INDEX

Aden, 14

Aeroplanes, 29, 77, 114

African sounds, 31

Africa’s vastness, 8, 139

Ambushed patrol, 26, 28

Ammunition abandoned, 127, 132

Animals dying, 76;

exhausted, 91

Ants, 167, 222

Armour-plate tests, 111

Army, a mixed, 65

Aruscha road, 70, 74

Askaris surrender, 151

Bagomayo, 124

Baluchis, 66, 85, 165

Bay of Biscay, 6

Bayonet charge, 110, 188

Bees, 222

Behobeho, 166

Belgian Force, 124

Beves, Gen., 164

Big game, 202

Bird life in East Africa, 206-207

Bird migration, north-bound, 10

Birds collected, 209-215

Birds of special interest, 216

Boat-hawking vendors, 9

Bridges destroyed, 104, 124

Bridges, repairing, 83, 122

Brits, Gen., mounted troops, 118

Buck jump, great, 89

Buffalo, 48, 92, 203

Buiko, delayed at, 95

Bukoba, 20, 22

Bukubuku, large camp at, 130

Bush foils decisive combat, 139

Bush-war difficulties, 29, 138, 184

Camp routine, 36

Camp shelters, 141

Cape Town, rest at, 171

Casualties, 165, 190, 194

Casualties at Kahe, 84

Central railway, marching on, 103

Central railway falls, 124

Character and command, 233

Character, impulses of, 230

Clifford strikes, 58

Climate of intense heat, 34, 114

Coaling, 9

Colony lost to Germans, 124

Convoy sail, 4

Country beautiful, Ulugúru Mts., 127, 154

Country, cultivated, 76, 125

Country terribly unhealthy, 197

Criticism, disturbing, 237

Crocodile shot, 141

Cultivation, native, 105, 146

Cunliffe, Gen., 165

Currency, doubtful German, 107

Dakawa, 165

Dar-es-Salaam surrenders, 124

Dark days, 195

Dartnell, Lieut., V.C., 19

Daylight, hours of, 13, 27

Defu River, 80

Desert, march through forsaken, 71

Dik-dik, 102

Doves, numerous, 146, 206

Dress, typical, 45

Driscoll, Colonel, 3

Driving off cattle, enemy, 44

Duiker, Harvey’s, 111

Dunthumi River, 133

Dust, marching in thick, 69

East Africa, nearing, 15

Egyptian kite, 15

Eland, 28, 203

Elephants, 155, 203

Elephant tusks, 160

Engare Naniuki, 70

Entrenchments, Ruhungu, 120

Fever, more cases, 141

Fires not allowed, 94

Fly pests, 220

Fly, tsetse, 221

Food at low ebb, 149

Food, bartering for native, 107, 112

Food, German, reported short, 151

Food, hunting game for, 97, 133, 143

Forces dwindling, 113, 150

Freebooters, German, 51

Frontiersmen, 2

Frontier skirmishes, 18

Frontier stations, 17

Front, four-mile, 187

Front, nine-mile, 177

Front, twenty-mile, 164

Fuga hills, 166

Fusiliers, 25th Royal, 67, 177, 193

Game, big, 202

Geraragua River, 71

Gerenuk antelope, 101

German askaris surrender, 151

“German Bridge” engagement, 93

German East Africa, area of, 139

German East Africa threatened, 65

German freebooters, 51

German natives hired, 133

German paper rupees, 107

Gibraltar, 7

Gilham, Lieut., goes hunting, 97

Gitu, 105

Goanese, 76

Gold Coast Regiment, 129

Greeks, 76

Guaso Nyero Valley, 47

Guerilla warfare, Bukoba, 22

Guinea-fowl, 99

Guns, heavy, stranded, 164

Guns, Koenigsberg, captured, 82, 166

Gun-teams, sickness depletes, 142

Handeni neighbourhood, 106

Hannyngton’s, Gen., Brigade, 118

Hartebeeste shot, 40

Heat, climate of intensive, 34, 147, 168

Hen, pet white, 112, 115

Hill country, impassable, 119

Himo River, 80

Hippopotamus, 204

Horses dying, 73, 108

