INDEX. 
3>° 
Mug, a musical, 66. 
Mu-komeni, 255. 
Munda, the island of, 4. 
Names, curious, 24. 
Natives, 45 ; pass us at full-trot, 65 ; 
and bee-hiving, 65; their ideas of 
distances, 96. 
Ndara, 53, 54, 55; scenery from, 
56, 59 ; the population of, 60. 
Ngai, 72. 
Ngatama, 271. 
Omari, a useful fellow, 39. 
Oryx, a couple of, secured, 246. See 
Antelope. 
Ostrich, the, 176, 177. 
Ostriches, feathers as ornaments, 68, 
73, 82 ; only five killed, 176 
Pangani, route, 9, 19 ; path, 80. 
Parker, Bishop, 26. 
Pari mountains, 74, 79, 106, 177. 
Parsees, in Zanzibar, 259. 
Party, our, 2. 
Pelican Lake, 270. 
Pemba, 21. 
Pest, a local, 242. 
Photographing natives, 48, 64, 123, 
158 - 
Pigeons, green, 127. 
Pira, the Sultan’s factotum, 12, 13. 
Pombe, 88, 109. 
Porters, Zanzibari, 8 ; our, 24, 33, 42 ; 
squabble over a giraffe’s carcass, 
78; Swahili, 169; mutiny among, 
187. 
Preston, an additional help, 39, 173 
Programme, our, 3. 
Punishment, a brutal mode of, 237. 
Purchasings, our, 62, 63. 
Quails, 57. 
ItABAl, 29; start for, 33, 35 ; arrival 
at, 36; a mission station, 36, 37 ; 
the country near, 35. 
Raft, a, constructed, 248. 
Rain, very local, 52. 
Rattles, worn on ankles, 83, 88, 116. 
Ravens, white, 127. 
Reporters, local, 28. 
Rhinoceros, a tough beast, 94 ; an in¬ 
quisitive, 98; my first, 128, 129; 
the, its speed, 130, 131 ; steaks, 
131; an enormous, a grand prize, 
140, 141 ; a, horn, 143; removing 
the horn of, 144, 145 ; two done 
for, 146, 147 ; one knocked over by 
another, a curious sight, 153; skull 
of, picked clean, 154; cow and 
bull, 155; a, tricornis, 155; tl>e 
black bicornis, 166, 167 ; attacked 
by a lion, 201. 
Rhinoceros-birds, 129. 
Rhino drive, a, 157. 
Rifle, theft of a, 160. 
Rliombu, 91. 
Roalf, German consul, 20, 21. 
Routes, the, 9. 
Sadalla, 267. 
Salt, an apology for, 179. 
Saltpans, natural, 265. 
Samburu reached, 47. 
Sayyid Bargash, 18. 
Scares, 185, 240. 
Secretary-bird, the, 143. 
Selous’, Mr., book, 48, 106. 
Shark, miraculous escape from a„4, 5. 
Shaw, Mr., 29, 30 ; protest from, 33 ; 
bid him adieu, 35. 
Sheets, waterproof, 60. 
Shells, beautiful, 10. 
“Short Street,” in, 178. 
Siafu, the, 251. 
Sina, 85; Mandara’s jealousy of, 104; 
rival of Mandara, 113; message 
from, 174; a despot, 180; behaviour 
towards us, 182 ; jealousy of Man¬ 
dara, 182 ; his men routed by a 
buffalo, 193; visit to, 206; his 
welcome to us, 207; his personal 
appearance and dress, 208; his 
attendants, 20S, 209 ; his courtesy, 
209 ; gives us frequent audiences, 
211 ; a powerful chief, 212; his 
