Tana river, 3, navigable, 4, _ up to
Korokoro, 331, current in, 331,
339, 344, bar, 331, mouth 408
and valley, 12, 207, jute culture,
236, 648, timber of, 298, exploring
expedition along, 3ioi
314, aspect of, 322, 323, lakes
near, 324-328 ; forest near, 328 ;
course, winding, 329, 331; Mr.
Bird-Thompson’s notes on, 330-
338; connected with the Ozi,
331, 339> 3S2; inhabitants of
shores, 332, 333, floods, 334;
elephants along, 336 > islands in,
337 ; an affluent of, 34° > 34®>
360, 367, 451
Tanga Island, 5
Tangave, 401, 403, 4°4
Tea, enjoyment of, 179, 200
Tea growing at Mbweni, etc., 545,
548; over-production generally, 628
Telegraph wire at Kilifi Bay, 146
Telephone, a primitive, 77
Tembo, or Tembo la asali {see Toddy),
its effects as an intoxicant, 285, a
substitute, 300, made from honey,
Tem33p5erature, see Meteorology
Terms offered by B. E. A. Co. to the
Watoro, 201 ,
Thackeray, Miss, and Sir John Kirks
garden at Mbweni, 73°
Thompson, Bird-, his notes on the
’ exploration of the Tana river, 33,° !
at Witu, 346; 35°, 351, g°es Wlth
, author to the Utwani forest, 354,
355, and to Kipini, 358, farewell to,
Tiede’ Herr, cotton plantations of, at
Lamu, 364, 318
Timber (see Bonties, also Silky oak),
floats, 225, uses, 225, 298, 331; that
of white-stemmed trees unused, 352 ;
of jack trees, 567
Time, native incapacity for realizing,
202
Tinnevelly, labourers from, for East
Africa, 209
Tobacco[Nicotiana ¡Sgf 13, at Melindi,
15,16, foreign, to be introduced,
41 ; native, 48, 63; suitability
of soil for, 48, 69; in the Giryama
district, 92, 94, 97, I2°> I27>
136, 138; of the Watoro, 123,
137, at Takaungu, 42, at Sing-
wia, 162 ; on the Sabaki river,
196, Indian labour required for,
209; 213, experimental culture
proposed, 272 ; 318, started
by Germans, 352, 355, 36°,
their experiences, 418; native
grown, 433, at Itembe- and
Patta, 439, 466, 475 5 used by
the Wa-Polcomo, 335, 338
in Zanzibar, in the Waliadinu
country, 54°, 54U 573
of B. E. A. Co., reports on, 651 ;
from the Sabaki river, 652 ;
report on the Indian tobacco
industry, 652, on tobacco from
Borneo, etc., 653
Toddy, or temba, sources and uses,
3, 5, 1 slaves’ allowance, 31 ; 41,
from the dum palm, 47, 120, from
coco-nuts, 59, 126, sugar made from,
India, 214; its effects, used after
snalce-handling, .268 ; 285, 354, 384,
toddy of Siyu, 386, 388 ; 432, used
to make bread, 472 ; not made at
Kokotoni, 524 ; its uses and names
in Zanzibar, 565
Tomatoes {Lycopersicum eseulenlum),
136, 162, 332, in Zanzibar, etc., 54°,
547, 573 . . 9 Tondo, a Bajoni village, 432
Topi, or Senegal antelope {Alcephalus
senegalensis), 298, 299, 3°3, 4°2
Tost, Herr, his cotton - plantations at
Kipini, 359-363, cost,'etc., 364, 365,
368 ; his tobacco, 360
Totems, 106
Toyo Wabakulo, Giryama chief, interested
in experimental cultivation,
259, 274
Traces of former inhabitants {see Portuguese),
443 _
Track of th.e cattle: disease, 348
Travancore, coco-nut cultivation, 214,
irrigation of, 225
Treatment of natives, 242, 467, 502
Trees in relation to rainfall, 511, 512
Trees and plants among the Wa-Gir-
yama, 617
Trees suited to plant with cloves {see
Coco-nuts and Mangoes), 733
Tribes ofB. E. A., 516, 615
Trichinopoly districts, labour in, 209
Trinidad, banana fibre of, its value,
571 ; climate, etc., similar to that of
Zanzibar, 576, rainfall and temperature
of, 579 . .
