INDEX

Adcock, 21

Africander Corps, 27

Animal life, 272-8

Ants, plague of, 130-1

Asi, the, 297

Askari, the, 40

Athi plain, the, 47

Baden-Powell, General Sir R. S. S., 30

Bamboo forests, 78-9, 122, 272

Banana growing, 302

Bartier, 134, 154-5, 217-21, 224

Bartion, 299

Bee-keeping, 161

Bongo, the, 273

Boyes, John, early days, 2; goes to sea, 3-4; first adventure, 4-5; escapade at Heligoland, 5-6; Hull to Liverpool, 6-7; Rotterdam escapade, 8; sails as A.B., 9; illness at Laguna, 9-11; joiningjoining the R.N.R., 12; West Africa, 12-15; disappointment regardingregarding certificate, 15; Africa, 15, 16; work on the railway, 18, 19; bound for Bulawayo, 21-6; joins Matabeleland Mounted Police, 26-7; work with Africander Corps, 27-30; first stores, 31; holiday at East London, 32; 317goes on the stage, 32; goes to sea again, 32; bound for Mombasa, 33-6; transport caravans, 38-41, 44-5; adventures with lions, 44, 59, 60, 69, 70, 274-5; loss of stores, 55-7; end of the journey, 60; desertion of natives, 61-2; Rice transport, 71-4; into the Kikuyu country, 76-91; trading, 87-90, 137, 142-7, 163-4, 198-9; settling of native quarrels, 93-5; cementing relationship, 97-9; teaching the natives self-protection, 106-8; precautions against attack, 108-9; a second house, 111-12; attacked by natives, 112-14; his standing with natives, 118-20, 126-9; trouble with natives, 137-42; his death prophesied, 145; tricking the natives, 166-7; plot and attack, 167-74; disappearance of cattle, 174-7; rain at last, 178; desire to establish peace, 179, 216; camp in Wagambi’s country, 185-6; into hostile country, 199-202; the Wanderobo country, 203-15; help for the Goanese, 217-24; fight against the Chinga, 224-32; 318its effects, 234-5; stores taken to Naivasha, 240; settling down, 240-3; taking starving natives to Karuri’s, 248-51; life in a native village, 253-4; adventures with animals, 273-8; interviews Government officials, 280-3; summons of, 284-7; in Mombasa jail, 288-9; on bail, 289-91; his trial and acquittal, 291; officialdom, 291-4; a post under Government, 294; general survey, 295-315

“British Mission to Uganda” quoted, 49-52

Building a house, 90-1

Cachukia, 238-9

Caranja, 132

Chinga, the, 152, 216-32, 234

Circumcision, practice of, 304-5

Clock, native wonder at, 166-7, 173

Colonial fruit and produce stores, Bulawayo, 31

Cooking customs, 268-9

Coptic Church, the, 263

Cow, value of the, 163

Dances of natives, 104-5, 264-5

“Dead Donkey Camp,” 74

Dhow, the Arab, 33-6

Dick, Mr., 56

Drinking, see Njohi

Drought, see Rain-famine

Durban, 32

East London, 32

Eating customs, see Food

Eleminteita, Lake, 58-9

319Elephants, natives killed by, 272; hunting of, 165-6

Eliot, Sir Chas., 294, 315

Elliott, G. F. Scott, quoted, 52-3

Elstop, 30-1

Engelfingin, 2

Equator Camp, 60-1

Famine, 247-50

Findlay, 116-17

Fire-stick, the, 89, 90

Flour, bartering of, 87-8, 114

Food of the Kikuyu, 267-8

Food stores, 142, 146, 240

Fort Smith, 50

Frielich, 31

Gibbons, 39, 46, 53, 60-1, 66, 71, 116-17, 144, 199

Gilkinson, Mr., 252

Girouard, Sir Percy, 292, 294, 308

Goanese, the, 216-24, 234

Gorges, Captain, 77, 88

Government, the Kikuyu system of, 302-3

Grant, 23-5, 27

“Great Rift Valley, The,” 52

Gregory, Professor, 52

Guard-keeping, 106-7

Guasa Nyero River, 189, 205, 213

Hall, 278

Hall, Mr. F. G., 281-2, 285-6

Hand-shaking, native custom of, 128

Heligoland, 5

Henga, 154-5

Hicks Pasha, 66

Honey-bird, the, 207-8

Hospital arrangements at Laguna, 9-11

Hubner, 42

320Industries of B. E. Africa, 308-9

“Isle of War,” see Mombasa

Ivory, trading for, 144, 146, 163-6, 178, 187, 198, 203, 212, 233

Juganowa Makura, 133-5

Kalyera, the, 122, 124-5, 132-5, 136, 149-50, 248, 259, 294

“Karanjai,” 126, 127, 132-3

Karkerrie, 144, 160-3, 166-7, 170-3, 179, 191-4, 231, 235, 305

Karuri, 81-2, 85-8, 92, 94-5, 145, 150, 179, 229, 233, 235, 237-9, 245-6, 255-6, 297, 305

Kasu, 297

Katuni, 161-2, 173, 178

Kedong Valley, 54, 77-8, 88

Kikuyu, the, 49-53, 74-5, 76-99, 102, 127, &c., 152-5, 183, 259-60, 264-71, 295-315

Kikuyu tribe, origin of the, 92-3, 296-300; chiefship of, 305-6; punishments of, 306-7

