Millet, Metamah, or Guinea corn
(,Sorghum vulgare, or Penisetum
typhoideuni) (see also Metamah and
Guinea com), distribution and cultivation
of, 57, 59, 63, 123, i43>
149, exported, 60 ; 255; 328, 332,
333. 334, 359, 363. 366, 405, 421,
432, 435, 475 1 in Zanzibar, 542, 548,
572, 641.
Mimosa, distribution of, 4, 100, 191,
31°, 314, 3t7. 335, 336, 340, 35°,
353, 374, 3?4, 387, 399, 433, 437,
452, 455, 456
Mitole, cultivation near, 333
Mitopalchi, mangrove swamps, Pemba,
599
Mission Boundary proposed, 271
Mission converts’ behaviour in face of
threatened attack, 178 ; civilizing influence
of, 98
Mission to Uganda, 304
Missionaries, see Church Missionary
Stations, Free Methodist, German
Mission, London Missionary Society,
Swedish, etc,
‘ Miwale,’ Swahili name fora palm found
in Pemba, 599
Mixed cultivation in clove shambas, 557
‘Mjugu mawe ’ (Bambarra ground-nut),
543 ; and ‘Mjugu nyassa,’ 543, 572
M’Kanumhi, 351, 375, water supply,
376
M’Kauoni, Denhardts plantations at,
417, 419, 420; 500
Mkorogo Hill, cultivation of, 542, 543
M’Kumbi, 370, 371, river, 373
M’Lango Kipungani, estuary, 378
M’lango la Siyu, hill, 307
Mlanji, experiments with fibres at, 234
M’lengo-Baya, runaway-slave settlement,
118,119, 169, 171,184, caravan
route to, 318
Mnagana, a variety of metamah, 477
M’Narani shamba, 145, B. E. A. Co.’s
custom house at, 251
Mndene, Watiku village,- 431, 432,
water of, 434
‘ Moaa,’ native spade, 556
Model farm, note as to labour required
and cost of wage, 208
Mohamed, head-man of Gongoni, 73,
74, 78
Mohamed Bafaro, one of Fumo Oman s
leaders, 493
Mohamed bin Hussein, an Indian,
made overseer at Magarini, 176, 237,
results of his work, 238 ; his belief
in witchcraft, 243, 244
Mohamed bin Jumah bin Said, an Arab
cultivator in Pemba, 594, 595, 597,
1 599, 600, 601, on slave versus free
labour, 602, 607, 610 ; 607, 608,
611
Mohamed-bin-Saif, brother of Mze
Saif, 433, his home, 436, 438, he
makes difficulties, 439, 440, 441, 442,
465, 466, 471, 475, 479, and the
shambas, 476, 477, 478, 479, 482,
483, 484, 487, dubious followers, 493
Mohamed bin Saif, secretary to Sultan
of Zanzibar, his property at Dunga,
538, on scarcity of labour, 539
Mohamed bin Saif Drumiki, overseer
of the Sultan’s plantations at Mdo,
534, on clove culture, 535
Mohamedanism [see Islamism)
Moinkanda village, 376
Moira district, 586
Moko plantain, in Zanzibar, 571
Moluccas, the habitat of the clove, 553,
methods of clove culture in, 557, an(f
of curing, 559, 562; 732, 733, 734
Mombasa Harbour, 1, and harbours, 5,
6, 7, 12, 13
Island, 6, rainfall at, 7> tabu-
lated, 9, temperature and humidity,
10, other meteorological
observations, 658, 665 ; timber
trade, 87 153, 225,' seat of administration,
86; 131, 195, 200,
242, 250, 252, Cearâ rubber tree
at, 225, cotton at, its value, 259,
distance from Magarini,' 268,
Somali children from, 273, 281,
return of the Survey, 282, 286 ;
' Bishop Tucker at, 285, 286,
287 ; 292, Nubians from, 295,
Christmas at, 305 ; 308, 309,
378, 379, 383 5 the Tana river
the main route td Lamu, 331;
351, within the tsetse district,
355 ; country to the south of, to
be explored, 406; 407 ; start
for, 412, lion hunt near, 415 ;
463, 501, 505, witchcraft in,
600 ; suitable spot for experimental
culture, 730
Mombasa tribes of Portuguese descent,
114
Mombrui (see All bin Salim, the
Liwali), 4, 17, 74, low hills of, 77,
84; 81, distance to Arbagundi, 166,
trial of Ali bin Jumah at, 176; 214,
222, transport contracts, 264, the
Liwali’s proposed school for, 300 ;
310, surface water-at, good, 313;
318, distance from Golbanti, 322
Monakombe river, 521
Money (see Dollar uumiRupee, etc. ), Galla
substitutes, 337
Mongichi, meteorological observations
at, 675
Mongoni creek, 401, 402, 403, 500
Monkeys, 78, 8r, liking for 1 Matongo’
fruit, 304 5
Month, the Giryama, 11 j
Moon, the, in Giryama folklore, in
Moorva fibre, see Sansevierid zeylamca
Morris, D. (Assistant Director, Kew)
on cocoa culture in Jamaica, 580
on commercial fibres, 578, 719, 0n
rubber plants, 228, on sugar culture
in Jamaica, 570
Mosques, arch and ornaments of, 442
Mosquitoes, 22, 36, 82, 170, a vigor-
M°us brf®d’ 1 ?2, 299, 304, 318, 328
Mote, a Wasania head-man, 155
Mows, or canoes of the Wa-Pokomo,
323 ’
?ii£ela’ viI!aSe the Bajoni, 422
M Pekatoni lake, 350, 357, 368, and
^village, 369, 387, 407
M pengo, native name for ebony (q.
