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INDEX 



Mountain slopes 3500 feet above the sea 

 level, 110. 



Mountains, peaks of the General Mat- 

 thews range, 354. 



Mwalim, Hamis, headman of porters, 

 464; headman of deserters, 450. 



Mvvyru, chief, 487; slave-trading centre, 

 4S8. 



Native customs, blood-brotherhood, 186. 



Negro in cold weather, 154. 



Neumann, Mr., on an ivory-trading ex- 

 pedition, 491. 



Ngombe, a crater, 112, 268, 341, 343. 



Night march, from Kamanga, 285 ; in 

 the desert, 289. 



Oryx beisa, 129. 

 Osman Digna, 25. 

 Ostrich, 129. 



Patta, Island of, 15. 

 Peters, Dr., 3. ' 

 Photography, cameras carried on the ex- 

 pedition, 270. 

 Poisons, 257. 



Pokomo, native tribe on the Tana, 16; 

 a kindly race, 38; bring presents to 

 camp, 40; their knowledge of agricult- 

 ure, 44; at Massa, 48; and the Galla, 

 61 ; meeting expedition on the march 

 to Hameye, 202. 



Portal, Sir Gerald, 7. 



Porters, wages paid to, 8 ; burden borne by 

 each, eighty pounds, 33; carry burdens 

 on their heads, 33; afraid to go for 

 water owing to hippopotamuses, 85 ; 

 have little protection from the weather, 

 85 ; carry dried meat on the march, 90 ; 

 effects of meat diet, 90; death of, 131 ; 

 sick from dysentery, 150; their dread 

 of the Somali, 212; men excited with 

 Munchausen tales of the Rendile, 336; 

 killed by a rhinoceros, 387; demoral- 

 ized by rhinoceros charges, 388; and 

 the lions, 394; old men prefer slavery 

 to freedom, 403; prefer the Arab to 

 European for master, 404. 



Pratt, Mr. Seth A., 508. 

 Pumwani, 12, 16; and Jongeni, their 

 raids, 17. 



Rain, rainy season on the banks of the 

 Tana, 52; changes the appearance of 

 camp at Hameye, 81 ; sickness in 

 camp during the rainy season, 232; 

 rainy season at Daitcho, 427; the 

 Tana not fordable at any point dur- 

 ing rainy season, 443. 



Ramazan, interpreter to expedition, 22; 

 chief of Soudanese, 457. 



Rendile tribe, 4; exact habitat of tribe 

 unknown, 4; their wealth, 4; wander- 

 ings of, 4; tribe, 107; to be found near 

 Lorian, 121, 280; woman, married to 

 Bykender, 223; gathering of armed 

 natives, 292; their appearance, 294; 

 their craving for tobacco, 295 ; chiefs 

 visit camp, 296; never heard of Euro- 

 peans, 297; never travel at night, 298; 

 their ornaments, 299; warriors paint 

 their faces, 299; war dance, 300; re- 

 covery of camels taken by the dthom- 

 bon, 300; their language, 303; muti- 

 lated in an extraordinary manner, 303; 

 " we are the great Rendile tribe," 304; 

 warriors visit Chanler's camp, 306; 

 loathe any colour but white, 308; 

 mounted upon a horse, 31 1; women 

 of, and their costume, 312; tribe, num- 

 ber about 20,000, 313; supposed to 

 possess in round numbers 80,000 cam- 

 els, 313; their huts and wanderings 

 313; express contempt for the rifles 

 used by the Somali, 314; their belief 

 in a God, 315; are circumcised and na- 

 vels cut away, 315; polygamy in vogue, 

 315; their funeral ceremony, 316; 

 primogeniture, 316; adultery, 317; 

 murder, 317; theft, 317; the older men 

 act as judges, 317; their food, 317; 

 their shields and spears, 318; a chief 

 presides over each village, 318; strings 

 of beads around a man's neck indicate 

 the number of men he has slain in 

 battle, 318; as to the origin of the 



