INDEX 
383 
Ostriches, 54, 126, 127, 149, 187 ; see 
seventeen, 105 ; description of, 323 
Outfit, 341 
Paget, Col. Arthur, 87, 88, 241, 307 ; 
threatened attack on, 161 
Panjabis enlisted at Aden, 80 
Panther, see Leopard 
“ Paradox ” gun, 265 
Partridges, 327 
Photographic outfit, 338, 340 
Physical geography of Somaliland, 
354 
Plants and trees, 361 
Plateau gazelles, 53, 315 
Ponies, description of, 33 
Porro, Count, expedition of, 144 
Purchase of tent, rifles, etc., 237 
Rabbits, 327 
Raiding tribes, 40 
Raids, Somalis and Gallas, 20, 40 
Rain, deluge of, 132, 203 
Rainy season, 36 
Ras Makunan, governor of Harar, 140, 
215, 223, 270 ; his orders to treat 
British travellers with courtesy, 
159 ; visit to Shoa, 159 ; visit to 
Rome, 170 ; expresses great friend- 
ship for the British, 171 ; author’s 
farewell visit to, 173 
Rations for natives, 344, 368 
Ravens, 327 
Records of big game, 293 
Remington rifles, 139 
Rer (tribal collective prefix), 19 
Rer Ali tribe, 12, 19, 178, 198 ; 
wealth of, 260 
Rer Amaden, 130, 148, 198, 202 
Rer Dahir Farah, sub-tribe, 19 
Rer Dollol and their camels, 97 
Rer Gedi, 128 
Rer Guled (family), 20 
Rer Hared spies, 106 ; robbers, 107 
Rer Harun, 122, 130, 197 
Rer Mattan (clan), 20 
Rer Samanter karias, 132 
Rer Shirmaki Adah, 20 
Rer Yunis Jibril, 97 
Rhinoceros, first one shot, 126 ; shoot 
fine bull, 128 ; horns as sword- 
handles, drinking -cups, etc., 141 ; 
horns given as present to Ras 
Makunan, 140 ; author’s adventure 
with, 180, 188; drinking, 181; 
plentiful in Jerer Valley, 187 ; at 
Nano, 192 ; description of, 297 
Rhinoceros bird, 31 
Rhinoceros Valley, or Dili Wiyileh, 
188 
Rifle kicks and injures author, 61 ; 
*577, used to shoot lion, 103 ; 
Winchester “express,” 200 ; Lee- 
Metford, success of, 201 
Rifles, the battery to take, 338 
Robleh, 20 
Rock rabbits, 327 
Rodd, Mr. Rennell, 268 
Ruins, 20 ; at Badwein, 90 
Ruspoli, Prince, 161, 207, 242, 245, 
259 
Saad Yunis, 88 
Said Harti, 19 
St. Raguel, Feast of, 278 
Sakdro antelopes, 60, 84, 226 ; descrip- 
tion of, 318 
Sala Asseleh, 135 
Sala, Mr., an Italian traveller, 108 
Salimbeni, Count, 170 
Samani, 204 
Samanter, 19, 120 ; my interpreter, 
84 
Samawe ruins, 23 ; tomb, 23 
Sarar-awr (camel-back plateau), 83 
Sattawa, halt at, to form camp, 108 
Scenery, variety of, 273 
Sclater, Dr., 95, 305 
Scorpions, 327 
Segag, 196 
Sen Morettu, 242, 255 
Seton Karr, Mr., 149 
Seyyid Mahomed, 240 
Seyyid Mahomed’s town, 4, 240 
Shabeleh, 130, 239 
Sliafai Mussulman, 19 
Sheep, 3, 35 ; export of, 3 
Sheikh, 44, 86 
Sheikh Mattar, the chief of Hargeisa, 
7, 16, 96, 116, 148, 240 
Shendil, 253 
Shield, 10, 298 
Shfrdone Yunis, 76 
Shire Shirmaki, 66, 68 
