INDEX 
Abarri river, 238. 
Abbott, Dr., 263. 
Accident, by burning, 87 ; seizure 
by a lion, SS. 
Alarm, a false, 70, 71, 138, 219. 
Alligators, shot, 192; 248, 250. 
Ancestors, worship of, 85, 118, 175. 
Ant, a quite terrible, 251. 
Antelope, a sable, 46, 47 ; a pretty 
little, 99 ; female, 99 ; oryx-beisa, 
99, 163, 222. 
Ant-heaps, 98, 99. 
Anthem, National, of Zanzibar, 15, 
17 - 
Anole, my man, 40; cuts a figure, 
51; on the war-path, 70; sets 
fire to the dry meadow-grass, 72; 
punished, 161 ; incapable of pack¬ 
ing, 173 ; looks after himself, 181 ; 
in a bad way, 221. 
Arabs, 6, 15, 29, 32. 
Arcadia, a peaceful, 81 ; a native, 
180. 
Ariangulu, camp at, 48 ; 54. 
Armoury, our, 9. 
Ashe, Mr., 4. 
Attendants, our personal, 40, 173. 
Baboons, 196. 
Bait, human, 125. 
Banana, the, the staple food, 63. 
Barani, river, 274, 276. 
Battery, our, 41. 
Beads, in favour, 59, 68, 82, S3 ; 
trade in, 174. 
Beehive huts, 80, 81, 120. 
Bees, manner of hiving, 65 ; attack 
of, 268. 
Belail, a wretched Bahai man, 89, 
90, 171. 
Binns, Mr., 37. 
Bismarck thunders terrific threats. 
20. 
Blood-brothers, ceremonv of making, 
85 - 
Boats, propelling, on the Tana, 
267. 
Bohete, a head man, 39. 
Boots, loss of our, 87 ; recovery of, 94. 
Bows and arrows, 59. 
Boy, a mission, catechises me, 37. 
Boycotting, common in Africa, 272. 
Brandy, Hamburg, 264. 
Bridges, primitive, 103. 
Buffalo, the African, 105, 189, 190; 
danger of hunting, 105, 106; my 
introduction to, 138; abundant, 
183 ; my first, 189 ; a magnificent 
specimen, 1S9 ; an infuriated, 191 ; 
a tough, 195 ; a capital bull, who 
charged us, shot dead, 201 ; one 
killed by a single shot, 236 ; 238. 
Buffalo-birds, 138. 
Bullets, steel-tipped, 141. 
Bush-buck, an unwary, 194; the, 
194. 
Bush-land, 51, 53, 61. 
CaCeciHK, a wily nigger, 38,39; makes 
a stirring speech, 56, 57 ; 62 ; as 
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