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INDEX 



Talbot, P. A., qualifications of {contd.) 



oitement over gun and telescope, 

 i. 126 ; a river crossing, i. 128-9 ; 

 up the hill aimed at, i. 128; the 

 accident to the theodolite, i. 130 ; 

 meeting with C.A., i. 131, his 

 health, 132 ; difficulties as to 

 food, i. 131-2 ; through the Marragi 

 country, i. 132 ; a visit from the 

 Kachella at Abila, i. 134 ; the 

 re-induction of the King of 

 Ndivva, i. 136; survey of flags 

 removed and sheep stolen at 

 Ndivva, i. 134, the fight, 136-9; 

 he sucks a poisoned-arrow wound 

 and saves his i^arrier, i. 139 note; 

 in Bornu territory, i. 140, 142; 

 the meeting with C.A., provisions 

 and letters, i. 142; methods of 

 work after meeting, i. 143 ; arrival 

 of and departure from Ashaka, 

 i. 162; survey hindered by C.A.'s 

 illness, i. 180; on C.A.'s illness, 

 and the progress of his part of the 

 survey, i. 245-8; C.A.'s tribute 

 to his powers as a nurse, i. 250 ; 

 and as a surveyor, i. 251 ; he goes 

 on with B.A. to finish the survey, 

 i. 264, and puts the final touches 

 at Kukawa, 280 ; on to Kowa 

 i. 310, 311 ; he kills a hartebeest 

 near Lake Chad, i. 313 ; with 

 B.A. on the first Lake voyage, 

 i. 318, 321 et seq.; departure of, 

 for England, i. 347, 348 ; his value 

 to the Expedition, i. 350 



Tapkin Dorina, lake, crocodiles in, i. 52 ; 

 lion hunt near, i. 49-61 ; tsetse- 

 fly near, i. 53 



Taunza Mount, i. 132, 134 



Taxes, farming out of, by Sultan of Bornu, 

 i. 134 



Taylor, Alexander, cited on the Hausa and 

 the Munchi, i. 32-5 



Teeth, filed to points, various tribes 

 Banda, ii. 213 

 Blakka, ii. 232 

 Bou-bou, ii. 237 

 Mombuttu, ii. 323 

 Munjia, ii. 213 



Telescope, native, i. 126 



Tents and tent-pegs used, i. 13 



Tera pagan tribes, civilised, thriving region 

 of, i. 159 ; women of, their great 

 size, and way of covering babies' 

 heads, i. 160 ; their ornaments, ib. 



Teri, discharged carriers looting at, i. 161 



Tern, scissor-bill, on the Benue, ii. 24, 25-6 



Thrush, the red, rarity of and beauty of 

 its song, i. 201-2, ii. 30, 196 



Tiki-Tiki, dwarf tribe. Upper Ituri river, 

 stone knives used hj, ii. 327 



Tildi, near Bidiko, English tin-miners at, 

 i, 211 



Timbuotoo, Mecca caravan from, adventures 

 of, ii. 4 et seq. 

 Tin, near Badiko, English miners seeking 



i. 2U 

 Tingali, hill tribe, near Mamaidi, i. 220 

 Tins and Bottles, old, trade value of, i. 10 

 Togbau hill(s), elevation of, ii. 167 ; new 

 beast and bird found on,ii. 168-9; 

 other natural history finds on, ii. 

 169, view from, ib. ; Eabeh's 

 fights with Erench at, i. 230, ii. 169, 

 172-4 

 Tomi river, trend of, ii. 218, boat journey 



down, 219 

 Tom-tom, Mobatti, ii. 262 

 Tori river, affluent of the Yei, ii. 356-7 

 Tounia, see Eort Archambault 

 Trade goods, choice of, i. 8, native pre- 

 ferences, 9, 10 

 Transport (see also boats), organisation 



of, i. 11 

 " Travellers' Tales " of B.A.'s Hausa 



" boys," ii. Ill 

 Trial by ordeal, at Maifoni, i. 357-8 

 Triangles, (musical), Bungba tribe, ii. 



248 

 Tribal marks of the 

 Banziri, ii. 227, 244 

 Bashima, i. 149 

 Blakka, ii. 232 

 Kanebu, i. 306 

 Kanuri, i. 110 

 Kotoko, ii. 119 

 Leti, ii. 239 

 Misa, ii. 360 

 Yakoma, ii. 244 

 Tribes, see Names of, and of Rivers and 



Regions inhabited by 

 Tropical medicine, the value in, of the 



microscope, i. 183 

 Trumpets, Brass, at Nassarawa, i. 199 

 Tsetse-fiy (two species), horse disease 

 caused by, ii. 122, sleeping sickness 

 due to, ii. 159 

 season for, ii. 134 

 where met with by B. A., 



en route for Bahr-el-Ghazel province, 



ii. 374 

 near Eort Orampel, ii. 215 

 at Fort Lamy, ii. 134 

 near Langtam, i. 92 

 near Sarua, i.l45 

 near Tapkin Dorina, i. 53 

 at Wandi, Yei river, ii. 357, B.A.'s ex- 

 perience of a bite, ii. 359 

 near Wukari, i. 45 

 Tuareg nomads. Cotton on, ii. 125-6 

 Tuba raiders location and occupations, &c 

 of, i. 168-73, 307, 335, 346, ii. 1, 

 2 ; their Mobbur allies, ih. ; 

 alarms from on B.A.'s jom-ney to Yo, 

 i. 232, a peaceful Tubu family 

 met, their amazing camel load, 

 233 ; a brush with, i. 355 ; attack 



