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INDEX 



Swimmers, the Wathaka tribe good swim- 

 mers, 445. 



Tana River, 3, 4; used as a means of 

 transportation of goods into the inte- 

 rior, 16; forests along the banks, 18; 

 reports of the natives starving, 30; 

 building camp, 52 ; tribes on its shores, 

 61 ; flows through narrow valleys and 

 rocky hills, 82; its source Mount 

 Kenya, 115; hunting hippopotamuses, 

 408; swollen by rain, 427, 436; not 

 fordable at any point, 443; a cataract, 

 475- 



Teide, German at Lamoo, 15, 

 Teita tribe, 496. 

 Teita superstitious, 497. 

 Teleki, Count, i, 3. 



Tobacco as used by the Wamsara, 161. 



Traders encamped at Daitcho complain 

 of natives, 457. 



Trading-post owned by a Scotchman 

 named Dick, 487. 



Trail, mountain, 112. 



Trees, palm, and acacias, 122; the bao- 

 bab, 100; group of poplars, 131 ; dhum 

 palms, 287; the Morio, etc., 378. 



Tulu Kuleso, 67. 



Tuni, 51; departure from, 57. 



Turcana, expedition starts for, 327. 



Uganda, 7. 

 Ukambani, 483. 

 Ura River, 212. 



Vanderdecken, Baron, 3. 

 Villiers, Captain, expedition, 203. 



Wadi Farhan, his death, 438. 



Wakamba tribe, 284; trading and hunt- 

 ing for ivory, 406; how they travel, 

 406; excellent shots with bow and 

 arrow, 408; good material in them for 

 soldiers, 408; acts as guide, 469; 

 strange story told by an old man, 485; 

 courtesies to women, 485. 



Wamsara tribe, 146; natives pasturing 

 cattle, 151; huts of, 151; armed war- 



riors, 152; efforts to trade with them, 

 154; cloaks of untanned goatskin, 

 157; manner of dressing the hair, 157; 

 their weapons, 157; blood-brother- 

 hood, 159; beautiful aspect of the 

 country, 160; manner of burying the 

 dead, 160; their manner of using to- 

 bacco, 161; war dance, 162; attack 

 the expedition, 168 ; again attack 

 the expedition, 174; their physique, 

 190. 



Wanderobbo tribe, 145; acts as guide to 

 the country of the Rendile, 264; old 

 man and seven old women brought to 

 camp, 276; and the honey bird, 277; 

 live in a state of chronic starvation, 

 278; their mode of life, 279; gives 

 information about the Rendile, 280; 

 fine appearance of the men, 281; 

 guides quarrel over hog meat, 287; 

 their method of trapping elephants, 

 350; saved from starvation, 350; beg 

 for medicine to kill game, 352; offer 

 to sell ivory for meat, 352; their man- 

 ner of trading, 353; honesty in trad- 

 ing* 353; beg Chanler to kill ele- 

 phants before leaving them, 354; 

 village at Bugoi, 355; breaking up 

 of dried bones for food, 356; offer to 

 guide expedition whence they would 

 find elephants, 357; headman of vil- 

 lage " Leguinan," 357; their joy at 

 the killing of an elephant, 365; eat 

 all parts of the elephant except the 

 skull, 368; again offer to guide Chanler 

 to find elephants, 369; live upon ele- 

 phant meat, 372; no fixed abode, 372; 

 a low type of natives, 373; prefer 

 starvation to cultivation of the soil, 

 373; three types, 373; their mode of 

 living, 374; their number about five 

 hundred, 376; hunters and their don- 

 keys, 393- 



Wanyanwezi tribe as porters, 56. 



Wasania tribe on the Tana, 61. 



Water, carrying water in the desert, 

 108. 



Waterless march, 340. 



