INDEX 
533 
Tanganyika for Mozambique, 96; returns to 
England, 96; made a C.B., 96; appointed 
Commissioner for B.C.A. and Administrator of 
the B.S.A. Co.’s territories North of Zambezi, 
97 ; returns to B.C.A., 97 ; arrives at Zomba 
and starts for Mponda’s, 100 ; leaves for Lake 
Nyasa on Christmas Day, 1891, after Captain 
Maguire’s death, 105 ; makes war on Zarafi, 
105-6 ; troubles with European settlers, 108 ; 
“Job” experiences, 108; imposes Hut Tax, 
no; commences Land settlement, 112; spends 
Christmas of 1892 at Blantyre, 115; goes on 
expedition against slave-traders on Upper Shire, 
116; goes to South Africa to confer with Mr. 
Rhodes, 117 ; divides B.C.A. into administra¬ 
tive districts (1893), 119; restores order at Fort 
Lister after attempted assassination of Captain 
Johnson; proceeds on 2nd Makanjira expedition, 
121 ; founds Fort Maguire, 126; returns to 
England (1894), 126; organises Civil Service of 
Protectorate, 129; establishes postal service, 129; 
proceeds to India, 129; returns to B.C.A., 129; 
proceeds against Matipwiri, Zarafi, and Mponda, 
133, et seq.; accepts Mponda’s surrender, 134; 
continues campaign against Arabs, 136 ; lands 
at Karonga and starts for Arab stockades, 138 ; 
interview with Mlozi during truce ; offers Arabs 
terms, 140 ; resumes bombardment, 140; enters 
stockade, 142; tries Mlozi and sanctions his 
execution, 143 ; falls ill with black-water fever, 
143 ; returns to England on leave of absence 
(1896), 146; introduces cash currency (English 
coinage) into B.C.A., 149; experiences in 
regard to Black-water fever, 179; botanical 
collections of, 233 ; views regarding elephants, 
291-2; classification of zebras, 292, et seq.; of 
antelopes, 309, birds, 333 ,et seq.; feeling towards 
the African goat, 432; receives “war” messages 
from Yao chiefs, 469 
Awernba, 135, 145,157, 389,421, 423,430, 468,470 
Babisa (see Bisa) 
Baboon, 286-7 
Bain, Rev. Mr., 73 
Baker, Sir Samuel, 292 
Baloi or Balui, 77 
Bamboos, 4, 7, 8 
Bananas, 427, 429 ; -wild, 217 
Bandawe (place), 70, 90 
- Sergeant-Major, 130, 131, 142 
Bangweolo, Lake, 39, 45, 61, 64, 65 
Bank (A. L. Co.’s), 150 
Bantu languages, 54, 478, et seq.; origin of the, 
54, 479, 480; prefixes of, 482, et seq. ; proposi¬ 
tions defining, 481, 482 
Bantu negroes, 55, 389, 479 
Baobab tree, 20, 221, 223, 229 
Baptist Mission, 189 
Barbets, 332, 350 
Barutse, 65, 66, 69, 77, 156, 190 
Baskets, native, 458 
Basuto,—land, 65, 156; -ponies, 164 
Batoka or Batonga, 58, 77, 233 
Batrachians, 359 
Bats, 288 
Beads, 422, 471 
Beans (native, cultivated), 426, 427, 429 
Bechuana, —land, 65, 66, 77 
Bedford, Admiral, 121 
Bees, 374, 381 
Bee-eaters, 335, 351 
Beetles, 196, 368, 385 
Beira, 55, 56, 487 
Belcher, Mr. Ralph, 97 
Belgians, 71 
Bell, Mr. F. Jeffrey, 365 
Berndt, Captain, 137 
Bicycles in B.C.A., 164, 187 
Birds, 11, 329, et seq. 
-and crocodiles, 355 
- singing, of Africa, 195, 332 
Birth customs (see Customs, Ethnology) 
Bisa, Ba-, 62, 71, 389, 479; -- Ci-, 480, 4S4, 
and Vocabularies; - Lu-, 71, 156 
Blacksmiths, native, 51 
Black-water Fever, 19, et seq., 172, 178-9, et seq., 
184-5 
Blantyre, 27, 28, 66, 86, 130, 149, 154, 161, 166, 
et seq. , 189 
- “atrocities” (Commission thereon), 68 
Bleek, Dr., 449 
Bocarro, Jaspar, 57, 58 
Boma (a stockade), 130, 175 
Bombax , 210 
Boo ; see Tra^elaphus angasi 
Books in Central Africa, 188 
Borcissits palms, I, 213, 214, 231 
Boroma, 234 
Botanists, 211 
Botany, 207, 211 
Botanical gardens at Zomba, 151, 174 
Bovida . Bovina, 309, et seq. 
Bowhill, J. O., 440 
Boyce, Dr., 104, 125, 144 
Brachystegia, 229 
Bradshaw, Lieut.-Colonel, 136, et seq., 141 
Brass, 463 
Brass wire drawing, 463 
Brickmaking, 173 
British Central Africa : name first given, 96; first 
European to enter, 58 ; general situation in, in 
1889, 76; inaccessibility of, in 1889, 77; de¬ 
clared a Protectorate, 86 ; first portion secured, 
92 ; declared a British Sphere of Influence, 96; 
eastern boundaries of, 146; devastated by slave 
trade, 156; a field for coffee planting, 164; 
steamers of, 147 ; trade of, 147 ; a clearly- 
marked Zoographical sub-region, 285 
British Central Africa Administration, 107, (Ap¬ 
pendix to Chapter IV.) 153-4, 158; attitude of,, 
towards slave trade, 156, et seq. 
British Central Africa Gazette, i 54 
British Concession, Chinde, 164 
British Government discouraged in Zambezia, 63; 
unable to assist settlers against Arabs in 1889,78; 
considers financial position in B.C.A., 126, 129 
British South Africa Company, 36, 50, 81, 89, 
(agreement for support of B.C.A. Administration) 
97, (subsidies of) 117, 126, 129, (assumes direct 
administration of its northern territory, 1895)- 
129; 146, 148, 158 
British subjects in B.C.A., 146-7 
Bua river, 49 
Bubalis, 321 
Buchanan, Mr. John, 66, 68, 74, 76, 77, 85, 86,. 
96, 103, 160, 161, 233 
