INDEX. 
675 
Baure, a species of ficus, large specimen, i. 
392. Poorer specimens, iv. 64. 
Baushi trees, ii. 12. 
Baya and its inhabitants, ii. 613. 
Beans, cultivation of, ii. 310; iv. 29, passim. 
Bean-tressels excellent food for camels, iv. 89. 
Bechi town and neighbourhood, ii. 92. 
Bedanga and its inhabitants, iii. 594, 608. 
Bedde territory and its inhabitants de- 
scribed, iv. 33. 
Bedstead, kind of, necessary for an African 
traveller, ii. 8. Curious bedsteads in 
A'gades, i. 442. 
Beehives, ii. 91. Underground, 377. 
Bees, dangerous attack by, iii. 240. 
B'egungu island, in the Niger, v. 289. 
Belande village, v. 31 1. 
Belang, important town of Gurma, iv. 560. 
Belem, residence of Mallem Delil, town 
and its inhabitants, ii. 451, 523. 
Bello, sultan, character, iv. 513. Notice of 
his work, 187. 
Belussa important town, of Mosi, iv. 563. 
Beni Ulid, troublesome place, v. 451. 
Bennanaba, or Benaba, chief town of Gurma, 
meaning of name, iv. 559. 
Benon, camp where Park was kept a pri- 
soner, V. 491. 
Bentang tree, see Silk cotton tree. 
Benuwe river, ii. 464, 517. The great arm 
of the Kwara, 467. Period of rising and 
falling, 475. Its importance for the in- 
tercourse with the interior, ii. 348 ; iii. 
132, 134. 
Benzari, town of Manga, ii. 175. 
Berabish (sing. Berbushi) tribe, sections of, 
in A'zavvad, v. 464. Their hostility to- 
wards me, 491, 505, Chief of Berabish 
murderer of Major Laing, iv. 500. Death 
of his son, 509. 
Berber population, historical notices of, i. 
223. Licentious manners of frontier 
tribes, 288 ; v. 1 90. 
Berberuwa well of Manga country, iv. 43. 
Beri village and inhabitants, iii. 50. Route 
to from Ngegimi, 92, Jiote. Former im- 
portance, 500, seq. 
Berninkoro, Bambara village, v. 499. 
Besher villages and well near Kukawa, ii. 
242. 
Beteha valley of Wadai, principal villages 
along the, iii. 578. 
Beting district, character of the Niger in, 
v. 254. 
Bu el Hamesh, well of Kanem, iii. 108. 
Birchi village, v. 355. 
Birmenawa town, ii. 164; v. 373. 
Birni, or Ghasr-eggomo, the old capital of 
Bornu, founded by whom, ii. 644. De- 
scription of its ruins, iv. 50. 
Birni town on Niger and inhabitants, v. 287. 
Birni-n-Debe, site of and forest scenery, iv. 
223. 
Birni-n-Kebbi and its inhabitants, iv. 212; 
V. 322, N. B, Other names beginning 
with the term Birni look for under the 
second part of the name. 
Bitinkobe tribe, v. 289. 
Bizuggu town, iv, 554. 
Blacksmiths of the Tawarek, i, 373. Black- 
smith's workshop described, ii. 376. 
Boats on the Tsad, ii. 327, on the Shari, iii. 
293, 297, of the Musgu, 220, on the 
Benuwe, ii. 469, on the Niger iv. 242, 362 ; 
V. 276. Represented in PI. iv. 391, 
395. 
Bodinga town and market, v. 333, 
Boghel valley, its picturesque and rich cha- 
racter, i. 395. 
Bogo village, iii. 186. 
Bokhari, governor of Khadeja, his expedi- 
tion against Khadeja, his success, and what 
use he made of it, ii. 175 ; v. 350. 
Bokhari, learned man of Sokoto, iv. 528. 
Bokhari, a learned man of Gando, iv. 200. 
Bone village, iv. 336. 
Bongesemba village, on the Upper Niger or 
Dhiuliba, different quality of the water of 
the two branches of the river at, v, 477. 
Books should be sent out to Central Afnca, 
V. 43. Manuscript books in Bagirmi, iii. 
373, 
Bore town, v. 466. 
Bornu, general character of history of, ii. 
253. Form of government, 270, 648. 
Friends and instructors in, 283-290. 
Bornu, chronological table of events and 
list of kings of, ii. 633. 
Bornu army, appearance of, iii. 165. De- 
tachments composing the cavalry of, in 
the expedition to Musgu, 521. 
Bornu proper, boundaries of, ii. 201. 
Bornu- Gungu, or Barnu-Gungu, island in 
the Niger, scenery round, v. 242. 
Borzari, town of Bornu, iv. 32. 
Bose village and inhabitants, v. 281. 
Bosebango village and inhabitants, iv. 267- 
271. 
Bot-hadiye post on the Senegal, v. 500. 
Compare 670, n. 
Bread of Magaria, i. 522. Of balanites, iii. 
386. 
Budduma, islanders of theTsad Identical with 
the Yedina, ii. 324. Their character, 324. 
Their canoes, 327. Overweg's visit to their 
islands, iii. 8. 
Bugarl village, iii. 317 ; described, 334, 
Buggoma river, iv. 303. 
Bugla well, v. 489. 
Bugoman town on Shari, iii, 331. 
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