INDEX 



Abdee Achmet, his account of the run- 

 aways, 482. 



Abdullah Ben Hamed, governor of La- 

 moo, 15 ; governor, visits camp at 

 Mkonumbi, 33. 



Abdurachman and Gwaharam, two Be- 

 loochi, 438. 



Achmet Dualla, 26, 290, 331 ; deserted 

 by Mohamadi and six men, 332. 



Aden, SomaH engaged at, 7. 



Aden, 511. 



African, characteristics of sick African, 

 152. 



African traveller, impossible to be an 

 expert in all branches of science, 

 272. 



African tribes prefer war to trade, 325. 

 Allen, Mr., 508, 509. 

 Antelope and zebra, herds of, 113. 

 Antelope, new species, " Cervicapra 



Chanleri," 431 ; small herds, 124. 

 Ants, red, called by natives " boiling 



water," 63. 

 Apes, attracted by camp-fire, 128. 



Baboons and the dogs, 392. 



Balook Bashi (Mahomet el Hussein), 



46; shoots a deserter, 58; reduced to 



the ranks, 61. 

 Balooki Bashi, chief of Soudanese, 21. 

 Baobab tree, girth forty-eight feet, 109. 

 Baraka, tent-boy, 9 ; his experience in 



caravan work, 10 ; marches with Chan- 



ler, 164; tent-boy, drowned in the 



Tana, 434. 

 Barfalatta, 12. 



Beasts of burden, difficulty of procuring, 

 230. 



Beasts of burden in East Africa, 147. 



Benayo village, 67. 



Berkenedji or Samburu tribe, 281, 



Bird, honey bird, 277. 



Birds, singing birds on the Guaso Nyiro 

 River, 124. 



Blood brothers with the white man, 159. 



Blood-brotherhood, 185, 186; manner of 

 performing the ceremony, 187; cere- 

 mony performed with the Rendile, 305. 



Blood-brotherhood with the Daitcho, 

 219. 



Boat, a canvas Berthon, 63. 



" Boma," a zeriba, held by warriors as an 



outpost, 198. 

 Borana tribe, enemies of the Rendile, 318. 

 Borana, distance from Kome, 319. 

 Bridge over the Guaso Nyiro, 117. 

 Bridges, constructing, across the Tana, 



474- 



British East African Company, 7, 12, 15, 

 69. 



Buffalo, 141. 



Bugoi, village of the Wanderobbo, 355. 



Bykender, married to a Rendile woman, 

 223 ; tells the story of his Rendile 

 wife, 223 ; a rich native of Daitcho 

 tribe, 223; visits camp, 405. 



Bykender, 225, 457, 467. 



Camels, death of, 65 ; the Rendile tribe 



supposed to possess 80,000, 313. 

 Camp at Hameye, a paradise, 70. 

 Camp, building at Daitcho, 234. 



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