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Abdee Achmet, his account of the runaways,
482.
Abdullah Ben Hamed, governor of La-
moo, 15; governor, visits camp at
Mkonumbi, 33.
Abdurachman and Gwaharam, two Be-
loochi, 438.
Achmet Dualla, 26, 290, 331; deserted
by Mohamadi and six men, 332.
Aden, Somali engaged at, 7.
Aden, 511.
African, characteristics of sick African,
152.
African traveller, impossible to be an
expert in all branches of science,
272.
African tribes prefer war to trade, 325.
Allen, Mr., 508, 509.
Antelope and zebra, herds of, 113.
Antelope, new species, “ Cervicapra
Chanleri,” 431; small herds, 124.
Ants, red, called by natives “ boiling
water,” 63.
Apes, attracted by camp-fire, 128.
Baboons and the dogs, 392.
Balook Bashi (Mahomet el Hussein),
46; shoots a deserter, 58; reduced to
the ranks, 61.
Balooki Bashi, chief of Soudanese, 21.
Baobab tree, girth forty-eight feet, 109.
Baraka, tent-boy, 9 ; his experience in
caravan work, 10; marches with Chan-
ler, 164; tent-boy, drowned in the
Tana, 434.
Barfalatta, 12.
Beasts of burden, difficulty of procuring,
230.
Beasts of burden in East Africa, 147.
Benayo village, 67.
Berkenedji or Samburu tribe, 281.
Bird, honey bird, 277.
Birds, singing birds on the Guaso Nyiro
River, 124.
Blood brothers with the white man, 159.
Blood-brotherhood, 185, 186; manner of
performing the ceremony, 187; ceremony
performed with the Rendile, 305.
Blood-brotherhood with thè Daitcho,
219.
Boat, a canvas Berthon, 63.
“ Boma,” a zeriba, held by warriors as an
outpost, 198.
Borana tribe, enemies of the Rendile, 318.
Borana, distance from Kome, 319.
Bridge over the Guaso Nyiro, 117.
Bridges, constructing, across the Tana,
474-
British East African Company, 7, 12, 15,
69.
Buffalo, 141.
Bugoi, village of the Wanderobbo, 355.
Bykender, married to a Rendile woman,
223 ; tells the story of his Rendile
wife, 223 ; a rich native of Daitcho
tribe, 223; visits camp, 405.
Bykender, 225, 457, 467.
Camels, death of, 65 ; the Rendile tribe
supposed to possess 80,000, 313.
Camp at Hameye, a paradise, 70.
Camp, building at Daitcho, 234.