Bonde la Mwera Korokwe valley, 544
Bonde la Mziingo valley, 514, 543, 544
Books, delight of receiving, 169
Borabin or Burabin lake, 324, 330
Borassus palm (B. Jlabelliformis), distribution
of, 288, 326, 373, 375, 384 ;
in Pemba, 599
Bori harbour, 387
Borities, 01* wood of the mangrove, 81,
220, immune from white ants, 221 ;
298. 383» 384. 386, 387, 390; as
fuel, 392 ; 397, 399
Borneo, tobacco cultivation in, 652, 653
Boundaries, 4
Bourbon, clove culture in, 523, introduced
by the French, 553
Bowstring hemp (Sansevieida, sp.),
102, 229 ; notes on its uses and value,
233 ; Appendix E upon, 707
Bows and Arrows (see Arrows and
Weapons)
Bracken fern,' see Ferns
Bread-fruit (Artocarpus zncisa, L.), 547
Brickdust, red (ngeo), as money, 537
Bridges, native, 51, 117, 376; over
Mwera river, 535
Brinjal (,Solatium melongena), 546
Brisbane, salt-bush seed from, 248
Britannia, P. & O. steamier, 503
British East Africa, its fibres, 233
British East Africa ’Company,, repels
Fumo Omari, 342
British Government, 306, its responsibility
in the labour difficulty, ^46,
and duty, 551
British Museum, specimens of tsetse-fly
in, 357
Bubashi, 465
Buffaloes, 81, affected by cattle
disease, 84, 195, 299, 347, 348 ; on
the Sabaki, 127, 187, 248; Galla
method of killing, 336 ; proof against
• tsetse-fly, 356; 402, 403, 404, 476,
486, 501
Bullock-hackeries introduced, 347
Bullocks, cost, food, and qualities of
those of the coast, 213 ; in Zanzibar,
574
Bura, a Pokomo village, 330
Burabin, see Golbanti; lake, 324, 330
Buramanza hill, 456, 437, 461, 462,
465
Burkau (see also Port Durnford), 446,
village, 448, 449; delays at, 451;
country near, 452, 454, guide from,
useless, 459; return to, 460, 461.;
more delays, 462, 471 ; Wa-Galla
near, 464, their head-man, 465, 472.;
ruins near, 462, 465 ; cultivation and
villages near, 466, 467, 469, 470,
471, Fumo Omari’s influence para-.
L mount, 472 ; forest near, 407
Burt, Rev. F ., C. M. S., 90,177,178,180,
183, 243, 274, 282, 285
Bush districts, general aspect of, 81,
83, 89, 117, 126, 127, 128, 132, 167,
passim
Bwana Siri, a Bajoni hunter, 398, 399,
429. 435. 439. 441, 442, 446, useless
as a guide, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462,
469, 476, dismissed, 471, 478
ït ■'ÂCà
Cacao ( 7'heobroma, L. ) (see Madre de
Cacao), yield and suitability, 229 ;
in Zanzibar, at Mbweni, 545, 548;
576 ; Hart, on, 578 ; Morris on,
580; best ' quality from Cevlon,
57?, 58t ;
Cacti, distribution of, 4, 93, 117, 119,
126, 127, 128, 132, 133, 186, 187,
335
Calaba (Calophyllmn. calaba),, shelter-
tree, 563
Camel, the, load for, 17 ; used to drivé
■ seed mills, 63 ; cost to hire, 67
Camel-transport, .263, arrangement,
cost and food of animals, 264
Cameron, . Commander Lovett, his
remarks on wild nutmegs, 229
Camp in shamba, an offence against
Watiku customs, 476
Campbell, Capt., of H.M.S. Philomel,
304
Candelabra tree (see Euphorbia), 322,
484
Canoe-building district near Nderá,
334
Canoes, or mows, of the Wa-Pokomo,
323, 329, 340
Cape of Good Hope, cattle disease at,
347 ; distance from Zanzibar, 508.
