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INDEX 



Jombeni range, 213; their plantations 

 and cattle, 219; marriage customs, 

 221; men kept employed, 335; camp 

 in charge of George in good condition, 

 335; capture of robbers, 338; native 

 dance, 410; children dance, 414; full- 

 dress dance, 414; dancing a serious 

 business, 414; tribe and the locusts, 

 440; to Mombasa 450 miles, 470; the 

 zeriba at, 470; the country of, opened 

 to Europeans and missionaries, 471 ; 

 disastrous results of digging up car- 

 tridges left by Chanler, 480. 



Dance, native, by Daitcho tribe, 410. 



David, English-speaking negro, at Dick's 

 trading-post, 487. 



Denhardt, Gustave, first to ascend the 

 Tana River, 3, 16; at Lamoo, 15. 



Deserters, 46-48, 56, 65, 205; the most 

 serious difficulty, impossible to over- 

 come, 209; sent to Zanzibar by Sir 

 Lloyd Matthews, 500; their false state- 

 ments to Mr. Allen and Sir Lloyd 

 Matthews refuted, 502. 



Dick, trading-post owned by, 487. 



Dogs, fox-terrier and native, 206; Felix, 

 the fox-terrier, and the hippopotamuses, 

 211; Felix, the fox-terrier, and the 

 elephants, 363; and vi^ater-buck, 390; 

 Felix and two other fox-terriers attack 

 a rhinoceros, 382 ; afraid of a lion, 

 392; Felix, the fox-terrier, seizes the 

 ear of a rhinoceros, 391; only useful 

 in the early morning or late afternoon 

 on account of heat, 391 ; and the 

 baboons, 392; Felix, the fox-terrier, 

 killed by a crocodile, 410. 



Donkeys, die of fly-bites, 123; death of, 

 288.' 



Donyo Loldeikau, mountain range, 149. 

 Donytuli Mono Vomari, a mighty wizard, 

 248. 



"Dthombon" robbers, 289. 

 Dukuli, 49. 

 Dundas, 4. 



Elephant hunters in the camp atTuni, 53. 

 Elephants, herd of twenty-two, 131 ; traps 



used by the Wanderobbo to capture 

 them, 350; in search of, with the Wan- 

 derobbo, 360; hunting, 366, 367, 369; 

 heart of, a delicacy, 368. 



Embe tribe, near Mount Kenya, 105; 

 their knowledge of agriculture, 105; 

 country of, 179; assist the expedition 

 on the march, 182; anoint their skins 

 M'ith castor oil, 188; religious sanctity 

 for anything of extraordinary size, 188; 

 natives chew bark of "Miraa," 189; 

 their physique, 190; attack expedition, 

 200 ; visit of leaders to camp at 

 Daitcho, 228 ; native women traders, 

 239 ; their market-places, 239 ; brac- 

 ing air 5000 feet above the sea-level, 

 241; native story, 242; old men sub- 

 sist entirely on meat diet, 242 ; their 

 government, 242; questions of moment 

 discussed exclusively by old men, 245 ; 

 the population, 245; home and foreign 

 policy, 246; raids of the warriors, 246; 

 marriage customs, 247; superstition of, 

 247; advice of Donytuli Mono Vomari, 

 a wizard, 248; married men, 248; men 

 divided into two classes, warriors and 

 old men, 248 ; their religion, 249 ; 

 local deities wise men, 250; circumci- 

 sion, 251; courtship, 251 ; young girls 

 and boys naked, 252 ; articles manu- 

 factured, 253; manner of burying the 

 dead, 253; dancing their sole amuse- 

 ment, 253 ; dig pits as traps for elephants 

 and rhinoceros, 254; iron, tools, and 

 arms, 254; their bows and arrows, 254; 

 women weave bags, 254 ; natives en- 

 gaged in clearing forests, 255; proprie- 

 tors of land, 255 ; their language, 255 ; 

 as soon as a man becomes powerful 

 or rich he is poisoned, 257; poisons 

 used, 257 ; their equality, 257 ; the 

 poisoner, 257 ; how they measure time, 

 258; their manner of trading, 259. 



Emin Pasha, 209. 



Expedition, to explore region lying be- 

 tween Tana and Juba Rivers. 



Chapter L — Expedition of Count 

 Teleki and Lieutenant von Hohnel, 3; 