Hoskins, Gen., C.-in-C., 172, 176

Hot springs, 158

Houses inhabited, 74

Hunting at Kajiado, 39

Hunting game for food, 97

Hyenas in camp, 143

Indian Ocean, 15

Industry, need of, 229

Information, natives give, 130

Ivory, 160

Jungle, cruel-fanged, 97

Kahe, enemy strength at, 84

Kahe, hard fighting at, 80

Kajiado, hunting at, 40

Kanga-Kilindi range, 118

Kasanga, 154

Kasigau, occupied by enemy, 42

Kavirondos, 202

Kearton, Cherry, 2

Kibambawe, 171

Kibo, 35

Kibosho, 87

Kiderengwe, 166

Kihunsa ridge, 129

Kikuyus, 202

Kilimanjaro, 35

Kilossa, 124

Kilwa, 176

Kilwa column, position of, 179

King’s African Rifles, 67, 144, 177, 188, 193

Kipanya ridge, 187

Kiruru, 166

Kissaki, activities, 149

Kissaki camp, 140, 144

Kissaki, enemy retiring to, 130

Kisumu, 19

Kite, Egyptian, 15

Kitulo Hill, 176

Koodoo, Lesser, 99

Kraals, native, 146

Kraut, Major, 78, 189

Krupp gun, small, 111

Kwa-Beku, 117

Kwa-Direma, 110

Lake Natron at dawn, 55

Lake steamship craft, 20

Lake Victoria Nyanza, 19

Landing effected, Bukoba, 22

Leadership, 235

Lembeni outflanked, 90

Lindi Bay, 174

Lindi, 175

Lindi, return to, 185

Lions, 40, 53, 205

Locusts, 34

London, departure from, 3

Longido west camp, 64

Long-range guns, enemy, 130

Loyal North Lancashires, 23

Luăle Liwăle River, 121

Lukigura River, march on, 109

Lukuledi River, 176

Luxuries (?), 39

Lyall, Gen., 166

Machine guns, death-dealing, 80

Magali Ridge, 127

Maize, 146

Makindu, 109, 113

Makindu, advance beyond, 118

Maktau, reconnaissance, 27

Malaria, victim of, 123

Malta, 9

Mango, tree and fruit, 145

Masai, 48, 202

Masai, respect white chief, 62

Massimbani track, 116

Massassi, 197

Material, war, 226

Mawensi, 35

Mayani, 187

Mbuyuni, back to, 87

Mediterranean Sea, 7

Mgata, 129

Mgeta river front, 140, 144, 164

Mice plague, 223

Millet, 146

Mingoyo, 184

Mkalamo, 103

Mkalinso, 171

Mkwaya, 177

Mohambika, 184, 187

Mombasa, 15

Mombo, 103

Monitors at Lindi, 177

Monsoon, South-west, 27

Morogoro occupied, 123

Moschi, 74

Moschi area all clear, 86

Mosquitoes, 221

Mountain pass partly blocked, 128

Mounted troops, Gen. Brits, 118

Mpala, 40, 133, 203

Mpapua, 124

Mrweka, 184

Mssente, 116

Mtanda plateau, 187

Mules dying, 73

Mules, Somali, 44

Mules, South American, 67

Mwúhe River, 122

Mwuha River, 131

Nagasseni, 70

Narunyu, 191

Native cultivation, 105, 146

Native kraals, 146

Natives fearful of shell-fire, 114

Natives, German, hired, 133, 201

Natives of East Africa, 201

Naval gun captured, 82, 166

Neuralia, troopship, 4

Nguru mountains, 109, 114, 118

Nguruman mountains, 47

Nigerian regiment, 165, 198

Night attack by enemy, 78, 194

Night landings, 20, 179

Night scouting, 30

Nkessa’s, 133, 134

North Pole Star, 13

Observation post destroyed, 129

Offensive, commencement of, 68, 174

Officers, 233

O’Grady, Gen., 177, 198

Ol Doinyo Orok, 32

Operations against Narunyu fail, 119

Operations in Ulugúru Mts., 125

Outpost, Maktau, 26

Outpost scattered, 71

Outram, George, 3

Oxen dying, 108

Pangani River, column leaves, 105

Pangani River, down the, 88

Parcels from home, 38, 148

Pare mountains, 93

Patrol ambushed, 26, 28

Patrols, 18

Plantations, coffee, 76

