INDEX

Accra, 286, 303, 307

Agbandi, 62; native giant at, 63

Aledjo, beauty and healthfulness of, 85; mission station at, 86; grass fires at, 87, 281

Alfred, our interpreter, 54, 102, 103, 169, 244, 309

Anâ, native village, 57, 60

Antelope, 134, 151, 152, 153

Arrows, poisoned, European shot by, 142

Ashantis, 159

Asmani, Schomburgk's personal "boy," 179, 229, 309

Atakpame, 28; Catholic Mission at, 50, 63, 186, 275, 284, 286, 295

Audassi, 66

Babies, native, 270

Bafilo, the bairam festival at, 90; cotton industry at, 92; artificial "pearls" made at, 95, 251

Banjeli, 237; beautiful situation of, 238; arrival of mail at, 241; a pig purchased at, 242; punishing carriers at, 244; chief of, 245, 249, 250

Bapure, 112

Bassari, 239, 241; iron market at, 247, 250, 251; station house at, 252; Mr. Muckè, Sub-District Commissioner of, 252; our house at, 253; I entertain the wives of the Mallam Mohammed at, 257, 291

Bats, a plague of, 139; as food, 225

Beapabe, native town, 251

Bedford, Duke of, 19

Beer, native, 111

Bees, wild, 259

Beetles, beautiful, 240

Berger, Dr., 57 et seq.

Betrothals in infancy of native girls, 264

Birds, valuable feather-bearing in Northern Togo, 149, 150, 154

Bremen, S.M.S., 26

Buffalo, 20

Butter, native, 139

Bwete, native village, 145

Cameras, damage to by heat, 136

Cameroons, wireless station in, 299

Chameleons, 209

"Chief's mail," 184, 185

Childbirth amongst native women, 268

Children, native, government education of, 290

Cinema acting, on board ship, 21; in Madeira, 24; at Kamina, 33; at Paratau, 77; at Lome, 305

Cooking, native, 275

Corn-bins, curious, at Tschopowa, 224

Cotton industry, native, 92 et seq.

Cowrie shells, as money, 97

Crocodiles, 145, 189, 190

Dagomba tribe, 214

Dahomeyans, 159

Death, native ceremonies at, 261, 262

Dedaure, Mallam of, 288

Dehn, Mr. and Mrs., 291

Djabotaure, 64; adventure at, 65, 293

Djereponi, 208

Elegante Welt, German fashion paper, 241

Eleonore Woermamm, mail steamer, 310, 311

Elephants, 18; old spoor of, 121

Fahnenfeld, Baron Codelli von, 29, 31, 36, 47, 196, 292, 296; Baroness Codelli, 297, 301, 302

Fetish groves, hidden practices in, 273

Fever, 36, 101, 108

Films, industrial, at Bafilo, 92 et seq., 97; ethnological, at Mangu, 136; travel, at Sumbu, 191; historical, at Mangu, 200, 201; Konkombwa, 218; hippopotami, 225; iron industry, at Banjeli, 246; at Bassari, 257

Fishing by natives in the Oti, 135

Francolin, a kind of partridge, 134, 149

Fulani, 137, 156, 159, 180

Fulbe, 137

Gerin-kuka, boisterous welcome to by the Konkombwa people, 115; rest-house at, 117; native "songu" at, 118

Gourma, 138, 141, 142, 168, 176

Grass fires, 143, 146

Grey, Hon. W. H., 286

Grouse, remarkable incident in connection with, 206

Gruner, Dr., 140

Hagenbeck, Carl, 19

Hammock travelling, delights of in the African bush, 61; being "sea-sick" in one, 66, 185

Harmattan, 76; at Mangu, 131; a meteorological mystery, 198

Hausas, 202, 203, 219, 225

"Hausa load," 243

Henny Woermamm, mail steamer, 21, 22, 26

Hippopotami, 123, 146, 185 et seq., 225

—— pygmy, 19, 185

Hirschfeld, Captain von, 125, 127, 128, 132, 133, 137, 140, 143, 155, 199, 203, 205, 243, 253

