710 
INDEX. 
THAU. 
of imports during five montfis, 
635; profit, staples of its trade 
with the interior, price of pro¬ 
visions, 636 ; extent of gold-pro¬ 
ducing country round, 638; rich 
crops of, irrigation unneeded, 639 ; 
earthquakes near, 641; state of 
education and religion in, 643, 
■ 644; annual floods of the Zam¬ 
besi at, 644; cotton grown at, 
manufacture of oil, 645; medical 
resources of, 647 ; funeral at, 
652 ; departure from, 654. 
Thau, the Egyptian, resembling the 
Bakwain God, 124. 
Thermometer, heights of the, por¬ 
tending rain, 160; heights at 
Unku, 167; heights of, in eastern 
Africa, 624. 
I'hirst, sufferings from, 79. 
Thorn-bearing plants of Africa, 345, 
346. 
Thracians, njefu eaten by, 664. 
Thunder without clouds, 596. 
Thutsa, the salt spring of, 159. 
Tianyane, anew species of antelope, 
209. 
Tiger, the, India trap for, 138. 
Tipoia, a hammock, 375. 
Tlakneapitse, a quickly - fading 
African wild flower, 542. 
Tlapano, a prophet of the Makololo, 
86, 87. 
Tlolo, transgression, 552; various 
accidents accounted, 577. 
Tlomtla, a dead mowana at, 162. 
Toads, fascinated by fire, 145; two 
varieties of Batrachia, 487. 
Tobacco, plantations of, in Shinte’s 
town, 290 ; leaves dried, pounded 
into snuff, 318; height of, plants 
in Angola, 403. 
Toddy palm-tree, 411; cocoa-nut 
palm, a substitute for yeast, 639. 
Tofulo, a hill seen from Zumbo, 
586. 
Tolo, the, see koodoo, 56. 
Toluane, a plant useful in curdling 
milk, 160. 
Tomba Ngama, volunteers the loan 
of a canoe, 575. 
Tortoises, land, their habits, shells 
prized by native Africans, 135. 
Totelo, the, toll demanded at, 335. 
Town, remains of a deserted Ba- 
toka, 534. 
Trade in skins of the Bakalahari, 
50; staples of the Portuguese 
with the Balonda, 289. See Com¬ 
merce. 
Traders dependent on missionaries, 
33 ; English, offence given by, to 
the Boers, 35; Boerish, in for¬ 
bidden goods, 36; slave, usual 
policy of, 181: good linguists the 
most successful, 191 ; native 
Africans, 358, 359 ; half-caste, 
meeting with a party of, from 
Bihe, 359 ; native, bad system 
pursued with, 502. 
Trap, the substratum of the Kuru- 
man country, 112; fragments of 
the old schists in, accounted for, 
474. 
Travelling, privations of, in Africa, 
42; precautions preserving health 
in, 572 ; average day's march in, 
615. 
Trees destroyed by long-continued 
TUSKS. 
inundation, 261; petrified on the 
Chiponga, 572, 673; cause of 
their scrubbiness near Tete, 625. 
Trocheamer, an instrument for 
measuring progress, 59 note. 
Trogon, the, peculiar note of, 261. 
Trombeta, estate and plantations 
of the sub-commandant at, 387, 
388. 
Trotter, Admiral, newspapers re¬ 
ceived from, 672. 
Trough form of the centre of Africa, 
its geological structure explained, 
474,475. 
Tsepe, the springbuck, 103. 
Tsessebe, the, its tenacity'of life,257. 
Tsetse, on the banks of the Tau- 
manak'le, 75; encountered by 
Dr. Livingstone’s party near the 
Mababe, 79; described, 80; ani¬ 
mals to which its bite is fatal, 
effects of the bite, 81,83; pre¬ 
cautionary measures against, 83; 
on the Sanshureh, 174; ten oxen 
lost by, 177 ; the Banyeti unable 
to rear domestic animals on ac¬ 
count of, 212; latitude of their 
habitat on the Leeambye, 214 ; 
Dr. Livingstone turned back by, 
221; districts enclosing Linyanti, 
227 ; connection of, with the ele¬ 
phant, 260 ; cause' of Londa's 
freedom from, 337 ; Londa only 
of late years free from, 338 ; in 
early times probably infested 
longa Panza’s coimtry, 352 ; 
found on the Lucalla, 404 ; near 
the Makondo, 487 ; between Na- 
meta and Sekhosi, 499 ; insect 
preying on, ih .; either bank of 
the Zambesi, eastwards, infested 
by, 507 ; patch passed by night, 
515 ; on the banks of the Lekone, 
527 ; night marches on account 
of, 534 ; herds slaughtered by 
Sebituane on account of, 548 ; on 
the Chipongo, magnified drawing 
of, 571; return of, with larger 
game to the Zambesi, 575; former 
pasture-grounds infested by, 583 ; 
infest the country of the Bam- 
biri, 606 ; the district of Tete 
free from, 636. 
