INDEX 
453 
Marabout storks, 21, 346, 364; native 
name, 21 
Marasambiti, Mount, 252 
Martini-Henry rifle, 5, 38, 73 
Masai tribe, 13, 14, 40, 143, 291 ; of 
Ndoro, 128 ; dances, 231 ; present 
location, 246 ; language, 267 
Mathews range, 106, 163, 177, 183, 
196; “ subugo ” forest on, 183; 
altitude, 194 
Metford rifle, 19 
Milk, a luxury in Central Africa, 329 ; 
utensils and mode of milking, 145, 329 
Millet crops, 131, 288, 294, 304, 306, 
317 ; native mode of protection, 319 
Mimosas, 36, 84, 184, 185, 186, 197, 
248, 259, 269 ; use for bark, 102 
Mineral (natron ?) in crater lake, 82 ; use 
by Wakanda tribe, 83 
Mission station at Ikutha, 8, 143, 430 ; 
suitable spot for, 222 
“ Mkongi ” plant, 108, 215; use for 
fibre, 109 
Mkwavi tribe, 339 
Mnyamiri, Swahili guide and interpreter, 
272, 275, 285, 288, 289, 308, 429; 
his exorcism, 313 
Mnyithu tribe, 66 ; author’s trouble 
with, 78 ; akin to the Kikuyu, 128 
Mombasa, 1, 2, 134; author’s first 
acquaintance with, 2 ; description, 4 ; 
expeditions from, 5, 137 ; return to, 
133, 432 ; earthquake at, 137 
Monkeys, Cercopithecus albotorquatus, 
129 ; yellow, 129 ; cry, 129; colobus, 
318 
Mosquitoes, 176, 202, 210, 249, 289, 
2 95> 300, 318, 325, 332 
Mreya spring, 215 
Msara ( see Mthara) 
Mthara district, description, 34 ; camp 
at, 40, 67, 125 
Mthara tribe, 40, 41 ; as guides, 67 
Mtiya, 133 
Mtiya’s, at Ukambani, 145 
Murkeben hill, 173, 258; author’s 
definition, 251 
Murli, 304, 318; pronunciation, 304 
note ; native disfigurement, 305 
Murthu, 318, 319 
Naivasha, Lake, 241 
Ndaminuki, author’s “blood brother,” 
42, 126, 224 
Ndara, 9 
Ndoro, Masai tribe of, 128 
Ndorobo country, 79 ; original tribes, 246 
Ndorobo tribe, nomadic life, 13, 79 ; as 
guides, 14, 16, 86, 91, 101, 106, 
no, 114, 172, 173; huts, 15, 230, 
242, 243 ; food prejudice, 25 ; staple 
food, 79, 245 ; as hunters, 80, 95, 
no, 193, 229, 245; drinking blood 
of animals, 84 ; hunting weapons, 
94; feasting on elephants, 99, 105, 
108, 193, 209 ; reliability, 104 ; 
headman’s qualification, 115; belief 
in charms, 115, 244; inferior race, 
128 ; customs, 220, 391 ; dances, 231 ; 
compared with Swazies, 245 ; marriage, 
246 ; ethnology, 246, 247 ; at Lake 
Rudolph, 267 ; language, 267 ; con¬ 
ception of the Deity, 426 ; author’s 
observations on, 426 
“Ngunga” (crater lake), 63 
Njambeni Range (see Jambeni Range) 
Njangitomara (giraffe) stream, 84 
“ Nyama Yangu” (author’s Swahili 
name), 6 
Nyiro, Mount, 86, 90, 93, 105, 220, 
248, 251, 382; “ subugo ” forest on, 
253 ; author’s definition, 253; western 
face, 256 
“ Ongata Barta” (horse pasture), 91, 
92, 239, 249, 251 
“Ongata Ndamez” (camel veldt), 91, 
223, 250; corrupt spelling, 91 note 
Orchids, 120 
Oryx antelope ( Oryx beisa), 17, 22, 26, 
68, 75, 81, 89, 175, 184, 261, 280; 
stalking, 23 ; cry, 26 ; milk, 84 ; 
resembling unicorn, 93 ; horns, 363 ; 
use of horns by El Molo tribe, 378 ; 
author’s observations on, 418 
Ostriches, 17, 22, 27, 67, 81, 253 ; 
nest, 93 ; voice resemblance, 335 
“ Paa” ( see Kirk’s antelope) 
Pack-animals, loss from climate and fly, 
28, 48, 160, 161, 162, 168 ; pack- 
saddles, 135, 160, 363 ; treatment, 
135, 200 ; watering, 139, 273 ; cross¬ 
ing the Tana river, 157 ; loads, 160, 
162, 200, 341, 344, 362 ; stamped¬ 
ing, 194 ; killed by lions, 252, 395 ; 
Turkana species, 341, 428 
Pallah antelope (see Impala antelope) 
Pangani, 135 
“Papa,” author’s Ndorobo guide, 14, 
22, 82, 104, 118 
“ Pate de faro,” 283 
