INDEX 
Abdulla, author’s Swahili headman, 
133, 135, 145, 167, 213, 224, 226, 
248, 286, 404 
Adventures with elephants, 187, 322, 
350; with snake, 254; with lions, 
233 , 391 , 397 
Africa, Central, average English idea of 
location, 1 ; transport, 7, 48, 351 ; 
cattle plague in, 27, 117, 142, 253, 
333 ; author’s dealings with natives, 78, 
226 ; luxuries in, 329, 333 ; slavery, 
330 ; description of country, 427 
Africa, South-Eastern, author’s previous 
knowledge of, 5 
Air-currents, Ndorobo mode of testing, 
96; author’s, 96, 112 
Alia Bay, 272, 274, 373 
Ammunition, author’s observations on, 
121, 336 ; South African native’s, 121 
44 Angata ” {see 4 4 Ongata ”) 
Ant-heaps, 284, 294, 297, 355, 358 
Athi River, 138, 431 ; author road¬ 
cutting at, 141 ; varieties of guinea- 
fowl at, 142 
Baboons, 53, 146, 163 
Baikenda, headman at Laiju, n, 12 
Baithai, an Ndorobo, 172, 213, 214, 218, 
225, 235, 388 
Bananas, 12, 31, 77, 120; native mode 
of cooking, 126 
Baobabs, 82 ; for hanging bee-tubs, 144; 
suitability for canoes, 151 
44 Bara,” derivation, 394 note 
Barasaloi River, 177, 184, 192, 198, 
248, 385 
44 Barbers, ” 26, 267 ; proportions, 338 
Baringo, 30, 256 
Barta spruit, 384 
Barter, medium for, 134, 263, 268, 312, 
329 , 376 
Bassu (Lake Rudolph), 256, 266, 273, 
289* 33 1 5 378 ; description, 257, 382 ; 
stone circles at, 258; author’s illness 
at, 332 
Batshada, 302 
Bawdo, a Kere native, 314 
Bee-eaters {Merops nubicus), rose- 
coloured, 280; pursuit of prey, 281, 
340 ; green, 280 
Bees, 104, 245, 248; author attacked by, 
57 
Beetles, 332 
Bee-tubs, 57, 245 ; trees for hanging, 
144 ; tapping, 248 
44 Biltong,” 19, 23, 27, 51, 285, 364; 
curing, 365 note 
44 Blood-brotherhood,” author’s, 11, 42, 
78, 128, 130; Mr. Chanler’s, 33; 
Dr. Kolb’s, 130 
“Bomas” at Laiju, 12, 119, 124; at 
Mthara, 40 ; at El Bogoi, 167, 393 
British Museum, 9; author’s Grant’s 
gazelle, 238 ; northern giraffe head, 
411 ; suggestion as to arrangement of 
specimens, 419 
Bryden, Mr. H. A., 412 
Bubal, West-African, 303 
Bubalis neumanni , 301 ; Hon. W. 
Rothschild’s note on, 303 
Buffaloes, 35, 84, 372; in Natal, 2 ; 
scarcity since cattle plague, 27, 142, 
253 
Bumi, 291, 294, 308, 339; inhabitants, 
295 ; breed and peculiarity of poultry, 
333 
Burchell’s zebra, author’s observations 
on, 210 note , 242, 372; proportions, 
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