GLOSSAEY OF JSTATIYE WOEDS AXD PHRASES 

 IX THE TEXT 



Angata, pasture or meadow land; a plain. 

 Angata Elgeh, firewood plain. 

 Aschanga, or usclianga meujje, white 



beads. 

 AsJcari, guards. 

 Aterere, I tell you. 



Bal, friend. 



Ba-ngiscliu, Lord of the Oxen. 



Baraja, a hut. 



Barglium, a trumpet of kudu horn. 



Baringo na mhele kldogo. To get to 



Baringo and a little farther. 

 Barnoti, a youth. 

 Basso, lake. 

 Bender e assilia, cloth of a deep red 



colour. 

 Biaschera Tm, a good business. 

 Birohotos, soldiers of the Sultan. 

 Bischibu, bishop. 

 Boge wale, There go buffaloes. 

 Boma, a fence. 



Bori, a large tusk of male elephant. 

 Bude, elephant without tusks. 

 Bugeden, mighty master. 

 Bumba, kraal. 

 BuTU, steam. 

 Bwana, master. 



Bwana 'katihati, middle master. 

 Bwana mdogo, little master. 

 Bwana mkubwa, great master. 

 Bivana watu waivili loamehufa, Master, 



two men have died. 



Dana, medicine. 



Dasturi, old-established custom. 



Dasturi bivana, It is such a bad place, 



master. 

 Dazim, medicine. 



Dhurra, a native cereal. 



Di^^o, young unmarried girls. 



Djore, a piece. 



Doenye, or Doenyo, a mountain. 



Doje, a maiden. 



Doti, a measure. 



Dscliua, the sun. 



Eaupe, or Gurut, the Suk, native names 



of. 

 Ebaj, The same to you. 

 Eh, yes. 



Elkonono, a native smith. 

 Elmolo, poor fellows without any cattle; 



poor devils. 

 El moruo torono, the wicked old man. 



Faru, rhinoceroses. 

 Faya, reply to a greeting. 



Galascha, tusk of female elephant. 

 Ganiti, stuffs. 



Godde Daschumhe ? Where is Jumbe 

 Gogo, an old married woman. 

 Gogo olaj, a very old woman. 

 Guaso, water, brook, or river. 

 Gurut, the Suk, a native name of. 



Habari ghani ? What is the news "? 



Habari 'ngema, good news. 



Haram, forbidden. 



Haya iniani, Off to the beach. 



Haya safari, Forwards. 



Haya tiuende, Let us press on. 



Hongo, a present ; tribute. 



Indyiani, a camp bj^ the path. 