Capital endangered by labour difficulties,
549, needed for their solution,
55°, 551
Capsicums, see Chillies and Pepper
Caravan work liked by natives, 34
Caravan, to be intercepted, .157
Caravan, personnel of, 416
Cashew nut (Anacardium occidentale),
248, 37°, 384, 547
Cassava, or Manioc (bitter kind, Manihot
utilissima, sweet kind, Manihot
aipi), distribution and. cultivation,
35, 39, 5?, 63, 88, 137, 140, 144,
147, habits resembling those of
Ceará, 228, 248, 335, 370 ; in Zanzibar,
515, 517, s i8, 519, 520, 523, 524,
525, 528, 533 ; in clove nurseries, 539,
542, 543, 548, 5S7, 57i > an exhausting
crop, 572; in Pemba, 589, cqv
• 594, 597, 603, 604, 605
Castilioa rubber (see Central American
rubber tree) ,
Castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis)
distribution, 47, little used, 64; 98
r i7, 127, 136, 137, 144; wild, 196^
229, 368, 43s ; experimental culture,
248, 272, propagation, 272; 287,
371, 383, 433 ; in Zanzibar, 548:
native names for, 618
Castor-oil seed, 272, report on, 626
Casuariria trees (Casuarina littorea),
distribution and value of, 2, 82, 83;
identical with Australian she-bak,
221 ; 458, theory as to propagation,
ri 47° ; a shelter-tree, 563
Caterpillar which attacks clove trees,
SS8; which attacks cotton. (Aletia
argillacea, Hiibn.), 638
Cattle disease, affecting game (see
Buffaloes, Deer, Giraffes, etc.),
195, 269
periodical, 23, its causes, 213, 330,
349, radius, and cure, 347,
. symptoms and effects on native
population, 344, 347, 349, one
good result, 356
Cattle, experimental herd desired, 210 ;
points of importance concerning*
210, 211 \
and the Ganda or tsetse-fly, 3^6,
-358,419,432,434
given for wives by the Wa-Galla,
: 33.8
required for draught in Zanzibar,
551
scarce, 136, 381, 449
Cattle-trade of Kionga, 437
Cayenne pepper "(ra? Chillies), sources
of,,573
Ceara rubber free (Manihot glaziot/ii),
its suitability to East Africa, 226,
227, and to West Africa, 228, 255;
- at Mbweni, 546, 548, 584; Appendix
D upon, 689, 702
.Celadon china on mosques and tombs,
443
Centipedes, 184
Central Africa, nutmeg groves in,
229
Central agricultural experimental station
proposed ( see Experimental
culture, Jelori, Mbweni, etc:), .273
Central American rubber tree (Castilioa
elastica), suitability to East
Africa, 149, 226, 227, its yield and
suitability to India, 703
Central .Giryama, 100, districts, 101
Cerbera, manghas, a shelter-tree, 563
Ceylon, agricultural example of, 208,
bullock hackeries of, suited to East
- Africa,! 347, cacao of, 579, cacao
seeds^ from, 581; murrain in, 213 ;
• Ceara rubber obtainable from, 228 ;
coco-nut culture, beetle inimical to,
■ 5^5, proverb concerning, 214; fibre
; ..plants of, Appendix E, 716 ; 'guinea
grass of, 354 ; native gardener desired
from, 272; pimento in, 582, salt
bush indigenous to, 248, siik-cotton
i ° 7, 569, silky oak of, 563 ; meteoro*
< logical observations at, 579
Chakamba lake, 359
Chaki-Chaki, 588, rainfall of, 593;
599; crop of cloves in.1891,607; coconuts
of, 608
Chameleon, in Giryama folklore, and
parallel, 107, 108
Chara, salt trade of, 33r, inhabitants
: °f, 332, 344
Charm to keep out snakes, 196
Chatturo, 332
Chemchem, source of Zanzibar Water
supply, 513
Chibeku, oil mills at, 63
Chilani stream, 288
Child-exposure, 203, 337
Chillies, or Capsicums (Capsicum
'annuum, and Capsicum frulescens),
4°, 136,’ 341,' in Zanzibar, 539,
varieties of, 540, 547, culture de-
■ clining. and why, 573, experiment
i? 1895, 574
China, pineapple fibre from, 578
China grass, see Ramie
Chinese cassia (Cinnamomum cassia,
Bl.), in Zanzibar, 548
Chiromo, fibre experiments at, 234
Ghosini Shamba, Pemba, cultivation
at, 590, 491, 606
Christian natives, 90, 98
Christmas Day diversions, 195 ; at
Mombasa, 305
Chuaka, road near, 561
Chueni, palace in Zanzibar, 514, described,
515, plantation at, 516,
possibilities of, region, 517, 524,
methods of cultivation, 518,519, 558 •
• aspect of country thence to Kokotoni,’
5,20.; suited for betel-nut culture,
567
Church Missionary Stations (see Burt,
, Edwards, Hooper) Jones, Tucker),
Frereto.wn, 285 ; Jelori, 90, 92, 98 ;
Kamlikeni, 100 ; Kisulutini, 99 \
Mwaeba’s Hill, 100 ; Rabai, water
supply at, 287; undesirable settlers
near, 271