INDEX 



529 



Mannlicher, 78; in charge of camp at 

 Hameye, 202, 203; reports runaways, 

 208; working at the loads, 208; skill 

 in arranging loads, 210; goes to the 

 Embe country, 228; purchasing don- 

 keys of the Embe, 229; builds zeriba 

 in Embe country, 240; keeps his 

 camp well supplied with meat, 335 ; 

 sleeps outside the palisade, 337; 

 hyena captures his dog, 337 ; his 

 shooting expeditions, 396; his comical 

 adventure with a baby rhinoceros, 397; 

 shoots a male lion, 398; starts for 

 Kibwezi with Lieutenant von Hohnel, 

 400; letter from, telling of purchase 

 of donkeys, 424; on an island in mid- 

 stream, 436; unable to cross the Tana, 

 436; starts to join Chanler via Ham- 

 eye, 443; arrives at Daitcho, 444; the 

 story of his sufferings, and attempts to 

 cross the Tana, 444; arrives at Zanzi- 

 bar, 506; attacked by porters in Zan- 

 zibar, 506. 



Gerguess, Mount, 280. 



Germans at Witu, 11. 



Gilo, the Galla interpreter, asks forgive- 

 ness, 463. 



Giraffes, 129. 



Grantii, 129. 



Guaso Nyiro River, its source on the 

 western slopes of Mount Kenya, 107, 

 115; not emptied into the Tana, 115; 

 bridge over, nS; fall of sixty feet 

 named Chanler Falls, n8; its swift 

 current, 118; lava dust on one side, 

 mica on the other, 118; course ever 

 changing, 122; fish unfit for food, 

 123; mosquitoes troublesome, 123; 

 and Lorian Swamp, 140. 



Guides, desertion of, 50. 



Gwaharam and Abdurachman, Beloochi 

 in charge of caravan, 237, 452. 



Hameye Station, description of, 69. 



Hameye, limit of navigation of the Tana, 

 69; shortest route from the Wamsara 

 to, 162; improvement of zeriba, 203. 



Hamidi, headman of porters, 9; head- 



man of porters, addresses the men 

 about desertion, 208; after deserters, 

 209; many weeks overdue from the 

 coast, 399; returns from the coast 

 with porters unfit for work, 41 8; com- 

 municates with George across the 

 Tana, 438; builds a canoe, 443; prob- 

 able leader of deserters, 451; denies 

 all knowledge about desertions, 455, 

 returns to the camp at Daitcho, 455; 

 at one time employed in the construc- 

 tion of Kibwezi mission, 495. 



Hammock made with the midribs of a 

 palm, 401. 



Hassan Burgan, 55. 



Hassan Masai, interpreter, 297; sent to 

 Sayer, 463; the interpreter, his ad- 

 venture with an elephant, 365 ; and 

 men return from Sayer, 479. 



Head covering for the tropics, 155. 



Headman of porters, 9. 



Herella, a Soudanese, 25. 



Hippopotamus, 85; eaten by all mem- 

 bers of caravan except the Somali, 89; 

 furious antics to reach deep water, 132. 



Hogs, wart, 287. 



Hohnel, Lieutenant von, i, 3; engages 

 Soudanese and Somali for expedition, 

 7; arrives at Lamoo, 10; goes to 

 Kismayu for camels, 1 1 ; arrives with 

 camels, oxen, etc., at Kismayu, 27; 

 his medicine chest, 29; in charge of 

 the rear guard, 36; sore feet, 46; at 

 Tuni, 51; leaves Tuni with river col- 

 umn, 57; gets an observation, 64; 

 visit to Galla chief, 68 ; power of 

 Mannlicher rifle, 79; starts on an ex- 

 pedition with Chanler, 81; endeavours 

 to induce natives to bring a sheep and 

 make friends, 103; shooting antelope 

 with Mannlicher rifle, 107 ; shoots 

 male rhinoceros, no; climbs hill to 

 take bearings, 1 1 1 ; Christmas Day 

 working on his map, 117; injured his 

 knee, 1 19; Somali tells him of the 

 Rendile, 121; on the Marisi Alugvva 

 Zombo, 127 ; stricken with fever, 137; 

 shoots rhinoceros at distance of eighty 



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