tories, i. 63, 64; Father Merolla’s description
of the, i. 4 ; the highway of the,
i 24 ; historically without fame, i. 102 ;
Islands, i. 110, 249, 515, 516; ii. 14. 30,
38, 65, 97 ; jottings for pilots'on the, i.
403-405 ; large steamers on the, ii. 7-9 ;
length, ii. 339 ; length of its tributaries,
ii. 347; Lopez’s extraordinary description
of the Lower, i. 3 ; (Lower), description
of, i. 80 ; (Lower), extent of, ii.
340 ; merchants, oharacter of, i. 32 ; missionaries
on the, i. 496 ; the mouth of
the i. 61-63, 80, 81 : navigation, i. 85,
86, 113, 114, 116; ii. 339, 340, 346; no
distinctive native name for the, i. 202 ;
old names of the, i. 1, 2 ; Purchas s description
of the, i. 4, 5 ; rise and fall, i.
Crocodiles, i. 209, 398, 436; ii. 2, 6, 8,18 ;
chased by, i. 245 ; their numbers, i. 262 ;
Isle of, i. 110
Cross River (Calabar), ii. 232
Crudgiiigton, Mr.,_ i. 250
Cucumbers: see Vegetables.
Cultivable soil, ii. 213
Currency, articles of native, i. 193 ; brass
rods 'as, i. 294, 374, 384, 488, 524; ii.
22, 28, 44. 52, 62, 64,84,102, 243 ; beads
as, ii. 101, 102; change of, at Langa-
Langa, ii. 101; cowries as, ii. 102
Currents of the Congo, i. 114, 115, 117,
249
Customs difficulty at Sierra Leone, i. 57
Daily Telegraph and New York Herald
Expedition, i. 8, 58
Daly, Judge, New York, i. 36
Dance, a fierce, i. 265, 266; an eccentric,
i. 296
Danckelman, Dr., ii. 313; observations, n.
87 ; ships for the, ii. 367 ; soundings at
Vivi, i. 128,129 ; soundings on the river,
i. 402 ; steamers for the, ii. 367 ; tides on
the, i. 87 ; tributaries, ii. 344, 352 ; Tuc-
key’s description of the, i. 5, 6; valley I
of the Lower, i. 62 ; villages, ii. 45 ;
volume of the river, i. 86, 87, 402, 403 ;
ii. 132 ; work on the, ii. 252 ; (Upper)
first steamer on, i. 375 ; formation of the
expedition, i. 394 ; expedition (1883), i.
501; traders, ii. 21, 22, 23; extent of, ii.
340 ; basin, ii. 348 ; products of the region,
ii. 352-358
Congo life v. Barrack life, ii. 265
basin, table of our actual knowledge
of the, ii. 364 ; political divisions of the,
ii. 365 ; development of the, ii. 374
.----- scenery, i. 92-94, 111, 112, 124-
126, 171-173, 175, 176, 179-184, 243-
247, 250, 255, 256, 258, 262, 264, 324,
325, 389-391, 396, 397, 399-401, 504,
505, .511-513, 515, 516; ii. 8, 9,11, 17,
45, 67, 77, 79, 91-93,152
Congoese shrewdness in trade, i. 137
Conical huts, ii. 126, 127
Constantine, the Grand Duke, l. 35
Contracts, character of, i. 81, 32 . . .
«Conveniences of civilisation absent, ii.
239 . AA
Convention, delimitation, n. 400
Conveying stores, 155, 182, 210, 211, 214
Copper, ii. 356, 357,375
Coquilhat, Lieut., ii. 38, 71, 76, 90, 177,
178, 264. 267, 289
Cordier, Capitaine,i. 475
Cost of the flotilla of the Expedition, l. 68 ;
of negotiations at Ntamo, i. 310
Costume, natives in gorgeous, i. 364
Cotton, growth of, ii. 358
Cottonwood, i. 430 .
Countries represented at Brussels m lo7o,
i. 26, 28
Country, a rich, ii. 97 _
Cowries, as currency, ii. 102
Creek Town (Old Calabar), ii. 233
Crocodile Creek, i. 101
310, 311, 330-334
Danube, comparison to the, ii. 9
Dapper, the Dutch geographer, !. 12
“Dark Continent,” the, i. 20, 22, 189
Dar Salaam port, i. 44
Date palms, ii. 5
Daumas, Beraud, & Co., i. 76
Dead, saluting the, i. 75
Dealing, prospective results of fair, i. 53
Deanes, Mr., i. 152, 210
Death, from sickness, ii. 290; native views
of, i. 392 ; causes of, ii. 306-309; during
a year, i. 241; occurring in the cold
season, i. 283
Deauville, i. 23
De Barras, the explorer, i. 2
Decauville railway, laying a, ii. 223 ,
De Courcel, Baron, ii. 388, 389, 390, 407
De'-de-de, chief of Nsanda, i. 116, 118,
133, 138, 164, 166-168, 172,180
Defence of river banks, a curious, ii. 135
Defensive measures at a station, i. 376
DeXaunay, Count, ii. 394, 403
Delbriik, Herr, i. 34
Delimitation Convention, ii. 400
Delusions as to African life, 241, 242
Denham, ii. 385
Depopulation through slavery, i. 96, 97
Desolation, an effect of war, i. 173
De Soto, the navigator, ii. 374
Destrain, Lieut., ii. 225, 277
Dews to he guarded against, ii. 324
Diamond Bock, i. 112, 113
Diarv form of narrative, advantages of, i.
