Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls

About this eBook

Author

Oates, Frank, 1840-1875

Title

Matabele land and the Victoria Falls

Original Publication

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

Credits

Peter Becker, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

Natural history -- Africa, Southern

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77803

Release Date

January 28, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.MATABELE LAND AND THE VICTORIA FALLS
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.MEMOIR.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
8. 8.CHAPTER I.
9. 9.CHAPTER II.
10. 10.CHAPTER III.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV.
12. 12.CHAPTER V.
13. 13.CHAPTER VI.
14. 14.CHAPTER VII.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX.
17. 17.CHAPTER X.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII.
20. 20.I. ETHNOLOGY. By George Rolleston , M.D., F.R.S. Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Oxford.
21. 21.II. ORNITHOLOGY. By R. Bowdler Sharpe , F.L.S., F.Z.S., Etc. Senior Assistant, Zoological Department, British Museum. ( Plates A, B.) — Order ACCIPITRES. — Order PICARIÆ. — Order PASSERIFORMES. — Order GALLINÆ. — Order NATATORES.
22. 22.III. HERPETOLOGY. By Albert Günther , M.A., Ph.D., M.D., F.R.S. ( PLATES C, D. ) DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF SNAKES FROM SOUTH-EASTERN AFRICA.
23. 23.IV. ENTOMOLOGY. By J. O. Westwood , M.A., F.L.S., Etc. Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford. ( Plates E-H.) — LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA. — LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. — Order COLEOPTERA. — Order ORTHOPTERA. — Order NEUROPTERA. — Order HYMENOPTERA. — Order HEMIPTERA. — Order DIPTERA.
24. 24.Descriptions of the Plates.
25. 25.V. BOTANY. [78] By D. Oliver , F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany in University College, London. ( Plates J, K.) — VI. LIST OF MAKALAKA WORDS AND PHRASES, From one of Mr. F. Oates’s Note-Books, 1874–5.
26. 26.INDEX.
27. 27.FOOTNOTES:

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