INDEX 
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Pay of native labourers, 168 
Pelele ring, 423-4 
Pelicans, 343, 353 
Peppers, red and green, 428-9 
Pereiras, the, 59 
Perissodactyla , 291 
Persia, Persians, 155-6, 159 
Petre, Sir George, 81 
Petrodromus, 288 
Pettitt, Messrs.: Mr. Harry- 84, 292 
Phacocharus, 296, 298, 329 
Phillips, Lieutenant-Commander, 138 
Pkragmiles reed, 217, 291 
Physiological description of the Negro (see 
Negro) 
Pigs, 296, 429 (see Bush pig and Wart hog) 
Pigeons, 344, 354, 434 
Pinda Marsh, 38 
Pineapple, 429 
Pioneer, H.M.S., 124 
Pipes, 459, 461 
Pipits, 331 
Pistia stratiotes, 17 
Planters, European, 160, 163, et seq. 
Plantation (clearing of), 169 
Plovers, 27, 343, 354 
Pocock, Mr. R. I., 365 
Pcccilogale, 290 
Paocepkalus, 334 
Poles (Austrian), 146-7 
Polyboroides typicus (naked-cheeked Iiawk), 346, 
352 
Polyglotta Afncana, 156 
Poole, Dr. Wordsworth, 136, 138, 143, 179 
Population of B.C.A. Protectorate, 146-7 
Porcupine, 291 
Porphyrio , 337 
Porridge, native, 
Port Herald, 117, 125, 154, 165 
Portal, Sir Gerald, 91, 118 
Portuguese, 52, 56, 59, 63, 82, 88, 147, 155, 157, 
201 (hospitality of), 201; 391, 426, 429, 434 
Portuguese Foreign Office, 81 
,, Government, 88 
,, half-castes (“Black Portuguese”), 59, 
69 . I 5 6 . 391 
Portuguese East Africa; Zambezia, 59, 78, 81, 
134, 156-7, 292, 318, 377 
Postage stamps of B.C.A., 129, 149 
Postal service of B.C.A., 148, 171 
Potatoes, 427, 429; Sweet-, 427, 429 
Potamochcerus, 296-7, 329 
Pottery, native, 459 
,, ,, old, dug up near Lake Nyasa, 55, 
459 
Poultry, 182 
Pozo, Ci-, 485 and Vocabularies 
Pratincoles, 27 
Prefixes, Bantu (see Bantu) 
Printing at Zomba, 205 
Procavia, 291 
Protea , II, 223, 428 
Proteles , 285 
Protectorate (proclamation of British), 86, 96, 147 
Protopterns, 359 
Psendogyps, 285 
Pterocarpus, 209, 220 « 
Pterodes, 344, 352 
1 Puff-adder, 359 
Puku antelope, 286, 312-3; Senga Puku, 312, 
329 
Pumpkins, 329, 426, 427 
Python, 359 
Quagga, 285, 295-6 
Quail, 351 
Quartz, 48, 50, 51 
Quebrabaijo rapids, 60 
Queen, H.M. the, 25, 91 
“Queen’s Regulations,” 154 
Quelimane, 55, 60, 78, 82, 148, 156, 391, 485 
Rails, 27, 337 
Rain, 42; “rain-makers,” 451-2 
Rainfall of B.C.A., 36, 42 
Rainy season, 39, 42, 170 
Ramakukane, 69 
Rankin, Mr. D., 69, 79, 81 
Raphia (see Palms) 
Raphicerus skarpei, 309, 310, 329 
Raptorial birds, 337, 344, 352 
Rat, 291 
Ratel, 290 
Raven, great billed, 11, 330; - black and 
white, 330 
Reed buck, 311, 312, 329 
Reeds, 3, 209, 217 
Religion of the Natives, 449, et seq. 
Rendall, Dr. Percy, 287, 288, 322-4 
Revenue of B.C.A., 150 
Rhinoceros, 292, 328 
,, horns, 182, 292 
Rhoades, Lieutenant-Commander, 138, 360 
Rhodes, Right Hon. Cecil J., Si, 117, 121, 129 
,, Herbert, 67 
Rhynchocyon, 286, 288 
Rice, 426, 429, 437 
Rifu, 124 
River, word-picture of a, 1 
Roads made by Administration, 114, 149 
Road-making, 114, 153 
Roan Antelope, 317-8, 329 
Robberies, Highway, 107, 108, 132, 149 
Robertson, Commr. Hope, 109, 122 
Rodents of B.C.A., 290 
Rollers, 336, 351 
Roman Catholic Missionaries, 200, 201 
Roscher, Dr. Ernest, 64 
Ross, Mr. A. Carnegie, 97 
Rubber, 160, 182, 226, 464 
Rufiji R., 285, 286, 329 
Rugaruga, 158, 392 
Rukuru, R., 137, et seq. 
Rukwa, Lake, 45, 95, 390, 484 
Ruo District, 154 
,, River, 58, 83, 87, 292, 390; Falls of, 40; 
Upper Ruo, 43 
Ruvuma R., 58, 62, 324, 391. 480, 485 
S-, Mr., 85 
Sabseans, 54 
Sable Antelope, 4, 286, 317, 329 
Sacred Ibis, 27, 342 
Sahara desert, 286 
Saidi Mwazungu, 102, 104, 144, 154 
Salisbury, Lord, 80, 88, 96, 109 
Salt, 51, 438, 471 
