INDEX 
533 
Potha, 75 
Prinsloo, Mr., 37, 42 
“Protective coloration,” 43, 44, 45, 338, 
358, Appendix E 
Puff-adder, 186, 193, 286, 383 
Python, 111, 155 
Quin, 378 
Race week. 225 
“ Railway Journey, Most Interesting, in 
the World,” 10 
Ranquet, M., 436 
Rate!, or honey badger, 324 
Rats, different species of, 213, 229, 383 
Redjaf, 436 
Reedbuck, mountain, 42, 55 ; Bohor, 
327, 334, 337, 353, 377 
Renkin, M. Appendix A 
Rewero Falls, 127 
Rewero River, 104, 126 
Rhinoceros, 57, 89-91 et seq., 115-118 ; 
habits of different species of, 172, 175, 
180 ; “ Keitloa ” type of horn of, 192 ; 
comparison with elephant of, 236; 
finest specimen of, 256, 262 ; porter 
tossed and gored by a, 304 ; the 
square-mouthed or white, 393-396, 
400 ; difference in size of, 400, 401, 
404-407 ; pictures of, 412, 413 ; horn 
measurement of, 414, 415 ; unusual 
position of, 420, 423 
Rifles, 22 ; donors of the elephant rifle, 
22; first trial of the Holland, 90 ; 
work done by the different, 98 ; com¬ 
parison of, 116, 118, 119, 121, 157, 
163, 164, 170, 176, 192, 193, 221, 254, 
263, 442 
Rift Valley, 425 
Rohr, the, 449 
Roosevelt, Kermit, 3, 23, 98 ; red-letter 
day of, 160, 173, 177, 191, 202, 225, 
227 ; successful photos of wild ele¬ 
phant taken by, 256, 280, 281 ; un¬ 
equalled record in killing cheetahs of, 
281, 315, 316 ; twentieth birthday of, 
318, 328, 335, 338, 361 ; hunt for 
sable of, 362 et seq., 380 ; good rhino 
pictures taken by, 412 ; health of, 428, 
456 ; devotion of followers to, 430 ; 
in seeing and chasing game, skill of, 
191, 441 
Roosevelt, Theodore, sails from New 
York, 3 ; arrival at Mombasa of, 6; 
starts on a hunt alone, 250 ; fifty-first 
birthday of, 323 ; health throughout 
trip of, 456 
Rumeruti, 315 
Sable, the, 362 
“Safari,” 16, 80, 154; peace-offering to 
the “ safari ants,” 267 ; attraction for 
natives of work of, 325 ; good-bye to 
the, 354 ; conduct of the, 354 ; “ wood 
safari,” 432 
Sahara, 366 
Saises, or horse-boys, 19, 273, 274 
Salt marsh, a, 199, 200 
Samburu, the, cattle-owning nomads, 
305 
Sanderson, Captain, Town Clerk, 320 
Sandiford, Mr., 60 
Scale for weighing game, 25, 313 
Schilling, Carl G., “Flashlight and 
Rifle,” Appendix E 
Scientific expedition, difficulty of trans¬ 
porting supplies on a, 288 
Scotch settlers, engaged to take charge 
of the safari, 265 
Selous, Frederick Courteney, 3, 5, 6, 42, 
62, 180, 223 
Serval cat, 281, 444 
“Shambas,” 233 
“Shenzis,” wild natives, 258, 272, 374 ; 
gifts to the, 444 
Situtunga, 373 
Skally, Mr., 347-348 
Skins, difficulty in preparing, 137, 142, 
436 
Slatin Pasha, 436 
Slatter, Captain Arthur, 37, 38, 89, 92, 
94, 96, 97 
Sleeping sickness, ravages of, 39, 58, 
364 ; preventive of, 365 ; sleeping- 
sickness fly. bite of, 399 
Smith hopelessly crippled by a lion, 153 
Smith, Captain, 320 
Smith, William Lord, 345 
Smithsonian, 3 
Snakes, 193, 286 ; man bitten by a, 326, 
383 
Soldiers, Sikh, 372 ; Egyptian and 
Soudanese, 445 
Solve, M., 452 
Somalis, 105, 226 
Songs, native : victory song, 75, 79, 213 ; 
on death of elephant, 255 ; Kikuyu 
savages’ songs, 266, 351, 431 
Sotik, 144, 195 
Soudan, success of English rule in the, 
445 
Southern Cross, 30 
Spearmen, Nandi, 350 
Spirillum tick, 375 
Springhaas, 214, 221 ; “shining” spring- 
haas by night, 226, 227 
“Star-spangled Banner, The,” 369 
Stations, condition of railroad, 14 
Steinbuck, 42, 192, 273 ; conspicuous 
coat of the, 277, 353 
Stevenson, 340, 345 
Stigand, 62 