Kilemongai, 262

Kinangop plain, 75, 78-9, 276

Kipling quoted, 313

Kismayu, 173

Knight of St. John, 7

Kolb, Dr., 212-13

Laguna, 9

Laikipia plain, 183

Lake Simcoe, 9, 11-12

Leopard, adventure with a, 276-8

Lions, coolies, fear of, 42; audacity of, 42-3; adventures with, 42-4, 48, 59, 69-70, 274-6

Liverpool, 7

Longanot, 262

Longfield, Captain, 281-2, 285-6

321Mabrook Camp, 71

McLellan, Mr., 294

Mahigga, 219

Majuba Hill, 18

Maklutsi, 22-3

Man-eating lions, 51, see Lions

Market, native, 192-3

Marriage customs, 265-6, 303-4

Martin, 51-2, 60

Masai, the, 49, 54-7, 65, 73, 93; attack on the Kikuyu, 112-14; their relation with the Kikuyu, 298-300

Maswatch-wanya, the, 92, 160

Matabele, the, 26; first war, 28

Matabeleland Mounted Police, 26-7

Matama, 302

Mawhali, 302

Mberri, 279-83

Measurements, native standard of, 164-5

Medicine, 159-60, see also under Poisons

Menzini, 78-9, 149

Miles, Sergeant, 76

Milk, superstitions about, 135-6

Missionaries, 309-14

Mombasa, 36-7, 288-9

Monkey, the Colobus, 273

Mount Kenia, 108, 143, 183-4, 159-60, 242

Mud-fish, 24-5

Muga-wa-diga, 156-8, 161-2, 173, 178, 191-5

Mule, native astonishment of, 150

Music of the Kikuyu, 102-5

Nandi, the, 61

Nairobi, 47-8, 148, 287, 307-8

Naivasha, 74-5, 88, 114-5, 122, 125, 240, 275

322Naivasha, Lake, 58

Nakuru, 60, 71

“Naturalist in Mid-Africa, A,” quoted, 52-3

News, transmission of, 66-7

Ngai, 92, 127, 133, 197, 260-3

Ngoma, 197, 260

Niekerk, Captain Van, 27

Njohi, drinking of, 142-3, 161-2, 193-4

Njora River, 62

Nyeri, 173

O’Hara, 42

Olomondo, 189-90, 193-6, 203, 206, 213-15

Ornaments of the Kikuyu, 270-1

Paget, Colonel, 28

Perenti, 42-3

Pigasangi, 97-9, 178-9, 187, 191-8

Poisons, native, 118-20

Poisons of Karuri, 245-6

Population of the Kakuyu, 296

Portal, Sir Gerald, quoted, 49-52

Prophesying by natives, 159-60

Rain-famine, 247-8

Rain-maker, chief, 219, 235-8, 239-40

Rain-makers, 155, see Witch-doctors

Rain-making to order, 166-7, 210-11

Ravine, Fort, 60

Religious observances, 197-8, 255-8, 261-3

Rial, 42-3, 65

Rudolph, natives of Lake, 263

323Salisbury, 23

Salt, native liking for, 129; method of obtaining, 129-39; substitute for, 130

Selous, F. C., 30

Shangani Patrol, 27-8

Shimoni, 36

Sin-vomiting, 257-8

Smallpox, outbreak of, 243-5

Smith, Claude, 289-90

Smith, Major, 60

Somali traders, difficulties with, 239-43

South Africa, 17

Spitting, custom of, 263-4

Standerton, 19-20

Superstitions of natives, 135-6, 143, 182, 207-8, 210, 213-14, 245-7, 262

Swahili, the, 39-40, 65, 184, 209, 251

Sword, method of wearing the, 90, 127, 237

Tato, 109, 110, 144, 163-77, 216

Tea, native liking for, 129

Teck, Prince Alexander of, 28

Thieves, native method of protection from, 246-7

Thompson, Joseph, 52

Tobacco-growing, 271

Trading, difficulties of, 240-3

Trading stations, 124

Trading with natives, 87-90, 137, 142, 146-7, 163-4, 198-9

Treachery of natives, 90-1, 127

Turkana country, 106

Uganda Railway, 36, 38, 41, 54, 71

Umkanori, 302

324Umvunga Drift, 30

Uwini, 28-9

Vegetation in Kikuyu country, 301-2, 308

Vincent, 278

Wagombi, 108, 143, 160-1, 178-88, 190-8, 202-4, 215, 231, 235, 294, 305

Wakamba, 45, 119-20, 299-300

Wake, Captain, 294

Wa-Kikuyu, see Kikuyu

Walsh, Mr. and Mrs., 114-15

325Wanderobo tribe, the, 165, 189-90, 203-5

Water, locating of, 72-3

Wattle, planting of Black, 240-1

Weapons of the Kikuyu, 269-70

Wilson, Major, 28

Witch-doctors, 143-5, 159-60, see Poisons

Women, protection of, 275-6

Wunjaggi, 125, 127-8

Yorks and Lancs Regiment, 28

Zanzibar, 32

Zebra, the, 73

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Transcriber’s Note

The author refers to Laguna, Brazil, as ‘Laguña’. However, the index correctly removes the tilde. To avoid confusion, the text was corrected.

The Index entry on p. 316, for John Boyes, garbles two subentries on line breaks: ‘join- the R.N.R.’ and ‘disappointment regards -ing certificate’. It seems probable that the ‘-ing’ was simply misplaced. The entires have been corrected to appear as ‘joining the R.N.R.’ and ‘disappointment regards certificate’.

The references here are to the page and line in the original.

9.21 and on arriving at Lagu[ñ/n]a Replaced.

92.12 conversations with Ka[r]uri Inserted.

316.25 join[ing] the R.N.R. Added.

316.27 disappointment regards[ ing] Removed.