommen¬ 
dation of Dr. Livingstone to the 
Portuguese, 633. 
Lawrence Mills, Lowell, stamp on 
calico bought from native trad¬ 
ers, 597. 
Lebeole, his admiration of the 
eland, 210; escorts Dr. Living¬ 
stone from Linj’-anti, 515. 
Lechd, or lechwi, w'ater-antelope, 
description of, its habitat, 71, 72; 
hunting of, in a flooded country, 
204, 205. 
Lechulatebe, invitation from, to 
visit the Lake Ngami country, 
53; history of his accession to 
the chieftainship, his unworthy 
treatment of Dr. Livingstone, 63 ; 
seeks to prevent a meeting with 
Sebituane, 69 ; agrees to furnish 
Dr. Livingstone with guides, 75 ; 
quarrel of, with the Makololo, 
198-200; Makololo foray to pu¬ 
nish, 502. 
Leeambye, the. Nee Zambesi. ITin- 
ter landscape on its banks de¬ 
scribed, 212 ; cataracts of, 213 ; 
its geology, its yearly inundation, 
214; pirates of, 234; rapids of, 
237, 238; birds frequenting, 238- 
241 ; species of flying fish found 
in, 241; iguanos and alligators, 
habits of the hippopotami, 241, 
242; its banks at Naliele, birds 
frequenting them, 248, 249 ; un¬ 
healthy season on, 249 ; unin¬ 
habited districts of, teeming with 
animal life, birds described, 252, 
253; its numerous branches a 
hindrance to travellers, 254 ; the 
alligators of, 254, 255 ; marly 
sandstone banks of, 260 ; abun¬ 
dance of animal life following the 
course of, 261; signification of the 
name, 519. 
Leeba, or Loiba, its confluence with 
the Leeambye, 221; its latitude, 
263 ; a navigable river, 264, 265 ; 
beauty and fertility of the coun¬ 
try bordering, 265-267 ; con¬ 
fluence of with the Makondo, 
271; few birds or fish found in, 
273; the Makololo unwilling to 
ascend, 276 ; passage of, 306 ; a 
Makololo village on, projected, 
482 ; confluence with the Lee- 
arabye, the best site, 483 ; larger 
than the Coanza at Massangano, 
canoe descent of, 486. 
