INDEX 



315 



Hippopotami (continued) : — 



Lake Lere, 52 



Logone river, risks from, 108-10 



Mao Kabi river, 63, 65, 70 



Tuburi lakes region, 92 ; alarms 

 from, 74, 75 

 Hoe, Nupe (ill.), 15 

 Hoist, Mr, 13 

 Horns, musical : — 



Calabash (ill.), 283 



Fikan (ill.), 278 Jc n. 1 



Mundonng (ill.), 54 



Tuburi, 81-2 

 Horse, clay, and rider (toys) (ill.), 270 



and Eurojjean prestige, 159 

 Horsemen, Birni Logone, equipment 



of, 127 

 Horses, clothed, at Birni Logone, 127 

 House-rent at Maiduguri, 245 

 Howell, Captain, photographs given 



by, 246 

 Humming (vocal), Buduma form of 



music, 230-1 

 Hydrophobia precautions, Maifoni, 248 

 Hyenas, 7, 27, 241 



Forbidden food for Fikans, 282 



IBI, Mimchi pagans at, 11 

 Ibis, 154 



Sacred, at IVIaiashe, 187 

 Iguanas of Lake Lere, 58 

 Illegitimacy, Buduma laws on, 229 

 Illness of author and the Talbots on 



leaving Tchekna, 185 et 



seq. 

 Inheritance, laws of : — 

 Buduma race, 229 

 Fika race, 275 

 Inness, Dr, and his garden at 



Maifoni, 248 

 Insects, see Bees, Centipedes, Locusts, 



Millepedes, Mosquitos, 



Sand - flies, Scorpions, 



Tsetse-fly 

 Iron Cuirass, Native-made (ill.), 269 

 Islands in Lake Chad, features of, 



223 

 Ivory, British and German modes of 



dealing with, 24 



JABIRUS birds, Logone river, 107 



Jackal, 193 



Jays, 153 



Jebba, 296 



Jeggara, the, of Gulfei, 193, 194 



Height of, 196 



Queen of, 197; and other wives, 198 



Treasures of, 197-8 



Visit from, a solecism of his hosts, 

 196 ; reception by him, at 

 his palace, 197-8 

 Wiles of, 194 

 Jester, royal, at Birni Logone, 123 ; 



his song, 124 

 Jimba Giri, horse-boy, 31-2 

 Jimtilo, country near, chief of, and 



vast bed at, 212-3 

 " Josephine," author's pet giraffe. Fort 

 Lamy, 133-4, 182 ; native 

 statue of her (ill.), 134 

 Ju-ju Houses, Niger Banks, 4 

 Rivers, 187, 190 



KAA CHIU hills, 34, 52 



Kadi, the, of Gauaronga, 172-3 



Kamerun, journey to the, 192-3 



Kanem, cattle of, 238 



Kanembu race, near Lake Chad, 215 



Marriage customs as to widows, 235 

 Kano province. Emir's emissary in, 

 293-4 

 Scenery, &c., in, 294 

 Kano town, journey to, 259 et seq. 



Market at, 295 

 Kanuri race, characteristics of, 241 

 Enslavement of, by Buduma, 228 

 Karraka, scrub, worshipped by the 



Buduma, 223-4 

 Kata, the, 171 

 Kaua Baga, 219 



Market-day at, 237 et seq. 

 Neutral ground, 228, 238 

 Purchases at, 240 

 Women at, coiff'ures of, 240 

 Kaua, town, environs of, 241 

 Kebbia river, journey on, 93-6 

 Kerra, Wadama village, 87 ; hippo 



herds near, 92 

 Kerri-Kerri fortress hills, 255, 265, 

 287 

 Water-supplies in, 290-1 

 Kiari, heir of Shehu of Bornu, 247 

 Kika Island, Lake Chad, stay at, 233 ; 



animal life on, 233-4 

 Kob, 188, 218, 266, 293 

 as Pet, 140-1 

 Tame, at Lere, 45 

 Kola nuts as hospitable fare, 167 

 Kotoko district (see Logone), 101, 120 



et seq. 

 Kotoko race, canoes of, 193-4 

 Dress of, 120 

 Dwellings of tribe, 194 

 Dyeing and dyes of, 121 

 Fishing and tish-curing of, 122 

 Handicrafts of, 120-1 



