542 
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 
Salt, manufacture of, 51 
Sand-grouse, 329, 344 
Sandpipers, 27 
Sandstone, 48 
Sansevieria, 182, 223 
Sarcidiornis (knob-nosed duck or goose), 26, 338 
Scenery of B.C.A., 35 
Schizorhis, 333 
Sclater, Capt. B. L., 97, 106, 107, 108, 112, 114, 
117 
Sclater, Mr. P. L., 292 
Scopes umbrella, 342 
Scorpions, 364-5 
Scotch, the, 147 
,, Missions, 66 
,, Settlers, 147 
Scotland, Church of, Mission, 66, 67, 130 
Scott, Rev. D. C. Ruffele, 68, 85, 415-6, 440, 
447 , 453 , 459 , 468, 486 
Scott, Mr. L., 233 
Scott-Elliot, Mr., 233 
Seamen, excellence of native, 457 
Seasons, Rainy and Dry, 39, 40, 211 
Secretary to the Administration, 152 
Secretary Vulture, 285, 329, 337, 346 
Selous, Mr., 77, 292 
Semitic (races), 54 
,, (tongues), 54 
Sena, 83 ; Ci-, 484-5 and Vocabularies 
Senegambia, 286, 329, 346 
Senga country, 72, 141, 156 
,, puku (antelope), 329 
Senga, Ba-, A-, Ci-, 390, 484 and Vocabularies 
Serpa Pinto, Colonel, 53, 81, et seq., 86, 88, 233 
Serpents (see Snakes) 
Serpentarins (see Secretary vulture) 
Serval cat, 288, 289 
Sesamum plant and oil, 223, 428-9 
Settlers, European, 113 
Seven-pounder gun, 102, 105, 106, 12?, 134 
Sharpe, Mr. Alfred, 45, 74, 89, 97, 107-8, 112, 
116, 119, 122, 124, 126, 130, 132, 146, 212, 
291, 296, 310, 326, 450 
Sharrer, Mr., 77, 147, 161 
Sharrer’s Traffic Co., 176, 181 
Sheep, 182 
Shells, 363 
Shikulombwe, Ba-, 77 
Shire Highlands, 27, 45, 48, 61, 62, 66, 77, 88, 
130, 170, 234 
Shire Highlands Shooting Club, 170 
,, Province, 
,, River, 3, 38, 58, 60, 149, 165, 390 [vide 
West Shire, Lower Shire, Upper Shire) 
Shrews, 286, 288 ; Elephant, 288 
Shrikes, 349 
Siege of Mlozi’s stockade, 138-140 
Sikhs, the, 28, 30, 98, 102, 103-4, 105, 117, 118, 
120, 123, 124, 129, 130, 141, 152 
Silva Porto, 60 
Silver, 57 
Simpson, Mr. A. C., 66, 84 
Situtunga (Speke’s Tragelaph), 286, 305, et seq., 
329 
Slavery, 149, 155. 156 
Slave States in W. India, 155 
Slaves, 31, 155 
Slave-sticks, 31, 158 
Slave-trade 149; (worst horrors of), 155-6 
Slave-traders, 115, 119 ; (of ancient times), 155; 
(American), 156 
Slugs, 363 
Smilax yam, 221 
Smith, Lieut. G. de Herries, 136, et seq., 141 
,, Mr. Edgar A., 363 
Smythies, Bishop, 70, 90 
Snails, 363 
Snakes, 356, 359, 362 
Snipe, 343, 354 
Soapstone, 48 
Somaliland, Somalis, 54, 56, 62, 63, 285, 295, 
298 
Songwe River, 94, 303 
Sorcery, 441-2, 446, et seq. 
Sorghum. 426, 429, 436 
South Africa Chartered Company (see British, 
etc.) 
South Africans in B.C.A., 147 
South Nvasa District, 109, 149 
Spathodea, 210 
Speke, Captain, 63 
Speke’s Tragelaph (see Tragelaphus spekei) 
Spiders, 364-5 
Sport (big game shooting), 171 
Spring foliage, tints of, 4 
Stairs, Captain, 89, 114, 115 
Stanley, Mr. H. M., 65, 66 
Starke, Mr., 131 
Starlings (Glossy), 330, 348 
Steamers (on Lake Nyasa), 66, 70, 109 
,, (on Rivers Shire and Zambezi), 98, 109, 
147 
,, (on Lake Tanganyika), 70, 75 
Steere, Bishop, 70 
Stevenson, Mr. Gilbert, 105, 116 
,, Mr. James, 71 
,, ,, the (Steamer) (see James 
Stevenson ) 
Stevenson Road, 71 
Stewart, Mr. James, 67 
Stewart, Captain F. T., 136, 144, 146 
Stick-insects, 373 
Stilt-plover, 343, 354 
Stipa grass, 213 
Stockade, Mlozi’s, 137, et seq. 
Storks, black [Anastomus), 27, 342 
,, saddle-billed [Mycteria), 17, 342 
,, marabu, 27, 342 
,, (generally), 353 
Stork, H.M.S., 82 
Strawberries at Zomba, 174 
String, native, 459 
Strophantluis drug, 182, 224-5, 44 0_I 
Strychnos, 226, 428 
Sudan, 329, 346, 379, 453 
Sudanese, 117 
Sugar, sugar-cane, 182, 427, 429 
Sultan, Arab, 23, 24, 31 
,, of Zanzibar, 76, 90, 118 
Sunbirds, 347 
t^ies genus, 297 
Swahili (people), 64, 91, 104 
,, (language), 478, 479, 486 
Swallows, 332, 350 
Swann, Mr. A. J., 95, 96, 97, 144 
Swifts, 334, 350 
