INDEX 



533 



Rendile, 319; their familiarity with 

 Masai tongue explained, 320; their 

 idea of a deity, 320; their govern- 

 ment, 321 ; position of their medicine- 

 men, 321 ; their most powerful village 

 presided over by Lokomogul, 321 ; un- 

 able to penetrate the mystery sur- 

 rounding them, 323; warriors visit 

 Chanler's camp at Seran, 328; aston- 

 ished at the power of a rifle bullet, 

 330; spread false reports, 418; recep- 

 tion of Zanzibari caravan, 426. 



Rhinoceros, 129, 151 ; herd of, 148; 

 Lieutenant von Hohnel nearly killed 

 by, 380; charge the caravan, 385; and 

 the dogs, 391. 



Rifles used to slay game, 77; which rifles 

 best for general use, 78; letter to Lon- 

 don Field concerning, 79; shooting 

 large game, 80; used in shooting hip- 

 popotamuses, 86; carried by men in 

 an unsatisfactory condition, 148. 



Rivers having their sources at Mount 

 Kenya, 115. 



Road from Voi to the coast, 497. 



Rudolph, Lake, I. 



Sabaki River, 1 1 5. 



Sadi, captain of the fleet, 17. 



Saleh's Hill, 83. 



Samburu, 306; forced into semi-serfdom 



to the Rendile, 316. 

 Samburu tribe, 281. 



Sayer, camp at, 352; River, its source, 377. 



Scenery, view from camp in the moun- 

 tains, III. 



Scientific travellers and sportsmen, 76. 



Seran, 327; oasis in the desert, 287. 



Seyd Ali, Sultan of Zanzibar, 7; news of 

 his death, 401. 



Shooting, walleri antelope, 70; water- 

 buck and antelope, 76; use of rifle in 

 provisioning caravan, 76; for food, 77; 

 Soudanese noisy enthusiasm at the 

 sight of game, 84; water-buck, 84; 

 hippopotamus, 85; rhinoceros, 92, 96; 

 antelope with Mannlicher, 107; rhi- 

 noceros, shot by Lieutenant von 



Hohnel, iio; herd of oryx beisa, ill; 



herd of grantii, 1 1 1 ; male oryx, 1 14. 

 Sissini, 51. 

 Siu, Island of, 15. 



Skin of oryx beisa used by Somali for 

 shields, ill. 



Slavery in East Africa, 404. 



Slaves purchased by Arabs leased out to 

 European travellers, 5. 



Slave-trading centre at Mwyru's, 488. 



Snake, Chanler's adventure with, 342. 



Somali, 212; wanderings of Somali tribes, 

 4; engaged for the care of beasts of bur- 

 den, 6; good knowledge of shooting, 

 28; attack elephant-hunters, 54; and 

 Soudanese, jealousy between the tvs'o 

 races, 74; certain beasts unlawful for 

 them to eat, 89; their custom to spend 

 the night in prayer on the eve of a 

 dangerous enterprise, 164; good fight- 

 ing men, 178; enemies of the Rendile, 

 303 ; robbed by the natives of Daitcho, 

 472; their superstitious fear of strange 

 noises, 473 ; and Soudanese, discharged 

 at Aden, 511. 



Soudanese as soldiers, 21 ; excellent shots, 

 28; dissatisfaction of, 46; attempt to 

 assert their independence, 74; violent 

 discussion over the relative merits of 

 rhinoceros and hippopotamus, 92 ; 

 refuse to eat meat, loS; threaten to 

 starve themselves unless they have 

 grain diet, 108; good fighting men, 

 178; desert the expedition, 457; de- 

 serters taken into the service of the 

 Sultan of Zanzibar, 507. 



Stairs, Captain, 9. 



Stanley, 5. 



Stephanie, Lake, I. 



Subaki, 47. 



Subugo (forest), 378. 



Suliman Kemenya, an ardent revolution- 

 ist, 420. 



Sulphate of magnesium, ground white 



with, 115. 

 Superstition of natives, 194. 

 Sururu, his character, 9; tent-boy, 9, 



509; wounded by a rhinoceros, 133. 