Hodgson, James, our camera man, 20, 50, 52, 97, 99, 100, 101, 119, 123, 124, 135, 136, 148, 150, 152, 156, 172, 174, 187, 189, 203, 206, 216, 225, 233, 237, 250, 256, 305

Horses, our, waiting for us near Sokode, 67; am badly kicked by my favourite one, 83; accident to one, 109, 195, 286

Hyena trapped, 138

Ibubu, native village, 233; "Roman Fort" at, 233; trouble with carriers at, 235; arrest of chief of, 239; woman carriers from, 239, 243

Insect pests, 38, 134

Iron industry, native, at Banjeli, 245 et seq.

Jewellery, native, 260

Johnston, Sir Harry, 248

Joyce, Atho, Mr., 248

Kabre Mountains, 137

Kabrischika, native boy, saves my baggage from fire, 298

Kabu, welcome hospitality at, 111

Kabures, native tribe, 63

Kaiser's birthday, 203

Kamaa, river, 253, 280

Kamina, wireless station at, 29; my house at, 29; life at, 30 et seq.; an adventure, 48, 196, 292, 295, 296 et seq.

Kara, river, 122

Katscha, river, 250, 251

Kersting, Dr., 70, 85, 90, 234, 252, 254

Kola nuts, 219, 259

Konkombwa, first contact with, 112; boisterous welcome by at Gerin-Kuka, 115, 138, 147, 211 et seq.; dancers, 217 et seq., 231, 234, 236, 239, 247

Kuepers, Mr., Government schoolmaster at Sokode, 68, 278, 286, 288, 289, 292

Kugnau, native village, 227; incident with the Konkombwa at, 231, 232, 237

Lange, Mr., engineer, 57

Las Palmas, 25, 310

Leopard, adventure with a, 100, 194, 196

Lizards, 38, 194

Lome, capital and port of Togo, 21, 27, 184, 253, 284, 303, 304, 305, 307

Madeira, 21 et seq., 196

Magu, native village, 147, 197

Malfakasa, 280; the outlaw of, 283

Mallam Mohammed, of Bassari, 257; his house, 258; his wives, 259

Mangu, northernmost Government station in Togo, 125; Mohammedans in, 130; timber plantations in, 130; new station house at, 131; climate of, 131; Christmas at, 133; New Year's Eve festivities at, 133; trees destroyed by beetles at, 134; prisoners, native, at, 137; stone quarry at, 137; plague of bats at, 139; native soldiers at, 199, 200; filming Togo history at, 201, 202; celebrating the Kaiser's birthday at, 203; departure from, 205, 251, 278

Manns, Lieutenant, 306

Marabou stork, discovered in Togo by Major Schomburgk, 154; feathers, 154

Marriage customs, native, 264

Mashukulumbwe people, anecdote concerning, 115

Massow House, at Bassari, 252

Mecklenburg, Duke of, Governor of Togo, 28, 51, 141, 231, 232, 305, 306, 309

Messa, our cook, supposed desertion of, 53 et seq.; returns with a young wife, 55; he annexes our dining-table, 84, 160, 169, 180, 230, 277, 278, 309

Monkey, our pet, 146, 243, 303

Monkeys, wild, 47; shooting a "dog" monkey, 96

Mosquitoes, 31, 122, 144, 229

Moving Picture Sales Agency, London, 184, 286

Muckè, Mr., of Bassari, 252, 254, 255, 256, 292

Natives, as "supers," 33; averse to being photographed, 33; views of on matrimony, &c., 42 et seq.; perversity of, 51; as carriers, 112; wars, inter-tribal, 200; as handicraftsmen, 247; school for at Bassari, 258; at Sokode, 288

Najo, native village, 197

Nambiri, 209; village chief of, 213, 249

Nebel, Mr. Kay H., 67; accident while acting with, 77, 88, 89; leaves for Europe, 91

