Anzichi, literally “ Inland,” i. 3
Arabs.—camp of slaves, ii. 145 ; characteristics,
i. 40; dhows, employment of, i.
48; incidents of slave-trading, ii. 169;
slave-traders, ii. 124, 133; cunning of,
' ii. 154; on the Congo, ii. 139; overtaken,
ii. 142 ; stations to be avoided, i.
40; trading communities, ii. 360, 363
Arabs taken down river, ii. 168
Arachis hypogea, ii. 353
Area drained by rivers, ii. 348; by navigable
water, ii. 366
Ariel, H.M.S. i. 86 (note)
Armament of an expedition, i;. 47
Armed followers of Ngalyema, i. 362, 363,
365
Armlets, i. 428
Arntz, Professor, on treaties, ii. 380
“ Artful dodgers,” ii. 246, 247
Arthington mission, i. 496
Articles for barter and trade, i. 156, 157
jliilBincluded in the stores, i. 285
Aruwimi Kiver, ii. 115
Assistant chief, qualifications of an, i. 466
Assistants, disappointing, ii. 244-246;
successful, ii. 245
“ Association International du Congo,” its
objects, i. 51, 52; sovereignty ceded to
the, ii. 225
Austro-Hungarian committee, i. 36
Avarice of aborigines, i. 46
Axle tree, a rotten, i. 316
Ba-bangi tribe, the, i. 295
Babari tribe, i. 506
Babwende territory, i. 30
Bacillus Mdlarise, ii. 319
“ Bad spirits in the woods,” i. 223, 224
Bagamoyo, i. 40, 45, 48
Bagenyu tribe, ii. 360
Baggage of Europeans, i. 285
Bahamba tribe, ii. 170 ; villages, ii. 113
Bahunga tribe, ii. 122, 151, 170; marauders,
ii. 133, 134, 137
Banana Creek, i. 77,85,109, 116; ii. 228,
282, 468
garden, a, i. 500
groves, i. 432, 518; ii. 99, 136,193
Point, i. 29,31,59, 62-64, 71, 91,105,
108, 149
Bananas, ii. 246, 357
Banfunu tribe, i. 406, 505
Bangala, tribe, ii. 21, 24, 25, 44, 56, 76,79,
80-83, 85, 172 ; justice, ii. 176
Bangweolo, ii. 340; lake, ii. 358, 359: see
also Lake Bemba.
Bankruptcy of Congo merchants, i. 50
Bankwa of Kinshassa, i. 375
Banning, Mons., ii. 394
Banquet at Yivi, i. 153, 154
Banunu tribe, i. 518
Banyema tribe, ii. 360 .
Banza, a village, i. 161; Chibweta, n 165;
Kimpunzu, i. 162, 163; Kinlele, i. 165 ;
Kulu, i. 135, 161, lßß, 165; ii. 215;
Lungu, i. 161, 162, 165; Manteka, ix.
214, 299, 303; Mbuba, ii. 207; Mgan-
gila, i. 165; JSfkosi, ii. 215; Sombo, i.
161, 163; Uvana, i. lbl, 162, 165, 197,
198, 199; Vivi, i. 129, 133
Baobabs, i. 355, 504; ii. 5
Baptist missionaries, i. 225; missions, |
496; at San Salvador, i. 13; Missionary
Society, i. 13; school, native children at
the, ii, 208
Barga, ss. i. 29, 67
Bargaining in Congo-land, i. 137
Barometer variations, ii. .’•! 1
Barrack life and Congo life, ii. 265
Barter amon^aborigines, i. 463; and trade,
articles for African, i. 156,157
Bartering, i. 374,383, 384,444,500; ii. lo,
Ba1r6th, ,8 D3 r., the explorer, ii. 385
description of the Shari Biver, ii. 131
Barua tribe, ii. 360; villages, ii. 113
Barumba tribe, ii. 170
Basaka fishing hamlets, ii. 113
Basazza people, i. 429
Basoko or Basongo, ii. 115,119; spears, u.
356
Basokos, a fine people, ii. 123
Basongo: see Basoko.
Bastian, Dr., the German traveller, l. 13,
Bakanga tribe, ii. 38
Baker, Sir Samuel, ii. 358
Bakonde tribe, ii. 360
Bakongo, i. 137,148,220 ; ii. 209; traders,
jealousy of, i. 309; ivory traders, i. 321
Baknos tribe, ii. 360
Bakumira, ii. 345
Bakumu tribe, ii. 360
Balegga tribe, ii. 360
Ballay, M., i. 231; ii. 185, 395
Balui, ii. 43; pirates, ii. 68, 69, 70; river,
ii. 70, 345
Balunda tribe, ii. 360
Bamarungu tribe, ii. 360
Bambarre, i. 43
Bamfumu or IVambundu, i. 323
Bamu Island, i. 389, 395, 396, 505
Banana, i. 75,76,79,81,83,87, 92; ii. 310,
319, 320, 340
34; ii. 387
Basundi, i. 73
Baswa Palis, ü. 359; fishermen, ii. 134
Bateke, i. 73, 137, 148, 513; ii. 28; tribe,
• i. 295, 407; ivory traders, i. 294; sign
of “ not guilty,” i. 373; ivory trade
of the, i. 384
Baths, advice about, ii. 326, 329
Batuki tribe, ii. 38, 43, 71
Bavranga, ii. 345
Bayneston, i. 253; ii. 298; hill, i. 254,
255
Bays of Lake Leopold, i. 437
Bazombo traders, jealousy of, i. 309 ; ivory
traders, i. 321
Beads as currency,"ii. 101, 102
Beamont, M. Bouthchier de, i. 35
Beans, ii. 243, 357
Bed of the Congo, survey of the, i. 402
■“ Beef and beer,” Burton’s advice, ii. 294,
296
Beer, ii. 242, 282, 294, 295 ; of Mantu, i.
