Mountain slopes 3500 feet above the sea
level, n o .
Mountains, peaks of the General Matthews
range, 354.
Mwalim, Harhis, headman of porters,
464; headman of deserters, 450.
Mwyru, chief, 487; slave-trading centre,
488.
Native customs, blood-brotherhood, 186.
Negro in cold weather, 154.
Neumann, Mr., on an ivory-trading expedition,
491.
Ngombe, a crater, 112, 268, 341, 343-
Night march, from Kamanga, 285; in
the desert, 289.
Oryx beisa, 129.
Osman Digna, 25.
Ostrich, 129.
Patta, Island of, 15.
Peters, Dr., 3.
Photography, cameras carried on the expedition,
270.
Poisons, 257.
Pokomo, native tribe on the Tana, 16;
a kindly race, 38; bring presents to
camp, 40; their knowledge of agriculture,
44; at Massa, 48; and the Galla,
61; meeting expedition on the march
to Hameye, 202.
Portal, Sir Gerald, 7.
Porters, wages paid to, 8; burden borne by
each, eighty pounds, 33; carry burdens
on their heads, 33; afraid to go for
water owing to hippopotamuses, 85;
have little protection from the weather,
85; carry dried meat on the march, 90;
effects of meat diet, 90; death of, 131;
sick from dysentery, 150; their dread
of the Somali, 212; men excited with
Munchausen tales of the Rendile, 336;
killed by a rhinoceros, 387; demoralized
by rhinoceros charges, 388; and
the lions, 394; old men prefer slavery
to freedom, 403; prefer the Arab to
European for master, 4° 4*
Pratt, Mr. Seth A., 508.
Pumwani, 12, 16; and Jongeni, their
raids, 17.
Rain, rainy season on the banks of the
Tana, 52; changes the appearance of
camp at Hameye, 81; sickness in
camp during the rainy season, 232;
rainy season at Daitcho, 427; the
Tana not fordable at any point during
rainy season, 443.
Ramazan, interpreter to expedition, 22;
chief of Soudanese, 457.
Rendile tribe, 4; exact habitat of tribe
unknown, 4; their wealth, 4; wanderings
of, 4; tribe, 107; to be found near
Lorian, 121, 280; woman, married to
Bykender, 223; gathering of armed
natives, 292; their appearance, 294;
their craving for tobacco, 295; chiefs
visit camp, 296; never heard of Europeans,
297; never travel at night, 298;
their ornaments, 299; warriors paint
their faces, 299; war dance, 300; recovery
of camels taken by the dthom-
bon, 300; their language, 303; mutilated
in an extraordinary manner, 303;
“ we are the great Rendile tribe,” 3° 4 >
warriors visit Chanler’s camp, 306;
loathe any colour but white, 3°^J
mounted upon a horse, 311; women
of, and their costume, 312; tribe, number
about 20,ocx), 313; supposed to
possess in round numbers 80,000 camels,
313; their huts and wanderings
313; express contempt for the rifles
used by the Somali, 314; their belief
in a God, 315; are circumcised and navels
cut away, 315; polygamy in vogue,
315; their funeral ceremony, 316;
primogeniture, 316; adultery, 317;
murder, 317; theft, 317; the older men
act as judges, 317; their food, 317;
their shields and spears, 318; a chief
presides over each village, 318; strings
of beads around a man’s neck indicate
the number of men he has slain in
battle, 318; as to the origin of the
Rendile, 319; their familiarity with
Masai tongue explained, 320; their
idea of a deity, 320; their govern-
ment, 321; position of their medicine-
men, 321; their most powerful village
presided over by Lokomogul, 321; unable
to penetrate the mystery surrounding
them, 323; warriors visit
Chanler’s camp at Seran, 328; astonished
at the power of a rifle bullet,
330; spread false reports, 418; reception
of Zanzibari caravan, 426.
Rhinoceros, 129, 151; herd of, 148;
Lieutenant von Hohnel nearly killed
by> 38° J charge the caravan, 385; and
the dogs, 391.
Rifles used to slay game, 77; which rifles
best for general use, 78; letter to London
F ie ld concerning, 79; shooting
large game, 80; used in shooting hippopotamuses,
86; carried by men in
an unsatisfactory condition, 148.
Rivers having their sources at Mount
Kenya, 115.
Road from Voi to the coast, 497.
Rudolph, Lake, 1.
Sabaki River, 115.
Sadi, captain of the fleet, 17.
Saleh’s Hill, 83.
Samburu, 306; forced into semi-serfdom
to the Rendile, 316.
Samburu tribe, 281.
Sayer, camp at, 352; River, its source, 377.
Scenery, view from camp in the mountains,
h i .
Scientific travellers and sportsmen, 76.
Seran, 327; oasis in the desert, 287.
Seyd Ali, Sultan of Zanzibar, 7; news of
. his death, 401.
Shooting, walleri antelope, 70; water-
buck and antelope, 76; use of rifle in
provisioning caravan, 76; for food, 77;
Soudanese noisy enthusiasm at the
sight of game, 84; water-buck, 84;
hippopotamus, 85; rhinoceros, 92, 96;
antelope with Mannlicher, 107; rhinoceros;
shot by Lieutenant von
Hohnel, 110; herd of oryx beisa, I I I ;
herd of grantii, 111; male oryx, 114.
Sissini, 51.
Siu, Island of, 15.
Skin of oryx beisa used by Somali for
shields, h i .
Slavery in East Africa, 404.
Slaves purchased by Arabs leased out to
European travellers, 5.
Slave-trading centre at Mwyru’s, 488.
Snake, Chanler’s adventure with, 342.
Somali, 212; wanderings of Somali tribes,
4; engaged for the care of beasts of burden,
6; good knowledge of shooting,
28; attack elephant-hunters, 54; and
Soudanese, jealousy between the two
races, 74; certain beasts unlawful for
them to eat, 89; their custom to spend
the night in prayer on the eve of a
dangerous enterprise, 164; good fighting
men, 178; enemies of the Rendile,
3°3 > robbed by the natives of Daitcho,
472; their superstitious fear of strange
noises, 473; and Soudanese, discharged
at Aden, 511.
Soudanese as soldiers, 21; excellent shots,
28; dissatisfaction of, 46; attempt to
assert their independence, 74; violent
discussion over the relative merits of
rhinoceros and hippopotamus, 92;
refuse to eat meat, 108; threaten to
starve themselves unless they have
grain diet, 108; good fighting men,
178; desert the expedition, 457; deserters
taken into the service of the
Sultan of Zanzibar, 507.
Stairs, Captain, 9.
Stanley, 5.
Stephanie, Lake, 1.
Subaki, 47.
Subugo (forest), 378.
Suliman Kemenya, an ardent revolutionist,
420.
Sulphate of magnesium, ground white
with, 115.
Superstition of natives, 194.
Sururu, his character, 9; tent-boy, 9,
509; wounded by a rhinoceros, 133.