INDEX 
535 
Cooking, native methods of, 436, et seq. 
Coots, 27 
Copaifera, 210, 220, 224, 229 
Copper, 51, 460, 463 
Coreopsis flowers, 7, 212 
Cormorants, 27, 342, 353 
Cost of living in B.C. A., 17S 
Cotterill, Mr. H. B., 67 
Cotton, 160 
Courts of Justice, foundation of, 114 
Coutinho, Lieut., 87, et seq. 
Crabs, land, 363 
Cranes, 338, 352 
,, Crowned. 27, 338, 340-1 
Crawshay, Mr. Richard, 74, 94, 97, 116, 135, 
295 , 298, 312-3, 3 22 , 325, 3 2 6 
Crickets, 374 
Crinum lilies, 209 
Crocodiles, 73, 343 , 355-6, 361 
Cross, Dr. D. Kerr, 73, 74, 95, 135, 137, 180, 
184, 442, 449, 451, 473, et seq. 
Crotalaria, 210, 428-9 
Croton, 224 
Crow, 11, 330 (South African, 330), 349 
Crown land, 113 
Crystals, Quartz, 51 
Cuambo (Chuambo) I- (I-cuambo), 485-6 and 
Vocabularies 
Cuckoos, 332, 350 
Cucumbers, 426, et seq. 
Cullen, Commander Percy, 49, 51, 138, et seq., 
140, 141 
Cultivated plants, 426, et seq., 144 
Cumming (see Gordon Cumming) 
Cunningham, Mr. J. F., 115 
Customs, Native: Birth, 416 
,, ,, Burial, 444, et seq. 
„ ,, Death, 443 
,, ,, Initiation, 409, et seq. 
,, ,, Marriage, 411, et seq. 
Customs (fiscal), Organization of B.C.A., no 
Cycads, 7, 214 
Cynoglossum, 212 
Cypresses (at Blantyre), 29, 175 
,, Mlanje (see Cedars) 
Daily Telegraph , 66 
Damaliscus {Tszsstbe antelope), 286, 309, 326, 329 
Dances, native, 409, 411, 452 
Darter (Tlotus), 3, 343 
Date palms, wild, 2, 7 
Dau (Arab sailing vessel), 102, 103, 125, 148, 153 
Decency, sense of, among natives, 419 
Decle, M. Lionel, 115 
Dedza or Deza, Mount, 45 
Deep Bay, 94 
Depth of water on Chinde bar, 79; -Kongone 
bar, 78 
Devil (Natives’ idea of a), 44Q 
Devoy, Sergt.-Major, 136, 138, 140 
“ Dhdl,” 426 
Dhow (see Dau) 
Diamonds, 51 
Disa, ground-orchis, 211 
Diseases of Natives, 439, 473, et seq. 
Dissotis, 7 
Districts of B.C.A. Protectorate, 118-9, 154 
Divination rod, 451 
Dog (Native), 433 
Domasi, 130 
Domestic animals, 429, et seq. 
Don lira, S.S., 102, 103-4, 116, 121, 136, 143 
Donkeys, 379, 434-5 
Dorcatherium, 285, 310 
Doves, 11 
Drugs, 222, 440 
Drums, 460 
Dry season, 42 
Duala language of West Africa, 61 
Ducks, 26, 338, 353, 434; tree ducks, 26, 338 
Duckweed, Giant (Pisiia stratiotes), 17 
Duff Macdonald, Rev. Alex., 68, 412, 416, 444 
Duncan, Mr. Jonathan, 160, 161 
Durban, 164, 179 
Durrha grain, 429 
Dutch in B.C.A., 147 
Duyker antelope, 309, 310, 329 
Dyes, 460 
Eagle, Bateleur, 345, 352; Warlike, crested, 345, 
352: Fish, 27, 345, 352 
Earthworms, 365 
Ebony, 220, 224, 228 
Edentates, 321 
Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, 161 
Edwards, Lieut.-Colonel (Lieut., Major), 117, 120, 
122, et seq., 126, 132, 133, 134, et seq., 141, 143, 
146, 152, 443, 450 
Eggs as food, 437 
Egrets, 1, 27, 342 
Egypt, 480 
Eland, 305, 329 
E/eeis palm, 35 
Electric Fish ( Malapterurus), 
Elephants, 29, 30, 291-2, 435 
Eleusine ( Maere, etc., small grain), 426, 429, 437 
Elmslie, Dr., 392 
Elton, Capt. Fred, 66, 67 
Eltz, Herr von, 117 
Emba, Aw- (see Awemba) ; Emba, Ki-, 480, 484 
and Vocabularies 
Emba, Lu-, 189 
English (in B.C.A.), 147 
„ perverse inaccuracy of the -- in spelling 
foreign names, 62, 487 
English coinage, 149 
Eqiuis, 295-6 
Eriosema, 210 
Erythrina, 209, 227 
Erythrophlaum, 224, 441 
Ethnology, 392, 409 ; Ethnological characteristics 
of the natives of B. C. A. ; initiation cere¬ 
monies, 409, et seq. ; marriage customs, 411, 
et seq. ; customs relating to birth ; procur¬ 
ing abortion, 417 ; naming of children, 417, 
418; change of names, 418; clothing, 418, 
419, et seq. ; sense of decency, 419; hair¬ 
dressing, 421, et seq.; ornaments, tatooing, 
422-3 ; ear, nose, and lip appendages, 423-4; 
deformation of teeth, 424; agriculture, 424, 
et seq. ; cultivated plants, 426, et seq. ; domestic 
animals, 429. ct seq.; hunting, 435-6 ; fishing, 
436; food and cooking, 436, et seq.; fire 
making, 438 ; ideas about death and disease, 
439> 443 i therapeutics, 444, et seq.; ordeals by 
poison and otherwise, 441,468; death and 
