384 
THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA 
Shirmaki Adan and his fifty-two 
children, 20 
Shoa, 159, 274 
Shim, or petty officer, visits author, 
155 
Sisai, at the back of Wagar, 93 
Snakes, 827 
Sobat, twelve miles from Jalélo, 57 
Scemmerring’s gazelle, vast herds of, 97, 
117, 127, 135, 149, 155 ; shoot two 
right and left, 155; at Nano, 192; 
shot with Lee-Metford, 200 ; descrip- 
tion, 314 
So Madu, arrival of mail bag, 145 
So Midgan, 82 
Somali tribes, 1, 19, 21; the, his 
character, 7, 16, 285; salutation, 
“ Nabad,” 9; religion, costume, 
weapons, superstitions, and nomen- 
clature, 9, 10; women, wonderful 
powers of endurance, 12 ; language, 
16; origin, 18; nicknames, 19; 
seasons, 35; trade, 373 
Spears, 10 
Spear-throwing, 203 
Speedy, Captain, 272 
Spiders, 327 
Sporting battery, 339 
Squirrels, 243, 327 
Stace, Lieut.-Colonel, 374 
Storks, 327 
Strep siceros imberbis, 226, 303 
Subbul hills, 105, 154 
Sultan Deria, 20 
Swahili race, 22 
Swayne, Captain I, J. E., assists in 
survey, 86 
Swayne’s hartebeest first shot, 95 ; de- 
scription of, 305 
Sword hunters, 110 
Syk, in the high Ogo country, 85, 
223 
Taala Galla, or Galla cairns, 24, 88 
Taitu, Queen, 281, 
Tana river, 21 
Taurin Cahaigne, 
Harar, 22, 171 
Tawawur, 93 
Temperature, 36, 37, 363; at Sisai, 
94 
Temple, supposed work of Gallas, 91 
Monseigneur, of 
Tents, 837 ; Cabul, 175, 337 ; descrip- 
tion of Basha-Basha’s, 166 
Theodolite station, 87 
Thirst, effect on domestic animals, 118 
Ticks, 33 
Tobe, 9, 262 
Tomal, 4 
Toyo Plain, 40, 297 
Trade of Somali, 373 
Traders, 2 
Trading caravans, 2 
Tragelaphus decula, 308 
Treaty between British Government 
and Somalis, 74 
Trees, 278, 362 
Trophies, preparation of, 353 
Tug Dér, wells, 88 
Tuli, 126 ; march to, 189 
Tusbas, scented prayer-chaplets, 205 
Tusks of Somali elephant, 72 
Ugaz Nur, 108 
Ujawaji, 97, 98, 154 
Umr Ugaz, 193, 242 
Upper Sheikh, 87 
Vultures, 97, 201, 254, 827 
Vulturine guinea-fowls, 90 
Wa-berri (from berri, morning), 19 
Wedi thorn-trees, 155 
Wagar Mountain, 44, 93, 303 
Waller’s gazelle, 53, 127, 189, 192, 
220 ; seized by panther, 186; shot 
with Lee-Metford, 200 ; killed by 
leopard, 258 ; description of, 312 
Walsh, L. P., assistant Resident at 
Aden, 75, 142 
Wandi, chief of police at Harar, 174 
Wapokémo negroes of the Tana, 22 
Warda-Gumaréd, one of the great 
tradé arteries, 119 
Waredad Plain, 92, 295 
Waror, 126 ; description of wells, 129 
Warsama Dugal, a chief of the Ba- 
Gadabursi, 82 
Warsingali tribe, 19 
Wart-hog, 120, 226, 235, 256; kill 
near camp, 61, 256 ; description of, 
, 322 
Water, method of getting, 89, 129 ; 
supply statistics, 116 ; wells, 223 
