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INDEX 



Portuguese East Africa, arrival 

 at frontier of, 51 ; general char- 

 acteristics of, 52 ; roads in, 64 ; 

 hospitable country, 65 



Postma, hire of wagon from, 209 



" Prazo '-' system, 68, 150 



Prospector, life of, 32 



Q 



Quilimane, possibilities of, 135, 

 143 



R 



Railways: Cape to Cairo, 17; 



Shire Highlands, 133, 136; 



cost of, in Africa, 135; in 



German East Africa, 164, 166; 



terminus of Uganda Railway, 



168; cost of, and reasons for 



building Uganda Railway, 174; 



scenery of, 175, 207 ; in Egypt, 



244, 250 

 Rainey, P. J., and lions, 208, 226 

 Rameses, 252, 253 

 Reed-buck (Chandler's), 227 

 Rendile, land of the, 199 

 Rhinoceros, in N.-E. Rhodesia, 



109 ; so-called varieties of, 111 ; 



and Uganda Railway, 175; 



photographing, 187 ; adven- 

 tures with, 189, 196 

 Rhodes, reflections on, 17, 22 

 Rhodesia, Native Labour Bureau, 



boys met on road, 42; and 



Nyasaland, 131 

 Rift (Great) Valley, 207, 216 

 Ripon Falls, Uganda, 240 

 Rivi Rivi, Nyasaland, 132 

 Rongui River, East Africa, 204 

 Ruenya (or Luenya) River, 



reached, 54; bathed in, 55; 



gold in, 55; famous tree by 



side of, 59; confluence with 



Mazoe, 59 

 Rumuruti, Government Post, 



East Africa, 179 

 Ruo River, Nyasaland, 134 



S 



Sable antelope, in Nyasaland, 128 

 Sagana River, near Fort Hall, 178 



Sakkara, Pyramids of, 250 



Salisb\iry, arrival and departure, 

 37 



Sam (native servant), 37; runs 

 away, 48 



San Sebastian, fortress of, 147 

 et seq. 



Scott, Dr. Ruffel, 133 



Selous and Mushukulumbwe, 94 



Semiramis Hotel, 246 



Serval cat, 200 



Sese Islands, 242 



Seyyid Bargash, Sultan of Zanzi- 

 bar, 158 



Shangara (old Portuguese fort), 

 54 



Shepheard's Hotel, 246 



Shire River, 132, 133, 138 



Shupanga, Jesuit Mission, 139 



Sibi River, 229 



Sikhs, in Africa, 131 



Situtimga antelope in Bangweolo 

 swamps, 119 



Sleeping sickness, " Z." and, 82; 

 in Bangweolo swamps, 118, 

 119; in Uganda, 242 



Somalis, as gun-bearers, 194, 217 



Sotik, journey to, 208 



Sphinx, mystery of, 248; tradi- 

 tion concerning, 248 



Stairs, Lieutenant, buried at 

 Chinde, 142 



Suez, arrival at, 243 ; canal, 266 



Sugar industry (on the Zambesi), 

 139 



Suka Kikuyu tribe, 179; treach- 

 ery of, 180 



Sultan of Zanzibar, 158 



Sumatwa, N^Derobo native, 237 



Suswa Mountain, 207, 212, 216 



Swahili, natives of Mombasa, 171 



Swamps, around Lakes Bangweolo 

 and Mweru, 116; curious 

 fascination of, 118 



Table Mountain, 13 

 Tana River, East Africa, 179 

 Tanga, German East Africa, ap- 

 pearance of, 166 

 Tel-el-Kebir, battlefield of, 245 