Njamassila, 60

"Odd Man Out," dramatic film, 21, 24, 91, 92

Ostriches, 203, 234, 246, 303

Oti, river, 122, 126, 134, 141, 144, 147, 148, 151, 156, 185, 188, 192, 227, 233

"Outlaw of the Sudu Mountains," dramatic film, 86; accident while rehearsing in, 88

Oysters, fresh-water, in the Oti River, 192

"Palaver," a woman, 101 et seq.; a man, 104; at Unyogo, over a soldier's wife, 207

Panscheli, native village, 142, 185, 186, 188

Paratau, 69; native market at, 73; children at, 74; an unhealthy camp, 76, 278, 282, 291

Parpart, Herr von, 261, 285, 291

Plantations, timber, near Mangu, 130; near Bassari, 254

Poisons, kinds used by natives on their arrows, 142

Polygamy, 267

Porteous, Dr., 143

Potatoes, a luxury in Togo, 278

Quinine, importance of in West Africa, 50

Ramadam, Mohammedan fast, 65

Rentzel, Lieutenant von, 28

Royal Anthropological Institute, 201

Royal Geographical Society, 201, 248

Salt, paying carriers in, 118; as currency, value of in Northern Togo, 161, 171

Schomburgk, Major Hans, 17 et seq., 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 50, 52, 55, 57, 61, 72, 78, 85, 88, 89, 95, 97, 100, 102, 104, 106, 110, 113, 115, 121, 123, 131, 134, 139, 140, 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 152, 156, 170, 190, 195, 196, 203, 211, 223, 225, 227, 233, 236, 245, 252, 287

Sleeping sickness, 287

Soap, native made, 267

Sokode, 68, 103, 159, 186, 234, 261, 283, 284, 285, 288, 292

Soldiers, native, 199, 200

"Songu," native rest-house, 137

Sumbu, native village, 156, 164 et seq.; inhabitants of, 171, 177

Snakes, adventure with a venomous, 100, 183

Sudu Mountains, 284

Tabalo Mountain, 282

Tamberma Fort, 128; and people, 129, 130, 202

Tax, head, native, 129

Teneriffe, 25

"Tick-birds," 188

Tim plain, 284

Tschaudjo, native tribe, 69 et seq.; clever horsemanship of, 73; mounted supers, 77, 265, 274, 285

Tschokossi, native tribe, 128, 141, 145, 147, 156, 168, 176, 185, 192, 201, 265, 274

Tschopowa, welcome by natives to, 221; ceremonial dance at, 222; marabou feathers worn by natives at, 222, 223; big baobab tree at, 224; curious corn-bins at, 225; bats at, 225

Tsetse-fly, 284, 287

Turtles in the Oti River, 190

Unyogo, 205; a "woman palaver" at, 207

Uro Djabo, paramount chief of the Tschaudjo, 69 et seq., 213

Uro-Ganedo-Bo, 282

Village, native, remarkable fortified, 164 et seq.

Vultures as scavengers, 98, 139

Vollbehr, Herr, paints my portrait, 306

Widows, hard fate of, 274

Wedding ceremonies, native, 265

"White Goddess of the Wangora," dramatic film, 32 et seq., 90, 304

Windhuk, wireless station at, 299

Wireless telegraphy between Kamina and Berlin, 300

Women and girls, native, 40 et seq.; a young philosopher, 45; filming the life of a native wife, 46; women weavers at Bafilo, 94; "abduction" of a girl, 102; modesty of, 105; wild at Sumbu, 164, 175, 200; Konkombwa at Nambiri, 215; a conjugal quarrel, 216; as carriers, 238, 239; slaves as iron miners at Banjeli, 246; marriage customs, 264; infant betrothals, 264; illegitimate births, customs regarding, 264, 265; wedding ceremonies, 265, 266; polygamy, 267; childbirth, 268; fetish women, 272; introcision, rite of, 272; initiation ceremonies at puberty, 273

"Zoo," London, two of Major Schomburgk's pygmy "hippos" in, 19; Hamburg, 187, 235

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