Matabeli tribe, superstition Of, 19,
32, 33, 34, 45; a warrior of tbe,
49; queens of the, 53,54; morals
of tbe, 62; raids by, 102; mode of
warfare, 104; endurance of, 189
Matebi, King, 25
Matope on the Shire, ii. 217
Mats of bark, 182 '
Mauni river, ii. 78
Mavuba, a garden, 49
Mazara boatmen, ii. 283, 289, 292
Mazaro village, ii. 290
Mazinjiri people, ii. 55 ; in flight,
262; fugitives, 263; enraged by
the appearance of a hostage, 269;
Portuguese defeat of the, 276
Mazinjiri and Portuguese war; ii. 223
Mazua, native name of a fruit tree,
ii. 33
Mbewe village, ii. 241, 242, 246
Mboma mountain, ii. 90
Mchesa, the Vulcan of Mashona-
land, 144, 155-160
Meal not regularly carried, 181
Measles, 36
Meat, a fierce squabble about, 135
Medical charlatans, ii. 116
Medicine chest, a hunter’s, 36
„ for hunting, ii. 116
Mexican peone, 298
Military system of the Portuguese,
ii. 46
Milk and honey, missionary promise
of, 67
Milk, queer-looking, ii. 196
Mill, diamond, 13
„ a Syenitic, ii. 167
Miller, Mr., of the African Lakes
Company, ii 241, 243, 268, 270,
290, 297
Mining, diamond, 1 1 , 12
Minstrels of Msenga, ii. 10
Mission stations, Hermansberg, 25;
Hope Fountain, 52; Inyati, 7 5 ;
Livingstonia, ii. 184; Blantyre,
219
Mission steamer at Nyassa, ii. 191
Missionaries, native idea about, 66
,, away from Livingstonia,
ii. 186
Missionary, a persecuted, 52
Missionary Society (London), ,ii.
220
Missionary effort, ii. 43; misdirected,
205
Mjela, a chief, 259, 260, 263
Mjobva river, ii. 64
Mkoma river, ii. 18
Mkondozi river, ii. 78
Mkumbura river, 305, 310
Moghose’s station, 25, 27
Moir, Mr., of Blantyre, ii. 219,222-»
225, 227,' 230, 256, 258, 259,.
296
Molepololi river, 27
Money, precaution about, 208 ; as a
medium of exchange, ii. 48
Monkeys, ii. 203
Montgomery, Colonel, 5
Mopani bush, 43
Mopani trees, 78
Morals, Matabeli, 62; Mashona,
116
Morambala mountain, ii. 278, 282
» superstitions, regarding;
ii. 284,285
Morrison, Mr., engineer, ii. 230
Mortars for millet and rice, ii. 20
Mount Deza, ii. 150
„ Malawe, ii. 273
Mountain scenes, 193, 194
Mountains. Bee under n am e s—
Bonumarungo, Caroeira, Fema,
Jandani, Kafua, Kapirizange,
Lubola, Magombegombe, Man-
ganja, Makomwe, Mboma, Morambala,
Busaka, Umvukwe,
Vunga.
Mourners, hypocrisy of, ii. 137, 256
Mpanga village, ii. 181,193
Mponda, warning about, ii. 169
Msenga slave women, 302 .
Msenga, a town, 310
„ minstrels and conjurers, ii.
10,11
Msenga women, lip-ring of, ii. 20
Msingua, river, 281, 284, 285, 289,
297; ii. 18
Mtande, tribe, ii. 19
Mtavanda, tribe, ii. 19
Mtavara, tribe, ii. 31
Muave, a superstitious compound,
ii. 234 ; custom of using,, 234,
235, 275
Mudzi river, ii. 30
Mufa river, ii. 35
Muliliti, chief of Igova, 182
Murder, unknown among Makori-
kori, 251
Music, Mashona, 140; native, 249;
of the Chibinga dance, ii. 3
Musical instruments, 232, 249
Mutua river, 272
Muzimba people, ii. 53, 65
Mvudzi river, ii. 73
Mvurezi river, ii. 169
Mwendapezi people, ii. 65
Mzungo (meaning Portuguese, or
white man), 208, 286
Nam a q u a partridges, 39
Nanchengwe, a bird, ii. 294
Native customs, danger of interfering
with, ii. 275
Native labour at Tette, ii. 45
„ shrewdness, 137
Nations, vicissitudes of, ii. 53
Nazaras, or slave agents, ii. 126
Neanda, a town, 138
N’gami lake, 10 (note).
Negomo, a Makorikori chief, 216,
239 ,
Nets used in hunting, 115
“ New Valhalla,” the, 51, 59, 67 ;
the final farewell, 71
New Zealand mine at Tati, 41
Nondwe, native name for diver
bird, ii. 294
N’tumbani, a king's grave, 61
Numida Pucherani, ii. 26
Nuts (Arachis), 118
Nyanja (see also Nyassa), ii. 174,
189,191
Nyanja, or Ajawa, tribe, ii. 194
Nyansanga river, ii. 35
Nyassa, road between Tanyanyika
and, ii. 214
Nyassa Lady, steamer, ii. 220;
sinking of the, 259
Nyassa, lake, 7 ; ii. 173,174, 180 ;
tribes on, 192; its extent and
depth, ■ 199; slave dhows on,
203; emerging from, 216; first
glimpse: of, 161
O il, not used for light, ii. 167
Orange Free State, 11
„ river, 11
„ trees, 74
Orators, Mashona, 167
Ordeals of superstition ii. 233, 234
Oreas canna, 135
Ostriches, 143:
Ox, mode of securing an, 261
„ driving, 81, 82
Oxen, killed by lightning, 45 ; difficulty
about, 71, 75; stubborn,
80
Oyengweni, town, 73
Palm baskets, ii. 20
„ sleeping bags, ii. 281
„ wells, ii. 64, 65, 66
Palmero, the infliction of .the, 298 ;
ii. 58
Pamalombe lake, ii. 216
Panama, isthmus of, railway, ii.
215
Pantumbo’s Village, mischief at, ii.
165; its poverty, 167
Partridges, ii. 69
Paterson (Captain), massacre of his
party, 72, 73
Pauw, 47