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INDEX. 



Asclepias in the Usagara mountains, i. 

 165. 



Ashmed bin Nuuman, the Wajhayn or 

 " two faces," i. 3. 



Assegais of the Wasagara tribe, i. 237. 

 Of the Wanyamwezi, ii. 22. Of East 

 Africa generally, 301. 



Ass, the African, described, i. 85. Those 

 of the expedition, 151. Loss of, 180. 

 Fresh asses purchased from a down cara- 

 van, 209. 



Asthma, or zik el nafas, remedy in East 



Africa for, i. 96. 

 Atheism, aboriginal, ii. 342. 



Bakera, village of, i. 92. 



Bakshshish, in the East, ii. 84, 85. The 

 propriety of rewarding bad conduct, 85. 

 Influence of, ii. 172. 



Balochs, the, of Zanzibar, described, i. 14. 

 Their knavery, 85. Their behaviour on. 

 the march, 127. Sketch of their charac- 

 ter, 132. Their quarrels with the "Sons 

 of Ramji," 163. Their desertion and 

 return, 173. Their penitence, 177. 

 Their character, 177, 178. Their dis- 

 content and complaints about food, 212, 

 221. And proposed desertion, 273, 278. 

 Their bile cooled, 274. Their injury to 

 the expedition, 319. Their breakfast on 

 the march, 345. Their manoeuvres at 

 Kazeh, 376. Their desertion, ii. 111. 

 Influenced by bakhshish, 217. Their 

 quarrel with the porters, 253. Doing 

 " Zam," ii. 276. Sent home, 277. 



Bana Dirunga, village of, i. 71. 



Banadir, Barr el, or harbour-land, geogra- 

 phy of, i. 30. 



Bangwe, islet of, in Lake Tanganyika, ii. 

 53. Described 99. 



Banyans, the, of the East Coast of Africa, 

 i. 19. 



Baobab Tree of East Africa, i. 47. 



Barghash, Sayyid, of Zanzibar, a state 

 prisoner at Bombay, i. 3. 



Barghumi, the, of East Africa, ii. 294. 



Bark -cloth, price of, at Uvira, ii. 121. 



Basket making in East Africa, ii. 316. 



Basts of East Africa, ii. 317. 



Battle-axes of the Wanyamwezi, ii. 23. 

 Of the East Africans, 307. 



Bazar-gup, or tittle-tattle in the East, i. 12. 



Bdellium Tree, or Mukl, of Ugogo, i. 299. 

 Uses of, among the Wagogo, 300. 



Beads, mode of carrying, in the expe- 

 dition, i. 145. Account of African 

 beads of commerce, 146. Currency at 

 Msene, 398. Those most highly valued 

 in Ujiji, ii. 72. Bead trade of Zanzibar, 

 390. 



Bedding required for the expedition, i. 154. 

 Beds and bedding of the East Africans, i. 

 370. 



Beef, roast, and plum-pudding at Msene, 

 i. 400. 



Bee-hives, seen for the first time at 

 Marenga Mk'hali, i. 200. Their shape, 

 200. Of Rubuga, 317. 



Beer in East Africa, ii. 285. Mode of 

 making it, 286. 



Bees in K'hutu, i. 120. But no bee- 

 hives, 120. Wild, attack the caravan, 



i. 176, 248, 249. Annoyance of, at 

 K'hok'ho, 276. Of East Africa, ii. 

 287. 



Beetles in houses at Ujiji, ii. 91, note. 

 One in the ear of Captain Speke, 91, 



note. 



Belok, the Baloch, sketch of him, i. 135. 

 Berard, M„ his kindness, i. 22. 

 Berberah, disaster at, referred to, i. 68. 

 Bhang plant, the, in Zungcmero, i. 95. 



Smoked throughout East Africa, 96. 



Effects produced by, 96, Used in Ujiji, 



ii. 70. 



Billhooks carried by the Wasagara tribe, i. 

 238. 



Birds, mode of catching them, i. 160. 

 Scarcity of, in East Africa, 270. Of 

 Ugogo, 300. Period of nidification and 

 incubation of, ii. 13. Of Unyamwezi, 

 16. Of Ujiji, 60. 



Births and deaths amongst the Wazaramo, 

 customs at, i. 115, 116, 118, 119. 



Bivouac, a pleasant, i. 245. 



Black Magic. See Uchawi. 



Blackmail of the Wazaramo, i. 70, 113. 

 Of the Wak'hutu, 121. Of the Waze- 

 gura, 125. At Ugogo, 252. Account 

 of the blackmail of East Africa, 253. 

 At Kirufuru, 264. At Kanyenye, 265. 

 In K'hok'ho, 274. At Mdaburu, 279. 

 At Wanyika, 407. At Ubwari island, 

 ii. 114. 



Blood of cattle, drunk in East Africa, ii. 282. 

 Boats of the Tanganyika Lake, described, 

 ii. 94. 



Boatmen of the Tanganyika Lake, ii. 101. 

 Bomani, "the stockade," village of, i. 47. 



Halt at, 47. Vegetation of, 47, 48. 



Departure from, 51. 

 Bombax, or silk cotton tree, of Uzaramo, 



i. 60. 



Bonye fiumara, accident to a caravan in the, 



ii. 270. 



Books required for the expedition, i. 155. 

 Borassus flabelliformis, or Palmyra tree, in 



the plains, i. 180. Toddy drawn from, 



181. 



Bos Caffer, or Mbogo, in the plains of East 



