GLOSSAEY OF NATIVE WORDS AND PHRASES 

 IN THE TEXT 



Angata, pasture or meadow land ; a plain. 

 Angata Elgek, firewood plain. 

 Aschanga, or uschanga meupe, white 



beads. 

 Ashari, giiards. 

 Aterere, I tell you. 



Bal, friend. 



Ba-ngiscliu, Lord of the Oxen. 

 Baraja, a hut. 



Barglimn, a trumpet of kudu horn. 

 Baringo na nibele Jcidogo, To get to 



Baringo and a little farther. 

 Barnoti, a youth. 

 Basso, lake. 



Bendere assilia, cloth of a deep red 

 colour. 



Biasclieya Jiu. a good business. 

 Birobotos, soldiers of the Sultan. 

 Bisch ibit, bishop. 

 Boge ivale, There go buffaloes. 

 Boma, a fence. 



Bori, a large tusk of male elephant. 

 Biide, elephant without tusks. 

 Bugeden, mightj' master. 

 Bumba, kraal. 

 But u, steam. 

 Bwana, master. 



Bwana katikaM, middle master. 

 Bwcma mdogo, little master. 

 Bwana mhiibwa, great master. 

 Biva7>.atoatuv!aivili loamekufn, Master, 

 two men have died. 



Dana, medicine. 



Dasturi, old-established custom. 



Dasturi bwana, It is such a bad place, 



master. 

 Dazini, medicine. 



Dhurra, a native cereal. 

 Ditto, young unmarried girls. 

 Djore, a piece. 



Doenj/e, or Doenyo, a mountain. 

 Doje, a maiden. 

 Doti, a measure. 

 Dsclina, the sun. 



EauiJe, or Giirut, the Buk, nati\-e names 

 of. 



Ebaj, The same to yoii. 

 Ell, yes. 



Elkonono, a native smith. 



Elmolo, poor fellows without any cattle; 



poor devils. 

 El monoo torono, the wicked old man. 



Faru, rhinoceroses. 

 Faya, reply to a greeting. 



Galascha, tusk of female elephant. 

 Gainti, stuffs. 



Godde Daschumbe ? 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 gliani ? What is the news ? 



Habari 'ngema, good news. 



Haram, forbidden. 



Haya jniani. Off' to the beach. 



Haya sa fari, Forwards. 



Haya twende, Let us press on. 



Hongo, a present ; tribute. 



Indyiani, a camp by the path. 