Tsipa, small African ocelot, 50. 
Tsitla, a root, used as a substitute 
for corn, 80; mode of obtaining 
salt from the, 270. 
Tuane, the lynx, 50. 
Tuba Mokoro, headman of Dr. 
Livingstone’s Barolse boatmen, 
533. 
Tufa covering large districts of 
country. 111, 112; changing to 
limestone, 233; freshwater shells 
in, evidences of the ancient 
physiognomy of Africa, 527 . 
Turtles, water, good for food, 490. 
Tusks, elephant’s, Lechulatube’s 
offer of, to Dr. Livingstone, 68; 
his offer of, as price of a gun, 75 ; 
Sekeletu’s gift of, 189 ; destroyed 
by fire, 191; taken by Dr. Liv¬ 
ingstone to exchange with the 
Portuguese, 236; given by Sechele 
for “ gun medicine,” 258 ; various 
weights of, in Angola, 438, 439 ; 
the heaviest, from Luba, 458 ; 
increase in size on approaching 
the equator, 564. 
WASHINGTON. 
Tzo, the, a branch of the Embarrah, 
67. 
Ue, the, a sand stream, 611; its 
sandstone bank, 616. 
Ulva, birthplace of Dr. Living¬ 
stone’s father, 1; conversion of 
the Roman Catholics of, 2. 
TJnguesi, the, flows towards the 
centre of Africa, 527 ; passage of, 
geological structure of the coun¬ 
try, 533. 
Unicorn’s Pass, the, scenery of, 
changed from old times, sketch 
of the landscape, 150. 
Unku, the, verdure of, 167. 
Vaal River, the, noisy attrition of 
rocks in, 598. 
Vardon, Major, his interest in AD 
rican discovery, 46 ; experiment 
of, testing the virulence of tsetse 
bites, 82; large horn brought to 
England by, 85 note; letter of, 
describing a battle between three 
lions and a buffalo, 139, 140 
note; new species of the antelope 
named after, 356 note. 
Vegetable diet, bad effects of an ex¬ 
clusive, 26. 
Vegetation, differences of, in the 
same latitudes of Africa and Aus¬ 
tralia, 97. 
Victoria falls, arriv^al of the Mate- 
bele near, 499; an obstacle to 
descending the Zambesi, 507 ; Dr. 
Livingstone resolves to visit, 518 ; 
beauty of the scene, 519 ; detailed 
description of, 520, 521 ; fissure 
in the rock described, 521; spray 
columns, breadth of the river, 
522; accessible part of the fis¬ 
sure, period of its formation, 523; 
superstitions connected with, 523, 
524; Dr. Livingstone’s garden 
above, 525. 
Villages of the Barotse, built on 
mounds, 314. 
Vinegar, an antidote to the Ngot- 
uane poison, 113. 
Vines, with tuberous root, recom¬ 
mended to the Cape farmers, 100; 
grape-bearing, unexpected dis¬ 
covery of, 169 ; varieties of wild, 
on the Zambesi, 616. 
Vungwe or Mvungwe, the, rocky 
hills, watershed of the sand rivu¬ 
lets of East Africa, 610, 611. 
■\Vader, the crook-beaked, of the 
Leeambye, its manner of feeding, 
253. 
Waggon-travelling in Africa, 94. 
Wales, New South, fossil trees of, 
found also in Africa, 573. 
Wallace, allusion to, 7. 
Walsh, Dr., leaves quinine for Dr. 
Livingstone, 672. 
Wardlaw, Dr., Dr. Livingstone’s 
instructor in theology, 6. 
Wars, the slave-trade, or cattle¬ 
stealing, invariably the cause of 
African, 213. 
Washington, Captain, document 
given by, for publication, 665 ; 
information obtained Irom, on the 