Tsetse-fly {Glossina morsitans) {see
Ganda fly) and its congeners, localities
infested by, 355-357, animals
proof against, 356, effect on others,
357, remedial treatment, 357 5 animals
partly immune, 358; 434
Tucker, Rt. Rev. A., D.D., Bishop of
Uganda, 285, starts for Uganda, 286
Tula, Watiku village on island, 466
Tumbattu Island, .alleged abode of
wizards, 522
Tundukwa fruit, indigenous, 395
Tundvva village, 384
Turmeric (Cuvcuvia longa). in Zanzibar
574
Turtle, 86
Twining, Lieut., R.E., of the Railway
Survey, 199 •
Tzavo, affluent of the Sabaki, 195
U
UCHI-M E AD , 109
Uganda, ^ 174, 200, 285, fighting in,
286, Bishop Tucker starts for, 286,
Nubians from, 295, porters of, 300,
Mr. Berkeley goes to, 305, cattle
disease in, 348, tsetse-fly in 355,
‘ after-rains ’ in, 510, murder of
Bishop Hannington near, 605; produce,
report on samples, 653, report
on coffee from, 654 ; meteorological
observations (see also Victoria Ny-
anza), 679
U-Giryama, see Giryama country
U-kamba country, Lugard’s stockades
in, 121; cattle disease in, 348
Ukanga, village, 368, 407, 408
Ulcers, 43, 54
Uledi, 42
Umba river, 4
‘ Umbage,’ or open spaces in Pemba
Island, 598
‘ Umbwa Amitoni, ’ native name for wild
dogs {q. v. )^ 412
‘ Unga ’ {see Maize), 185, 193
Unga village, 377
Universities Mission, its inheritance of
the Mbweni experimental garden, 730
Unyoro, cattle disease in, 348
Uplands cot Jon, experimented with,
361, 362, 363
Utani plantation, 604
Utwani the india-rubber forest, 350,
t 35U 352, 355: tsetse-fly of, 346, 358
-Uwanga,’ native name for wild arrowroot,
488, 548
Uyambu village, 281
V
V a a s , Bajoni village, 125, 427
Vanilla, experimental culture of, 255, '
at Mbweni, 545, on Pemba Island’
suited to soil, 583, 595, 6091 wild,
583, 601 ; chiefly an aerial feeder, 602
Various samples (of produce) brought
home by the Mombasa-Uganda Railway
Survey, and reported on, 653
Vegetable-marrow in Zanzibar, 548
Vegetables of the coast-lands, 64; of
Zanzibar, 548
Vegetation of the district explored,
coast, 2, inland, 3, upland, 4
Vegetation and sterility, areas of, in
Zanzibar, 509, luxuriance of, 515,
near Kokotoni, 528, and in Pemba
Island, 589
Victoria Nyanza (lake), 174 • variation
in its level, tables of, 670, 675, 676
Vine, poor yield of, in Zanzibar, 547
„Viroboto, or Hyderabad soldiers, 360
Voi river, 282
Vundene, 431, 432, water of, 434
W
W a a n d a . or Wangwa, small barren
Stretches in Zanzibar, 509, aspect of)
527, cultivation and nature of ground’
54P, 543; Wangwa a Dunga, 1:42,
Kitowoni, 540, 541
Waboni district, 12, 478, 479, tribe,
appearance and occupations, 3-35,
336, 337: marriage customs, ornaments,
drinks and weapons, 337,
338 ? also dress 481; their cultivation,
398, said not to exist, 423, 486, fruit
liked by, 425, trade with Rubu, 435 ■
shauri with, 451, gifts to head-man,
452, he brings his people, 481, and a
guide, 482, 484, present to, 483; road,
485 ; in fear of the Watiku, 486,495,
whom they serve, 489, limits of
their wanderings, 487, their villages,
489. 490, 4 9 7 ; in dread of Fumo
Omari, 491, 495 • the guide, 494, a
malingerer, 496, fresh guides, 407
paid off, 499
Wacho, 99
Wachoni tribe, 162 ; are friendly, 180
Wa-Digo tribe, see Digo
Wa-Druma, slaves of the Watiku, 487
Wages, of askaris, 87, of labourers,
27, 54, 91, of porters, high, 34
44, 71, 87, 184, 185, of overseers,
etc., 41, 42, paid by Tost, 363; to
thenaossa, of dhow, to Port Dumford,
4 3 9 ; in Zanzibar and Pemba, 524 •
paid under Mr. Fraser, at Kokotoni’
522 ; in clove culture at Zanzibar,
559, in Pemba, 606, 607
Wa-Gibana tribe, 288
Wahadinu, or aborigines of Zanzibar,
510, or freed slaves, 525, locale of’
and characteristics, 539, their cultivaw
“ ,0 1 1 ’ S 4 ° ’ 5 4 t ’ 5 7 3 Wahurna, decimated in consequence of
cattle disease, 348