Sidembe village, its bad water, 383,
Island, 390
Sierra Leone, ginger culture in, 583
Sikoko wache Amadi, battle-field in
Patta, 386
Silk-cotton tree, called ‘ Kapok’ and
* Msufi * (Eriodendron anfractuosum),
distribution, culture and uses,
64, 76, 87, 154, 220, 366, 369, 403,
uses and export, 568, 569 ; 590, 598,
report on, 648 ; in Zanzibar, 548, in
Pemba 583
Silky oak of Queensland (GrewIlea ro-
busta), a shelter tree, 563, 580
Simambaya Sendeni village, 432, Island,
434
Simba or ‘ Lion’ Hill, 317
‘ Sinjba,’ an English officer killed at
Kiongwana, 440
Simmonds, on coco-nut oil, 260
Sim-sim or sesame (Sesamu?n indicum),
called also Gingelly, distribution, cultivation
and uses, 15, 18, 50, 51, 61, .
63, 84, 87, 88, 140, 143, 144, 147,
149, 361, 36,6, 368, 370, 377, 391,
395. 397. 405, 42?, 435. 436. 466,
how sown, 478; in Zanzibar, etc.,
548, 572 ; report on, 651
Singwaia, 161, 162
Sisal hemp (Agave rigida) (see Fibre-
producing plants), distribution, cultivation
and uses, 234, prices for, 235,
236, 576, 721, 722, its true home,
577, article on, 577, 578; Appendix
-E., 719
Sisal hemp, varieties of Agave which
produce it (Agave rigida, var. longi-
folia, or Sacqui, Agave rigida, var.
Sisalana, or Yaxqui), notes on, 719
Sivatoni village, 371
Siyu, chief town of Patta Island, 383, -
385, toddy of, 386 ; 387, 388, 389,
natives hostile, 393 ; grain trade of,
420; 421, 422
Skins from B. E. A.,-report on, 651
Slaves and Slavery (see Imported labour
and Labour question), in East
Africa, cost of, marriage and
work, 28, women, 31, privileges
of, 31, 32, rights, possessions and
treatment, 32; hired out, how
paid, 363, 521, 534; at Chueni,
516, 517
anti-slavery decree of Sultan, 22
as bird-scarers, 475, 479
freed by B. E. A. government, 21,
difficulties incurred thereby, 207,
342> 539. 543. 549! privileges of,
in Zanzibar, 525, and Pemba,
labour of, in Pemba, 601, 602,
villages of, 603; 604, scarce,
606, costly, 610
of Arabs, licence allowed to, 278,
279 ; of the Wa-Galla, 465 ; of
the Watiku, 486, 487
price given for, 28, by Gallas,
131; in Pemba and Zanzibar,;
610, 611
raiding of, by the Somalis, 334,
methods, 335
runaway, called Watoro (q.v.),,
119 ; 121, theirroute to Makon-
geni, 158 ; Arab hunt for, 195;
slave-trading by, 131
runaway, settlements for, see
Settlements, supra
trading in, by mixed caravans, 157, |
road followed, 158 ; by runaway
slaves, 131 ; in Zanzibar and;
Pemba, 610
Small-pox, 242
Smith, J. Bell-, B. E. A. Co.’s officer'
at Melindi, 13, 17, 22, 24, 27, 28, 35,
36, 42> 54. 69, transferred to Taka-
ungu, 86; 123, at M’Narani, 146, 252
Snakes, poisonous, at Kilifi, 146, tree
cobra, or mamba (Dendraspis), at
Arbagundi, 172, in the Christmas
• camp, 195, 196; at the shambas,
head used for ‘ medicine,’ 267;
pythons and puff-adders, 267) 268;
near Mundane Hills, 488
Snake-bite, 42, 268
Snake-handling by Nakoa Ambari, 267,
268
Sneezing, Giryama custom, 113
Sriuff and hidden slaves, 610
Sohari cloth, 491
Somaliland, 12, source of the cattle
disease, 23 ; tsetse-fly of, 357, 487
Somalis: children resent being called
Galla, 273 ; their attack on Golbanti,
323> resisted by the Ndera men, 333,
slave-raiding by, 334; are feared by
the Wa-Galla, 398,-465; 403, trade
in goats, 432, and cattle, 437 ; 449,
route followed, 463 ; their curiosity,
438; hostility to author’s expedition,
446, the reason, 452 ,
Sop, sour and sweet, in Zanzibar, 547
Sorghum vulgare, see Guinea com,