512
Beeswax, ii. 354
Behaim, Martin de, the explorer, i. 1
Belgarde, the Abbé, i. 16
Belgian officers, i. 239; military officers,
ii. 259 ; colony, Congo-land not a, i. 54 ;
enterprise, ii. 388
Belgique, La, ss., i. 68, 83, 91, 103, 104,
107, 121, 144, 145, 149, 152, 196, 208,
469
Belgique Creek, i. 145
Belgium, i. 26, 28 ; the first to establish a
national committee, i. 33; formation of
its International Committee, i. 34, 35
Bemba, Lake, i. 8
Benevolence, a valuable virtue, ii. 166
Bengo Biver, i. 454
Benguella, i. 456
Benin, Bight of, ii. 231 ; river, ii. 234
Bentley, Mr., i. 250
Benzani Congo, a chief, i. 130, 161
Beré, another name for ’Welle Biver
Beri Mount, ii. 211
Berlin Congo Conference, ii. 391-403
Beverage wanted, a, ii. 323
Biangala, i. 518 ; ii. 57
Bin Kassim, Sultau, i. 43
Binnie, a Scotch engineer, ii. 165, 272, 427.
• 275, 276
Birds, i. 207, 417, 419, 436 ; ii. 6, 8 ; immense
flocks of, ii. 17 ; feathers, ii. 354
Bisa. plateau, ii. 361
Bismarck, Prince, ii. 384, 386, 387, 388,
389,390, 393, 396, 399, 402, 403, 407
Biyerré Biver, i. 70, 514; ii. 129, 130-132,
170, 349; identical with the Welle, ii
130
Black babies, our “ fondness ” for, i. 299
f‘ Blackman’s pot,” i. 101
Black’s, Mr. Wm., novels, i. 401
Black Point, ii. 229
rivers, ii. 77, 359
Blandy, Mr., of Madeira, i. 153, 154
Blankets, ii. 324
Block house at Leopoldville, i. 375, 376
Bloeme, Mr. de, i. 32, 73 ; ii. 395
Blood-brotherhood, i. 30, 306, 385 ; ii. 23,
38, 48, 68, 79, 86, 89, 90, 104, 132, 171,
177 !
Blood-money, i. 525, 527
Bloodshed, reasons against, i. 523, 524
Boleko of Bangala, ii. 80, 82, 83
Bolobo, i. 102, 507, 515-519, 521; ii 2, 4,
26, 50, 52, 288 ; serious disturbances at,
i. 521; assembly of chiefs, i. 528; centre
of ivory trade, ii. 2 ; frugal chiefs at, ii.
2 ; departure of a flotilla from, ii. 3 ;
burning of, ii. 56; in arms, ii. 57, 58;
second burning of, ii. 183
Bolombo, ii. 79
Boma, i, 30, 31, 74, 86-89, 91-93, 96, 102,
103,105,109,113.116,132,133,143-145, •
156, 168,171, 513; ii. 287, 298, 310, 319,
341; a zareeba, i. 46; its history, i. 96-
10 1 ; protectorate at, ii. 225; sanatorium
at, ii. 228; hospital at, ii. 271
Bombax, ii. 5, 30
Bondeh village, ii. 126
Bonny Biver, ii. 234
Borneo, ii. 379
Bossi missionary station, ii. 185
Boundaries of Congo Free State, ii. 401 ;
of territories, ii. 400, 401
Braconnier, Lieut., i. 243, 253, 258, 273,
276, 279, 286, 316
Brandy, ii. 252, 254
Brass collars, i. 297, 428
rods as currency, i. 294,374, 384,488,
524; ii. 22, 28, 44, 52, 62, 64, 84, 102,
243 ■
Brazils, shipment of slaves to the, i. 14
Brazza, Le Comte Savorgnan de, i. 292,
231-234; ii. 385
Bread, native, i. 431
Breadth of the Congo, i. 89
Bridge making, i. 226
Bridges,—across the Bundi, i. 186; Bula
Biver, t 187; Luendu, i. 187; Lulu, i.
187; across the Nkusu, i. 154, 186; destroyed,
i. 448; Loa, i. 2 0 1; Nkusu,
223; Lukuluzi Biver, i. 312; Inkissi.
i. 316; Ufuvu, i. 318
British Expedition of 1816: see Tuckey’s
■ Expedition.
cruisers and the slave-trade, i. 451 •
officers, ii. 273
Government, action of the, ii. 380
exploration, ii. 385
Bronchitis, ii. 327
Brotherhood-blood; see Blood-brotherhood
Broyon, Mons., i. 39, 40
Bruce, James, ii. 385; definitions of heat
ii. 313
Brush circles, i. 356
Brussels, i. 25; meeting at the palace, 26 ;
Conference, i. 33, 36
Buchner, ii. 387
Buffalo, i. 395; river, i. 212; Soudi killed
by a, i. 253; skins, ii. 354; and lion
fright, ii. 51
Buffaloes, i. 176, 177, 509; i t 8, 241
Buguku of TJbuma, i. 18; son of Gankabi
i. 422
Buka Island, i. 110
Bukala, i. 315
Bula Biver, i. 180, 223, 224, 229; bridge
across the, i. 187 ‘