INDEX 



455 



41 ; their treatment of pack-animals, 

 135 ; as interpreters, 272 ; their 

 purchases, 275 ; eftect on markets, 

 312 ; their methods, 342 

 Swahili porters, 6, 7 ; engagement of, 6, 

 134 ; author's number in caravan, 6, 

 29, 134, 135; loss of, 116, 130; 

 author's signal for, 160, 287 ; food on 

 march, 269 ; conduct, 326 ; their 

 point of honour, 365 ; Government 

 regulation of loads, 366 ; chief reward, 



366 ; treatment of, 367 ; punishment, 



367 ; redress of grievances, 368 ; 

 mode of carrying tusks, 370, 432 ; 

 payment, 433 



Swahilis, 26, 51, 75 ; food prejudice, 

 39, 105, 300 ; as servants, 89 ; their 

 tooth-brushes, 280 



Swaziland, wild pigs in, iiS 



Taita, 9 



Tana River, 131, 145 ; tributaries, 13, 

 81, 160 ; camp at, 146 ; ferrying with 

 canoe, 153 ; crossing pack-animals, 



157 

 Taro desert, 139 

 Teal, 266 

 " Telekeza '" (water-carrying in gourds), 



139 



Teleki, Count, 8, 269, 275, 280, 307, 

 339 ; his volcano, 259 



Terns, 266 



Tetse fly, 8, 28, 142, 145, 160, 161, 

 162, 163; female (?), 2S2 



Thaka district, 132 



Thana River [see Tana River) 



Thomas, Mr. Oldfield, 303, 412 ; note 

 on Gazella grantii, 238 



Thomson's gazelle, 9, 10, 1 1 ; northern 

 limit of range, 241 



Tick-birds, 19, 34, 292 



Tongas, 16 



Topi hartebeeste {Datitaliscus jiinela), 

 274, 280, 289, 304, 314, 318. 332, 

 418; resemljlance, 274, 290; varieties, 

 274 note; breeding-time, 334, 335; 

 f'ghting, 335 



" Tora " antelope, 303 



Tree-frogs, 236 



Tsavo River, 138, 141 



Turkana, 341 



Tusks, weights of bull, 56, 61, 98, no, 

 113, 132, 197, 209, 229, 299, 321, 

 356, 422 ; weights of cow, 47, 209, 

 224, 422 ; distinctive character, 198 ; 

 fmding in forests, 247 ; proportions. 



298, 362 ; porters' mode of carrying, 

 370 ; Sir Edmund Loder's specimen, 

 422 note ; Duke of York's specimen, 

 422 note 



Ukamkam, Northern, 8, 10, 132, 143; 

 description, 143 ; female customs in, 



145 

 Umbuluzi River, 49 



Vultures, 21, 72, 221, 241, 282, 346, 

 356, 364 ; author's mode of protecting 

 game from, 23, 211, 241, 379 



Vulturine guinea-fowl, 176, 184, 197, 

 290 ; chased by dog, 142 ; appear- 

 ance, 143 



Wakamba tribe, 25, 150, 160, 430; 

 ivory traders, 48, 143, 161 ; as hunters, 

 92, 253 ; mode of carrying burdens, 

 144; as bee-keepers, 144; their 

 festival, 144; female customs, 144; 

 predatory tendencies, 431 



Wakanda tribe, use for mineral, 83 



Wakwavi tribe, branch of the Masai, 

 128, 246; customs, 129; hostility 

 shown by, 130 ; present location, 246 ; 

 as interpreters, 291 



Waller's gazelle, 16, 26, 81, 141, 156, 

 186, 195, 280, 284; haunts, 20; 

 characteristic attitudes, 81 ; appear- 

 ance and disposition, 184 



Wa-ndorobo, Swahili plural, 13 note 



Warr River, northern affluent of Lake 

 Rudolph, 291 



Wart-hogs, 27, 146 



Wasanya tribe, 431 ; hunting weapons, 



431 

 Waterbuck, 12, 26, 81, 141, 14S, 151, 



156, 161 ; distinctive odour, 147 ; 



defassiis variety, 285 

 Water-hens, 64, 202 

 Weaver birds, 37 

 Wild-fowl, 64 

 Winton, Mr. W. E. de, 372 ; remarks 



on existing forms of girafil'e, 412 



Yams, 12, 126 



Zanziharis, 367 



Zebra [see Burchell's, Chapman's, (iranl's, 



and (jrevy's zebra) 

 Zoo, giraffes resting in, 117; elephant 



in, 424 

 Zululand, author's appointment in, 3 ; 



" roi rhebok " in, 124 



