5^4 



A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 



Ashado camp, 12 

 Asmara, 434, 438, 520 



expedition to, 180 

 Assenara villa<^e, 273 

 Attabar valley, 377, 382, 456 

 Attover, 380 



Aurer Masarrcs mountain, 326 

 Austin, Major, 291 

 Axum church, 405 



coinage, 416 



governor's story, 404 



monoliths, 401, 413 



Baboons, 360 

 Bad shooting, 29 



Baird, Mr., 5, 7, 75, 97, 142, 156, 516 

 Baker's antelope, 475 

 Balaguz valley, 352 

 Balambaras, rank of, 1 19 

 Balarse river and valley, 264, 268, 269 

 Baldini, Major, 432 

 Balesse bay, 282 

 Balji village, 67 



Bartering of goods for food, 4, 6 

 Basha Kassa (guide), 229, 234, 239, 241, 

 254, 270 



saved from punishment, 289 



story of, 263 

 Battle of Adua, 119, 395 

 Bear, 486 

 Beehives, 260 

 Beggars, 246 



Beira antelope, 17, 474, 475 

 Bent, Mr., 401, 414, 419 

 Berbera — 



harbour, 509 



population, 509 



trade, 510-512 

 Beru, Mr., 75, 437 

 Betket Nullah river, 205 

 Bibliography of Abyssinian travels, 487- 



490 

 Bilen, 43 

 Bilingual inscription of King Aeizanas, 



401, 417, 418 

 Biya Kaboba, 19, 466 

 Blue Nile [see Abbai) 

 Blyth, Mr., 477 



Boer war, news of, 76, 150, 178, 431 

 Bohor herds, 205 

 Brass band, 130 

 Bright, Major, 291 

 British Government concessions, 513 

 British manufactures, 113, 516 

 British residency, Adis Ababa, 75, 154 



British Somaliland — 



ports, 510 



taxation, 512 



trade, export and import, 5 1 0-5 1 3 

 British trade apathy, 512, 513 

 Bruce of Kinnaird, James — 



Axum monolith, 402 



description of Gondar [see Chap. 

 XXVII.) 

 Buffalo, 44, 225, 265, 337, 340, 345, 



486 

 Buiheat mountains, 361, 459, 479 

 Bulatovitch, Captain, 127, 178 

 Bulbar, 509 

 Burey, 223, 228 

 Burial of dead, 28, 166 

 Burning of camp, 237 

 Bushbuck, 159, 162, 476 

 Bush-pig, 481 

 Butter market, 1 14 



Camel-post, 15, 75 

 Camels — 



camel caravan, 492, 517 



dearth of, 12 



inspection of, 6 



loss of, 23, 25 



purchase of, 145 

 Camp furniture, kit, etc., 496 

 Candles given to high-priest, 218, 288 

 Caravans — 



cost of transit, 518 



fitting out of, 7, 151, 181, 491 



time in transit, 517 

 Cartridges, 494 



elephant-shooting, special cartridges, 



53 



Italian rule ?v empty cartridge cases, 

 450 

 Castles in Gondar, 302, 304, 311, 313 

 Cave-dwellings, 143 

 Chaffe Dunsa, 73, 143 

 Chelkar, 288 



interview with wounded Dedjatch, 289 

 Chilgar, 456 

 Chilli-beds, 275 

 Choba, description of, 65 

 Christianity, symbol of, 69 

 Christmas day, 56, 61 

 Chuowkar, 477 

 Church architecture, 297 

 Church-clock, repair of, 192 

 Church paintings and relics, 168, 170, 



304, 346, 393 

 Church ritual, 88, 123, 127, 407 