Metamah, and Millet
Soudan, cattle disease likely to extend
to, 348
Spade, or ‘ moaa,’ used in Zanzibar, 556
Spicfc trees of Zanzibar, 548, and those
suited to, 583
Spirits, belief in, in Giryama, 104, 105,
106
gtyudGcer JaDour, 539
Stall-feeding for stock, desirable, 210
- d c ^ S ^ ’ P ^ l e causes
Stock, a note on, 210
btockades at Marereni, 83 ; W a rd ’s
1V6 rfi 121 70 \ the second, 8§, 174’ , 183, road open to, 184, 18? •
191 ’ elePhants near,’
22120O) 203; height above
Stones, flat, with circular piercings on
Buramanza hill, 457 . s on
Straus- Settlements, clove culture in,,
Suf,ar’ § i ,not manufactured locally,
, 63, made from toddy, in India, 214
IcudlthivvatTio n of, 21, 28, 34,o 3ff6ic, in6a2r uomn )a,
small scale, 220, of the Pokomo, 333,'
335 J cultivation and mills in Zanzibar,
516-519, atKokotoni, 512, 522
near Mh S69’- “ ear Md°’ S34’ 536;
town ^ nver’ 544, in Zanzibar
K SreH, 569h, 5S7° jb m PJ°aSmitaioicna , o<f70
Suggestions for developing the coast-
lands and the Sabaki district, 204-236
Suhman bin Abdulla, the expropriated
owner of the Magarini shambas, his
property, 14, 18, and cultivation, 20
If m—ental, 2cIo’tJton3 ’c u^ltiv a3t2io, n3, 5,3 4e, x2p3e6ri ’-•
fist of shambas, 36, 42, '50, 64, 69;’
05, ms ex-slaves, 122, called ‘ bad’
244 > his destitute sister, 17c •. his
expressed hatred of Europeans, 495
Suhman bin Kalfan, hisunfmished
house, 525
Sultan. or Sheik bin Mohamed bin
Nasur, land-owner in Pemba, 589,603
Sultan Khalifa, 335 0 y’ 4
Sultan Seyyid Ali, his clove plantation,
Sultan Seyyid Said, and his sons, 534,
the introducer of rambutan, 548
Sultan of Witu, the maker of the Bela-
zom canal, 331
the rebel, see Fumo Omari-
Sultans of Zanzibar (see also Seyyid
AU bin Said and Seyd Barghash),
Sumatra, clove culture in, 563, nutmeg
culture, 581, silk-cotton culLefs^Q
tobacCo culture, 48, 652, 653, to!
bacco seed from, 410
owamn cnaractenstics, 156 328
clergyman, a, 287
of the coast, 10, n , their New
! I4’o their agricultural
methods, 18, 129, porters, 185
cultivation largely dependent on
slave labour, 207, 342; usual
products, 523
folklore belief in witchcraft, 243
of Itembe, 391 ’
justice distrusted by Wa-Giryama
202 f
a, killed by crocodiles in Kilifi, 304
language, its prefixes, 85, origin
m “ 3> and Watiki dialect of, 481
method of rice culture, 478
method of trading, 332
oppression of the Wa-Pokomo
333, arrested by the advent of
the B. E. A. Co., 342
face, its constituents, 509, not to
be depended on as a source of
labourers 549; SSo> sub.di.
visions of, 616
vanity, an instance of, 242
villages on Lake Bére Bére 404
weapons, 382
year, 113
Swedish mission burnt at Kulesa, 333
Sweet limes, 40, in Zanzibar, 568
Sweet potatoes (Batatas Eduks, Lam )
64, 92, 94, 136, 1 4 4 , 332-
516, 517, 520, 523 ; in Zanzibar 548
Symptoms of the cattle disease, 349^
Takta coffee culture started at, 730
tribe and language, 101
I 69’ 86’ 87’ ibuiney to,
aanndd npnoVh?te ne4s°s’ o“f prleoosp“lye,, c1o4n1f idseintucae,
tion, 141, water supply’ f t ,
population and surrounding, r f ’
43, I44, products and prices, 143’
trade area, 144, lawless folk, 1 4 4 ’
wild cotton at, 147, 200, 201; 202
development of area between this
¡ f a l Melindi considered, 204,
7, rubber of, 227, castor-oil, 229 -
249, 287, 318, 412 ’ 9 ’
amannd trees (Tamarindus indicus),
distribution of, 120, 121, 188 384
DodorifS4 treeS reSembIing’ M
Tamul labourers for East Africa desir-
a Die, 208, 209