M Shaka, rubber of, 149, 130; 244
distance from Melindi, 247; 281*
bad water of, 292 ; 412 >
M’Soma, head-man of the Watoro
122, 123, 124, 130,- 184, 185, 193,
195, 200, spokesman as to terms
tor complete freedom, 201, his good
conduct, 202, 241, 242
M sufi,’ see Silk-cotton
M Swakini, village, 432'
Mtaa trees, 370
* M’Tanga neussi.’ a black friable loam
299 -
M’Tanganyiko, port, 99, water supply,
13°, trade of, 138, Wanika settlers
at, ' 39, 145 , vegetation near, 139,
suited to castor-oil plants, 229’
newly a’cquired by the B. E.'A.'.Co.,
244> 249, accessible to dhows, 250,
288 ; rivers near, 291
M’Tapa, shambas at, 412
Mto Mombamba stream, 345
Mto Tana, askari station on the Tana
331
M’Tomoni cum Wegne Akombo,
shambas, 340, 341
M’Tondoa, 146, 147, 149, 244, country
near, 248, 281 ; 291, 421
Mtori, north of the Tana river, 221
M’Toto lake, 324
Mugakha Lizard, the, and his message,
Muhoni river, 103
Muicarabu, 377
Muini Ku Wadunga, last ‘ Sultan ’ of
Dunga, 542
Mulali, 350
Mulberp' tree, Indian small variety in
Zanzibar, 547, 568
‘ Mulungo,’ name for God in Giryama
103;; ’
Mumia’s (in Kavirondo), meteorolo-
gical observations at, 670, 675
Mundane Ililis, 391, 398, 399, 422,
425,427,47L 479, 480,484, 488,490
Mundane Range, see Mundane Hills
Munga tree, 326
Murrain (see also Cattle disease),
213
Musama Lake, near Tana river, 329
Muscat, 60, donkeys of, and their
price, 264 ; slave trade at, 157
Mwaeba’s Hill, C. M. S. station at,
100
Mwaiba, distance from M’Tanganiko,
291
Mwana Island, residents and market
at, 522
Mwangudo river and district, 102, 102
M Wekundu, 479
Mwera river, bridged, 535, 544, district,
and plantations, 543, underground
course of waters, 544, alleged
nutmeg culture at, 608
Mwera K orok we river, 544
Mweru lake, tsetse-fly of, 357
Mwina, plantations of, 222
‘ Myhi | fruit, 395
Mze Saif, of Patta, 380, 382, 389, 330,
391, 392» interview with, 393 ; 397,
40°, letters of introduction from,
423, 441, 446, 449, 451 ; he lends a
P udfe> 429, 430, 43', 433, 436, 463,
limits of his authority, 466, 470, 471,
482
Mzinga Mzinga river, 520, 521
Mzingam, uncultivated plain, 537, 542
N
N a k o a A m b a r i , 41, shoots tree cobras,
173, skilful with snakes, 267, 268
Nakoa Feruzi, 41, 53, and the rain-
gauge, 255
Nakoa Tofike, 70
Nakoas, or head-men of slaves, 31
accused of witchcraft, 243, 244 ’
Narrow escape of author, 178
Nasur bin Suliman, his shambas, 33,
35, 69, inspected, 70; 72, 74,
sale of his goods, 85, 86, his wife’s
destitution, 175, experimental cultivation
on his shambas, 259
Nasur M’Baraki Jubri, elephant hunter
and guide, 471, 476, 488, 479, 4S2, 400