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INDEX 



Second - sight, Charm giving, Fikan 



story of, 275-6 

 Senegal Hartebeeste, 27, 202, 241, 

 256 

 Horn of, found, 234 

 Sdnegalais soldiers, characteristics of, 



136 

 Shari river, affluent of, see Bahr el 

 Erguig 

 Confluent of the Logone, 131 

 Crocodiles of, 199, 214 

 Flowing into Lake Chad, 219 

 French and German influences on 

 its opposite shores, 193, 

 195, 200 

 Slave-ti-ade along, 227 

 Swamps along, 192 

 Vegetation along, near Lake Chad, 

 214-5 

 Shari-Chad expedition of Gentil and 

 its consequences, 132, 145 

 et seq. 

 Shehu, the, of Bornu, 245, 246-7 

 Sherif, the, of Fort Lamy, 136-7 

 Shield, nearly 6 feet high (Kotoko) 

 (ill.), 196 

 Reed, Banana tribe (ill.), 115 

 Singing, see Music and Singing 

 Slavery, Slave-raids, and Slave-trade, 

 Central Africa, 115, 130, 

 145, 147-8, 227-8 

 Snake-bite, cures for, 271 

 Snakes, see Cobra, and Mambas 

 Dust-coloured, met with in tent, 27 

 at Mao Kabi Falls, 71 

 Mrs Talbot bitten by, 271 

 Mud-coloured, 57 

 Poisonous, Talbot bitten by, 92-3 

 Songs of Boatman's wife, 119 ; music 



and words, ib. 

 Sos, the, ancestors of the Kanembu, 



235 

 Spears, Arab, Bagirimi district, 157-8 



at Gabai, 254 

 Speeding, Captain, 59 

 Spermwhale and "kraken," a sight 



of, 3 

 Spur {ill.), 245 

 Staves of the Wadama, 87 

 Stereospermum Kunthianum near 



Gabai, 255 <£■ n. 1 

 Stone, Mr, 8, 10 

 Stone, Mrs, 10 

 Stone circles, near Garua, 19 

 Stones of witness, 210 dc n. 1 

 Street corner at Fika {ill.), 262 

 Sudanese desert, lower, journey 

 through, 187 et seq. 



Sulkando, jovirney to and stay at, 72 

 et seq.; courtesy of chief 

 at, 76 

 Sultan, the, of Bii'ni Logone, recep- 

 tion by, 122-4 ; visit in 

 return, 124-6 ; fantasia 

 given by, 127 

 Sultan, Niger steamer, journeys by, 3 



et seq., 11-12 

 Survey work of Talbot, 3, 284-5, 291 

 Swimming a river with Oxen, 152 

 Swine, taboo as food to Fikans, 

 282 



TABLES, Wadama tribe, 88 

 Talbot, Mrs P. A., 2, 3 ; and author, 

 solecisms committed by, 

 159, 163, 196; botanical 

 work of, 5 ; serious illness 

 of, at Ngama, 185-7, 189; 

 sketching by, alai'm roused 

 by, 269 ; snake - bite of, 

 271 ; stories of the Fika 

 people gleaned by, 271 et 

 seq. ; stung by scorpion, 

 199 ; welcome to, from 

 Gauaronga, 156-7 

 Talbot, ]\Ir and Mrs, help of, in author's 



book, 300 

 Talbot, P. A., accidents to and ill- 

 nesses of, 33-5, 99-100, 

 185, 188-9, 261 et seq.; 

 bitten by snake, 92-3 



African experience of, 2 



Collections of, 5, 276 



aid from the Fikans, 276 



Ethnological work of, 186 



Eyes injm'ed by spitting of Cobra 

 venom, 181-2 



Farewell to, 297 



Hunter hunted ? 202-3 



Judge and jury, 57, 58 



Nigerian survey by, 3, 284-5, 291 



Rat named by, after author, 276 

 Tattoo patterns, Benue tribes, 12 

 Taxation at Fika, 282-3 



at Gulfei, 195 

 Tchekna, ]3agirimi capital, and its 

 Sultan, 143 et seq. 



Arrival and stay at, events during, 

 158-9 



Extent of, 176 



Feast of Dee at, 150 



First French resident at, 148 



Gauaronga's palace at, 177 



Journey from, to Fort Lamy, 

 anxieties and illnesses of, 

 184 et seq. 



