Jombeni range, 213; their plantations
and cattle, 219; marriage customs,
221; men kept employed, 335; camp
in charge of George in good condition,
335» capture of robbers, 338; native
dance, 410; children dance, 414; full-
dress dance, 414; dancing a serious
business, 414; tribe and the locusts,
440; to Mombasa 450 miles, 470; the
zeriba at, 470; the country of, opened
to Europeans and raissionariesf 471 ;
disastrous results of digging up cartridges
left by Chanler, 480.
Dance, native, by Daitcho tribe, 410.
David, English-speaking negro, at Dick’s
trading-post, 487.
Denhardt, Gustave, first to ascend the
Tana River, 3, 16; at Lamoo, 15.
Deserters, 46-48, 56, 65, 205; the most
serious difficulty, impossible to overcome,
209; sent to Zanzibar by Sir
Lloyd Matthews, 500; their false statements
to Mr. Allen and Sir Lloyd
Matthews refuted, 502.
Dick, trading-post owned by, 487.
Dogs, fox-terrier and native, 206; Felix,
the fox-terrier, and the hippopotamuses,
211 ; Felix, the fox-terrier, and the
elephants, 363; and water-buck, 390;
Felix and two other fox-terriers attack
a rhinoceros, 382; afraid of a lion, ~
392; Felix, the fox-terrier, seizes the !
ear of a rhinoceros, 391; only useful
in the early morning or late afternoon
on account of heat, 391 » an(^
baboons, 392; Felix, the fox-terrier,
killed by a crocodile, 410.
Donkeys, die of fly-bites, 123; death of,
288.
Donyo Loldeikau, mountain range, 149.
Donytuli Mono Vomari, a mighty wizard,
248.
“ Dthombon” robbers, 289.
Dukuli, 49.
Dundas, 4.
Elephant hunters in the camp at Tuni, 53.
Elephants, herd of twenty-two, 131; traps
used by the Wanderobbo to capture
them, 350; in search of, with the Wanderobbo,
360; hunting, 366, 367, 369;
heart of, a delicacy, 368.
Embe tribe, near Mount Kenya, 105;
their knowledge of agriculture, 105;
country of, 179; assist the expedition
on the march, 182; anoint their skins
with castor oil, 188; religious sanctity
for anything of extraordinary size, 188;
natives chew bark of “ Miraa,” 189;
their physique, 190; attack expedition,
200 ; visit of leaders to camp at
Daitcho, 228 ; native women traders,
239; their market-places, 239 ; bracing
air 5000 feet above the sea-level,
241; native story, 242; old men subsist
entirely on meat diet, 242 ; their
government, 242; questions of moment
discussed exclusively by old men, 245;
the population, 245; home and foreign
policy, 246; raids of the warriors, 246;
marriage customs, 2 4 7 superstition of,
247; advice of Donytuli Mono Vomari,
a wizard, 248; married men, 248; men
divided into two classes, warriors and
old men, 248; their religion, 249;
local deities wise men, 250; circumcision,
251; courtship, 251; young girls
and boys naked, 252; articles manufactured,
253; manner of burying the
dead, 253; dancing their sole amusement,
253; dig pits as traps for elephants
and rhinoceros, 254; iron, tools, and
arms, 254; their bows and arrows, 254;
women weave bags, 254; natives engaged
in clearing forests, 255; proprietors
of land, 255; their language, 255 ;
as soon as a man becomes powerful
or rich he is poisoned, 257; poisons
used, 257; their equality, 257; the
poisoner, 257; how they measure time,
258; their manner of trading, 259.
Emin Pasha, 209.
Expedition, to explore region lying between
Tana and Juba Rivers.
C h a p t e r I. — Expedition of Count
Teleki and Lieutenant von Hohnel, 3;
route decided upon, 3; to ascend
the River Tana, 4; personnel of cara-
van, 5; beasts of burden for transportation
of goods, 5; purchase of
stores in London and Vienna, 6; seven
Somali engaged for care of beasts of
burden, 6; twelve Soudanese soldiers
engaged, 6; intelligence of porters, 6;
difficulties in finding porters at Zanzibar,
7; engaged Somali at Aden, 7;
engaged Soudanese at Massowah, 7;
kindness of Italian authorities at Massowah,
7; engagement of one hundred
and thirty porters, 8; wages paid to
porters, 8; headman of porters, 9;
town life not suited to natives, 10; first
camp at Mkonumbi, 11; at Mkonumbi, i
12; assistance of Teide and Denhardt,
16; engagement of boatmen and
canoes for river column, 16; Sadi,
captain of the fleet, 17; camp at
Mkonumbi, 18; uniform and firearms
of men, 21; Soudanese armed
with Mannlicher repeating rifles, 21;
the Soudanese, 21; uniform of Soudanese,
21; Somali men most useful, 26;
arrival of Lieutenant von Hohnel with
camels at Kismayu, 26; Jama Yusef
warns the chiefs at Kismayu against
expedition, 27; instructing natives in
use of rifle, 27; shooting at target, 28;
a day’s work in camp at Mkonumbi,
28; danger of small-pox, 29; preparations
for departure from Mkonumbi,
30; visit of Arab governor to camp,
33; porters carry eighty pounds, 33;
retrievers and fox-terrier, 34; drilling
men loading and unloading camels
and donkeys, 34; caravan breaks
camp at Mkonumbi, 35; joy of native
porters at departure for interior, 35;
farewell visit of governor of Lamoo, 35;
order of marching, 36; reach camping-
place, 36; trouble with pack animals,
36; at Merifano, 38; arrival at the
Tana, 39.
C h a p t e r II. — Expedition, trading
with the Pbkomo, 40 > load of ammu- !
nition missing, 41; march from Mare-
fano to Kinekombe, 41; appearance
of the country, 42; caravan as seen
on the march, 42; guides poorly informed,
43; encampment on banks of
Tana, 43; opposite the village of Kinekombe,
44; in camp at Kinekombe,
45 ; deserters, 46; crosses the Tana,
47 5 Massa, 48; men raid a plantation,
49; punishment of men and
stolefii property restored, 49; inarch
to Dukuli, 49; suffers from heat, 49;
guides desert, 50; cutting road through
tangled undergrowth, 50; search for
water, 50; death of dogs, 51; camp
at Tuni, 52; difficulties in purchasing
food, 52; loss of nine men and two
valuable loads by desertion, 57; departure
from Tuni, 57; deserters to be
shot, 58; deserter shot by Balook
Bashi, 58; cuts a way through the
bush to the river, 62; attempt to cut a
road to Malkakofira, 63; finds a storehouse
with 3000 ears of Indian corn,
64; attempt to force a way along the
river, 64; harassed by thick undergrowth,
65; leave behind the impenetrable
bush, 66; finding of the canoes
with provisions, 67; march to Tulu
Kuleso, 67; visit of Galla chief, 68;
endeavour to get information concerning
the Rendile, 69; ferried over the
stream, 70; canoes returned to the
coast, 70.
C h a p t e r III.— Expedition, changed
appearance of the country, 82; native
zeriba deserted, 82; first sight
of the Kenya, 83; Soudanese make
bad shikaris, 84; hilly country, 84;
arrive at the Mackenzie River, 85;
follow the Mackenzie River, 91; view
of range of mountains, 92; beautiful
aspect of the country, 95; caravan
charged by rhinoceros, 96; survey
of the surrounding country,
mountains and forests, 97; build a
zeriba, 98; natives at work, 100; native
men and women chopping down