386
¡Diegos Bay, i. 63
Dieppe, i. 23
Dinner, a factory, i. 72, 73; a first, ii. 283
Disappearance of two men, mysterious, i.
I 370 ■
Disappointing assistants, ii. 244, 245
mouth, ii. 55
Discipline on Portuguese ships, laxitv of.
l. 458, 460
Discovery, a shocking, ii. 142
of Lake Leopold, i. 434, 435, 436; of
the mouth of the Congo, i. 1
Discussion at the Berlin Conference, ii. 394
Discussions among Europeans, danger of,
Dishonesty of the natives, i. 304
Distance accomplished in a year, i. 241
between Vivi and Isangila, i. 189 •
traversed to.the Biyerre, ii. 134
Districts and their native chiefs list of
ii. 198-204 ’
Disturbances with natives, cause of, i 156
Divers (bird), i. 397, 436; ii. 6
Division of Stanley Pool, ii. 263
Diya village, ii. 98
Doctors, insufficient knowledge of climate
u. 318; 319, 321 ’
Dogs, ii. 2
Dom Pedro, King of Congo, i. 17
Donkeys, Teneriffe, i. 225 ,
Dover Cliffs, i. 324, 325,396, 505
Down the stream, going, ii. 168
Dragon flies, i. 419
Draper Islands, i. 82, 84
Draughts, cold, ii. 305; dangers of, ii. 285
286, 296, 327 r
Drees, Frederic, ii. 276
Drill, a life’s, ii. 266
Drink, ii. 282, 283, 291, 295, 322; in the
tropics, i. 65—67; on the Lower Congo,
i. 193,194; temptations to, i. 84; effects
of, ii. 251, 252-254
Drowned; a native boy, i. 289-
Drowning eases, i. 486; ii. 55
Drugs for the tropics, ii. 325, 327
Drumbird, the, i. 207
Drum signals, curious, ii. 158
Dualla, i. 273, 274, 276, 306,307; ii. 39-42
55, 64
Ducks, i. 417
Dudoma, i. 46
Duke Town (Old Calabar); ii. 232
Dust film on Lake Leopold, i, 434
Dutalis, Lieut., i. 41, 43-45
Dutch conception of comfort, i. 76-; factories,
i. 64; hoes, i. 201
i Dutch House,” the, i. 72
houses, i. 75, 76; hospitality at, ii 84
merchants, bankruptcy of,.i. 50,
- — structures, superiority of, i. 83, 84
Dutrieux, M., i. 42, 43
Duty, Btrict performance of, i. 152- the
calls of, i. 22
Duveyrier; the explorer, ii. 385<
Dysentery, i. 207; ii. 307, 328
Early writers on Congo-land, their • ignorance,
i. 3
VOL. II.
Edwin Arnold Biver, i. 287, 403
Eela, wife of Kibibi, i. 370, 421, 422
Egrets, i. 417
Elais Ouineensis, i. 74; ii. 5, 342, 352
Elders of Congo, i. 17
Elephants, i. 176, 177,395, 509 ; ii. 8, 241
355, 356; swimming, i. 213
Elliott, Captain J. G., i. 470, 471 476 •
ii. 225
Elobey Island (Corisco Bay), ii. 231
Embo-Embo, i. 416.
Emigrant, questions bv an, ii. 312 313
En Avant, ss., i. 68-70; 88, 104, 133 134
144, 145, 154, 190; 196, 209, 2 11,’ 22o’
226, 227, 230, 469 ; ii1. 12, 19, 29, 33-35*
57, 58, 60, 87, 105, 116, 137, 142, 233 ’
in rust, i. 483; on Stanley Pool, i. 398’
sqg.; on the Kwai Biver, i. 410- under
repair, i; 261, 501
England, i. 26, 28; and Portugal, treaty
tor suppression of the slave-trade, i 15 •
cause of withdrawal from the Associa-
• tion, i 36.; difficulties which kept it aloof
°m the Association, i. 34; pedestrian
exercise in; i. 23
English factory at Boma, i. 92
Enje'li, son of Ngalyema, i. 306, 382, 383 •
. n. 191 ’
Equatorial Africa, past isolation of, ii 372 •
the heart of, i. 514
Equator, missionaries at the, i. 496; station
n. 38,39,76,177,180,182, 267, 289 320 ’
comfort at, ii. 70; 71-73
Equipment of a station, ii. 243; of the Expedition,
i, 29, 41, 42.
Errors in names of Congo-land, i. 2 3
Escapes from drowning, i. 487
Esperanee, ss., i. 68, 83, 104, 1.13, 114 H6
Eucalyptus, the, i. 103,151
Euphorbia, i. 158; ii. 353
Euphrates, comparison to the i 401
Europe, arrival in (1878), i. 20
European and African life, ii. 238 239
European assistants, i. 144
Europeans and coloured men, relative numbers
of, i. 285
Europeans, arrival of, at Leopoldville, i
445; arrival of young, 282; finding
delight m African life, i. 248; fri°id
towards natives, i. 248, 517; health °of,
loz; m Africa, ii. 238; inconvenience of
having too many, i. 225, 226; indolence
of, n. 219, 224; at the tropics, i. 85 •
lesson to, from nature, ii. 216 ; not to be
encouraged in discussion, i. 47; required
in CoDgo-land, class of, i. 25; to be
isolated, i. 47; why they succumb, i. 224
Exercise, best hours for, ii. 326
Exhibition at Leopoldville, i. 379 381
Expedition, African Association’s first i
39 ; French, i. 159; instructions for’an
Eastern, i. 39 et seg.; lost in the bush,
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