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burial customs, 433, et seq. ; witchcraft, sorcery, 
and cannibalism, 446, et seq.; ideas of God, 
ancestor-worship, belief in an evil spirit, 449, 
et seq.; divination, magic, rain wizards, super¬ 
stitions, 450, et seq. ; fables, 452 ; houses, 453, 
et seq.; villages, 456; canoes, 456 ; weaving, 
457 ; pottery, string, leather work, 459-60; 
dyes, metal work, 460, 463 ; musical instru¬ 
ments, 464-7 ; justice, 468, et seq.; war, 470; 
property, 471; trade, 471; diseases, 473, et seq. 
Euan-Smith, Sir Charles, 76 
Eucalyptus, 29, 175 
Euphorbia, 174, 220, 222, 224 
Eurafricans, 66 
Eurasians, 147 
European (First to enter B.C.A.), 58 
Europeans, 28, 113, 146, 149 
European officials, 24 
,, settlers, 146, 149 (relations with natives), 
182, et seq. 
Executions for murder in B.C.A., 154 
Falcons, 352 
Faulkner, Mr., 66; -’s son, 66 
Felis, 289 
Fenwick, George, 68, 69 
,, Mrs., 69 
Ferns, 14, 215 
Ferns, Tree, 7, 215 
Fever, 167, 179, 198, 474-5 
Fever, Black-water, 19, et seq., 172-3, 178-9, 
et seq., 184-5, 475 
Fibre, fibre plants, 223 
Ficus, 162, 220, 226, 228 
Fig trees, sycomore, 3, 4, 162, 226, 228 
Finfoot, 337, 352 
Fipa, A, 389, 392 ; -Ki-, 484 and Vocabu¬ 
laries 
Fire (originated sometimes by lightning), 439 ; 
how made by natives, 438 ; customs as to, 439 
Fish, 359, 360, 361-2 
Fish-eagle, 27, 345 
Fishing-owl, 337 
Flamingoes, 26, 341-2, 352 
Flannel, 185 
Fleas, 368 ; Burrowing-(see Jigger) 
Fletcher, Corporal W., 130 
,, Mr. S. Hewitt-, 130 
Flies, 350, 375, et seq. 
Flogging of Natives, 169 
Flora of B.C.A., 207, et seq., 233, et seq. 
,, mountain, 14 
Flowers (beauty of), 7, 1 r, 172, 177, 208, 211 
,, (wild), 11, 14, 177, 208 
Fly-catchers, 350 
Foa, M. (French traveller), 290, 323 
Fogs on the rivers, 42 
Foliage, spring, 4 
F"olk-lore, 452 
Food, native, items of, 436; preparation of, 436 
Foot, Consul, 68, 79 
Foreign Office (action in regard to Blantyre 
atrocities), 68; (modus vivendi with Portugal), 
81 ; written to by missionaries, 108; 150 
Forests, 35, 208, 216 
Forsyth-Major, Dr., 52, 297 
Fort Anderson, 119, 149, 154 
„ Hill. 145 
Fort Johnston, 61, 100, 105, 106, 109, 132, 135, 
143, 154, 189 
Fort Lister, 119, 120, 133 
,, Maguire, 103, 126 
„ Mangoche, 134, 146 
,, Sharpe, 117 
Fotheringham, L. Monteith, 72-3, et seq., 96, 97, 
105 
Fowl, domestic, 434, 480 
Foxes, 2S5 
Francolin, 11, 347, 351 
Free Church Mission (Livingstonia), 66, 70, 135 
French, the, 146, 147 
,, Mr. (P.M.G., Cape Colony), 126 
,, Evangelical Mission, 77 
Fruits, 226 
Fruit-bats, 288 
Fungi, 428 
Fill language, 479 
Fvvambo, 95 
Galago, 287-8 
Gallinules, 27 
Gambia, River, 288 
Game, Big, regulations dealing with, 150, 296, 
3 ° 3 > 2>zb,et se ‘l- 
Games, native children’s 
Gamitto, Captain, 60 
Ganda, Ba-, Bu-, Lu-, 479, 480, 483, and 
Vocabularies 
Gardenia tree, 209 
Gardens at Zornba, 150-1 
Garnets, 51 
Garrod, Professor A, H., 309, 333 
Gazelles, 285 
Gazette, B.C.A., 154 
Geese, 353, 434 
Geese, Egyptian, 26, 338, 434 
,, Spur-winged, 26, 337, 434 
,, Knob-nosed, 338 
Genet, 289 
Geographical Society, Royal, 63 
,, ,, ,, Scottish, 79 
Geology of B.C.A., 47 
German Government, 94, 148 
,, Steamer, 137, 143 
Germans in B.C.A., 147 
Germany, 85 
Giraffe, 150, 286, 298, 328 
Giraud, Monsieur, 39 
Gladioli , 212 
Glave, Mr., 122, 124 
Gnu, 320, 321, 328; Nyasaland Gnu, 318, 321, 
et seq. 
Goanese, 59 
Goat, the African, 432, et seq., 456 
Goats, 309 
Goat-suckers, 335, 350 
God, Bantu Negroes’ idea of, 449 
Gold, 21, 49, 50, 56, 57, 463 
Gomphia trees, 4 
Gordon Cumming, Mr. Walter, 136, 138, 141, 
r 43“4 
Gori or Goli Stick (see SlaveSticks) 
Granite, 4, 17 (footnote), 48 
Grant, Mr. J. A., 90, 118 
Graphite, 51 
Grass, 193, 214, 218 