Plantations, rubber, 76, 176

Plants collected, 218

Plymouth Dock, 4

Port Said, 10

Punjabis, 66

Raiders, heading off, 52

Railway, central, falls, 124

Railway protection, 17

Railway to Tanga clear, 103

Rains, 35, 76, 145, 164, 172

Ramazani, Selous’s gun-bearer, 170

Rank and file, 233

Rations, Gen. Sheppard on, 147

Rations very short, 96, 104

Rearguard skirmish, 72

Rearguards harass advance, 108, 131

Reconnaissance flanking Ruhungu, 115

Reconnaissance, Maktau, 27

Red Sea, 13

Reedbuck, 133, 142, 203

Rhinoceros, 27, 28, 30, 204

Rhodesians, 2nd, 93

Routine in camp, 26, 36

Routing the raiders, 60

Rovuma River, Germans cross, 199

Royal Fusiliers, 25th, 67, 177, 193

Rubber plantations, 76, 176

Rufiji, enemy retreat to, 170

Rufiji, postponed advance to, 144

Rufiji River, north of, 125

Ruhungu, operations fail, 119

Russongo River, 121

Ruwu River (Kahe front), 78, 82

Ruwu River (Ulugúru Mts.), 127

Ryan, Martin, 3, 158

Saidi-bin-Mohammed, 43

Sanja River, 73

Scouting, night, 30

Selous, F. C., 2, 162, 169

Sheep hills, 69

Shelled by naval guns, 92, 110, 196

Shell-fire, prolonged, 114, 196

Sheppard, Gen., 93, 106, 147, 165

Shombole Mountain, 56

Sickness depletes gun-teams, 142

Sickness, food shortage causes, 38

Single-handed adventure, 44

Sleep in mud and water, 85

Sleep lost and overtaxed, 89

Smuts, Gen., C.-in-C., 68

Smuts, Gen., pressing forward, 95, 104, 121

Snakes, 223

Snowfall on Kilimanjaro, 35

Soko-Nassai River, 80

Soldiers underfed, underclothed, 146

Somali mules, 44

Sounds, African, 31

South African troops coming, 41

Southern Cross, 28

South Pare mountains, 93

Ssangeni, 106

Ssonjo, 108

Starving natives, 196

Stations, frontier, 17

Steamship craft, lake, 20

Stores abandoned, 132

Storks, 34

Suez Canal, 11

Sunburn, extreme, 169

Supply difficulties, adding to, 126

Surrender, Tafel’s force, 199

Swahili-speaking tribes, 200

Tabora, Belgian force occupy, 124

Tafel’s force surrender, 199

Tandamuti, attack fails on, 187

Tandamuti front clear, 191

Tanga clear, railway to, 103

Taveta base, 88

Telegraph wires cut, 150

Thorn trees, 98

Tieta hills, 30

Tobacco, out of, 148

Trackless country, 69

Tragic end, 199

Transport difficulties, 75, 104, 113

Transport attacked, 189

Trees, thorn, 98

Trolley line, 103, 180

Troopship, 4, 5

Tsetse fly, 221

Tulo, 132

Tulo, delayed at, 140

Uganda railway, 17, 42

Ulugúru mountains, operations in, 125

Ulugúru mountains, seeking road, 154

Unhealthy area, a very, 140, 197

Usambara railway, enemy leaving, 103

Usambara railway, west of, 88, 93

Van Deventer’s, Gen., column, 81, 124

Van Deventer, Gen., C.-in-C., 176

Victoria Nyanza Lake, 19

Voi Railway mined, 26

Von Lettow crosses Rovuma River, 199

Von Lettow, forces under, 176

Wami River, fight at, 122

War material, 226

Watch-dog’s duties, 17

Water, 18, 48, 194

Waterbuck, 142, 203

Waterless wilderness, 45

Waterloo station, 1

Whirlpools, 48

White troops leave country, 144

Wilderness and night, 47

Wilderness country, 64, 139

Wilhelmstal, 103

Willoughby, Major Sir John, 111

Wireless station destroyed, 20, 25

Ziwani, fighting at, 183

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