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INDEX 



Aridity of Rudolf Province and Somaliland. 

 311,313 



Aristocracy: Hamitic, 210 et seq.; Hima, 210, 

 592, 610 ; Uganda, 683, 684 



Armed forces of Uganda Protectorate, 2.52, 251, 

 255 



Arrow poison, 873 



Aruwimi River, 202 



Ashe, Rev. W. P.. 279 



Ass. wild, 353,817, 818 



Asua River, 143 



Atonga of Nyasaland, 193 



Atrocities by Manyema in Congo Free State. 197, 

 198 ; of the whites in Africa, 277 et seq. : 

 of the Negroes, 278 et seq., 716 



Austen, Mr. Ernest E., 465 



Austria's interest in the Nile regions, 220, 272 



Author, the, 152 ; ascent of Ruwenzori, 181 ; 

 greatest altitude attained on Ruwenzori, 

 182 ; sent on Kilimanjaro expedition, 229 ; 

 despatched to Uganda as Special Com- 

 mission*, 248 ; apologia for creation of 

 African protectorates, 277 et seq. 



Avukaya language, 902 



Baamba, see Araba 



Babira, see Bira, Ba- 



Baboon, 11 et seq., 19, 353, 359 



Bachwezi (ancestral spirits), 5*7. 589, 596, 014 



Baganda, see Ganda, Ba- 



Bagge, Mr. S. S., 159, 160, 162 



Bagurjgu (Unyoro), 567, 568 



Bahima, -huma, see Hima 



Bahr-al-Ghazal River, 144, 209, 210. 213, 214. 

 4sl, 486, 510, 894 



Bairo, see Iro, Ba- 



Baker, Lady, 219, 221 



Baker Pasha (Sir Samuel), 149, 152, 219, 220 et 

 seq., 5!Mi 



Bakonjo, sec Konjo 



Bala-niceps rex, 82, 144, 220, 403, 404, 444 



Balsam, 47, 51, 52 



Baluchis, 41, 216, 697 



Bamboos, 27, 166 



Bambutc Dwarfs, see Mbute 



Banana, the, 75, 97 et seq., 671, 672, 673, 693; 

 wild, 33, 85, 98 ; groves : in Buvuma, 75 ; 

 in Uganda, 96, 97 



Bangweolo, Lake, 219, 222 



Bantu languages, 210, 546, 724, 763, 886; 

 frontiers of, 889 ; number of people speak- 

 ing, 890; grammatical features of. 891 

 et seq. ; prefixes, 892 et seq. : relation- 



ships, 894, 899 ; original home of this 



group. 899 

 Bantu negroes : physical type, 480 et seq., 561) ; 



origin of, 763, 899. 

 Baobabs, 314. 



Barbet, crimson-breasted, 187, 399. 

 BARI : people, 144, 220, 222, 488 et seq., 760, 761 ; 



district, 309 ; houses, 774, 775 ; language, 



886 

 Baringo : District, 1, 40, 304 ; Lake, 5, 16 et seq., 



Ill, 313, 798, 800 

 Bark-cloth, 104, 581, 607 

 Basalt, 58, 305, 310 



Basita (autochthones of Unyoro), 594, 607 

 Basketwork, 551, 629, 662, 745 

 Bateleur eagle, 140 



Batrachians of the Uganda Protectorate, 417 

 Bats, 176, 364 

 Beads, 783, 80S ; remarkable Kavirondo, 36, 309, 



783 

 Beatrice Gulf, 132 



Beer, made from grain or bananas, 0s7, *72 

 Bees. 289, 412. 742 

 Beetles. 410 ; Colcoptera, 459-64 

 Belgians, 193, 198, 202, 206, 221, 222, 379. 



"579 

 Bell, Professor J. Jeffrey, 453 

 Bellefonds, Linant de, 222, 223 

 Benin, 278 



Benue River, 1, 212, 375, 478, 894 

 Berbers, the, 57, 886 

 Berkeley, Fort, 143, 244 

 Berkeley, Mr. E. .1. L., 236 

 Betton, C. S., 421 

 Bihunga, 163. 181 

 BlRA : Ba-, 193, 532, 546, 556 ; Ki- (language), 



546. 896 

 Birds : of Elgjn, 58; Victoria Nyanza, 78, 82; 



Uganda, 94 ; Lake Albert Edward, 128, 



129 ; of the Protectorate, 396 et seq. ; list of, 



42.5 et seq. 

 Birth, parturition customs : Pygmy, 539 ; Lendn, 



553: Banyoro, 586; Baganda, 689, 690; 



Kavirondo, 748 ; Ja-luo, 792 

 Bishops of or in Uganda, 228. 233 

 Bltis gabonica (Gaboon puff-adder), 94, 409 

 Blacksmiths and forge, 745, 790, 834 

 Blackwater fever, 152, 228, 642, 828 

 Bleek, late Dr., 891, 893, S94. 

 Blood drinking (Masai, etc.), 818, 871, 883 

 Bodeker. Dr. H., 828 

 Bomangi language, 902 

 Bongo language, 886 

 Borassus (fan) palms. 138, 192, 314 



