INDEX

Abdul Karim, 228

Abeibera, wells, 282, 284

Acheb, a desert herb, 292, 330

Addax in the Sahara, 284

Adrar country, 266, 270, 271, 273, 277, 278, 280, 284, 297, 298, 310, 316

Africa, 17

Agamhor, wells of, 257

Ahnet wells, 307, 310, 311, 312, 314

Akka, 173, 174

Algeria, 134, 287, 338, 339

Algerian rams, 180

Algiers, journey to, 17, 323, 339

Alimamy, West African chief, 57

Amool Gragim, 307

Ansongo, 134, 223

Arabs, Berabeesh, 231

Chaamba, 324

Kountah, 226, 231, 250, 253, 265

Saharan, 304, 316, 318, 320, 321, 323, 327, 329

Western Soudan, 192, 219, 231, 245, 272, 282, 289

Architecture, Western Soudan, 154

Aresou, a Saharan plant, 300

Armas, race of, 244

Arrej, or camel saddle, 296

Artesian wells, 319, 335, 340

Atlas Mountains, 193

Azalai, salt caravan, 230

Bagwé River, 36

Baiima, 22

Balandougou, 92, 103

Ballaini, a musical instrument, 54

Bamako, 70, 73, 85, 90, 103, 104, 107, 111, 113, 118, 119, 120, 133, 195, 233, 240, 241

Bamba, 239, 241

Bambara language, 18, 69

people, 122, 123, 136, 141, 192, 227, 236

Maaundée, 207, 208, 217

Bandiagara, 128, 157

Bani River, 150, 156, 157, 159, 176

Baobab tree, 68

Bara Issa, River, 173, 182, 190, 191, 195, 204, 219, 220, 222

Barges, Niger, 103, 145, 154, 176, 233, 235

Barley, 318, 338

Barter, articles of, 234

Barth, explorer, 228

Beehives in Guinea, 66

Beni-Abbes, 318, 330, 340

“Bend” of Niger, 128, 130, 131, 164, 177, 187, 193, 206, 229, 235, 239, 243

Beyla slaves, 271

Bird life, 38, 39, 40, 41

Biskra, 318, 323, 335, 336, 337, 338

Bo, Sierra Leone, 20

Bobo Djilassu, 67, 141, 144, 148

Boia tramway, 22

“Borgou” herb, 171, 177, 186, 221, 238, 239, 243

Bosos, fishermen, 151, 192, 221, 222

“Boucle,” the, 128

Boundary of Algeria-Soudan, 287

Bouramaka Yaroro, 203

Bourassa wells, 284, 285, 287

Bourem, 242, 243, 253

Braimah, my hunter, 78, 81, 82, 86, 87

Bread, cost of, 190

Breeding of Soudan horses, 140, 222

Bullock transport, 217

Bunce River, 23

“Bundu” society, 23, 31, 44

Buré, 101

Burial rites of Korankos, 43, 44

Bushcow in Konnoh country, 34

Bush fires in West Africa, 37, 38, 52

Bushfowl in French West Africa, 39, 110, 179, 218

Bustard, 40, 164, 178, 218

Butter-making at Bamako, 130

Camels on the Niger, 132, 144, 217, 231

Camels in the Sahara, 245, 250, 252, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 268, 276, 279, 286, 287, 292, 295, 298, 300, 320, 328, 332

Camping on the Niger, 148

Cancer, tropic of, 280

Canoe-building, 193, 195

Canoes on the Niger, 185, 193, 222, 226

Caravans in the desert, 242, 269, 286, 305, 323, 324, 339

Carriers, French Guinea, 49, 52, 81, 92, 94

Kissy, 26

Mendi, 26

Upper Senegal and Niger, 113

Castes, in French Guinea, 57, 58

Cattle, 171, 197, 238

Cave-dwellers, 215

Chaamba Arabs, 324, 330

Chad, Lake, 110

Charlotte Ville, 160, 161

Chiefs in French Guinea, 93

Chop-box, definition of, 21, 141

Chotts, 340

Clay in the Niger Valley, 195, 243

Coach to Biskra, 336

College, Arabic, at Djenné, 161

Colomb-Béchar, 318, 323

Cook, my native, on the journey, 18, 70, 236

Corn-growing, 318

Cotton-growing in Sierra Leone, 27

West Africa, 28, 150

Couscous, 234, 275, 286, 306

Cowbird, peculiarity of, 41

Cram-cram grass, 238, 265, 268, 291

Creoles, description of, 20

Crested crane, 241

Crocodiles, 146, 147

Crown-bird, 241

Dahomey, 130, 245

Dakar, 153, 228

Dances, native, 65, 66

Daru, head-quarters of Frontier Force, 25

Dates, in the Sahara, 275, 286, 318, 319, 320, 328, 330, 334

Date palms, 239, 317, 318, 319, 336

Defile of Tosaye, 241, 242

De Franco, Captain, 140

Déglet-nour, dates, 319, 334

Délou, waterbucket of the desert, 250

Diafarabé, 154, 176

Dialakoro, hunting village, 78

Digue, Commandant, 133

Dioula, trader of Western Soudan, 63

Djenné, Holy City of Western Soudan, 153, 154, 157, 159, 161, 167, 176, 192, 229

Domaggaran, 311

Donkeys in the Western Soudan, 223, 231, 284

Douentza, in the Niger “Bend,” 202, 207, 208, 210

Doulajan, 80, 82

Doves in the Sahara, 256

Driver ants, 168

Drums, use of, as signals, 76

Duck on the Niger, 70, 148, 172, 174, 175, 188, 218, 240

Duiker “crowned,” 60

Dum palms, in the Niger Valley, 190, 193, 197

Egrets on the Niger, 165

Eguerrer, Oueds, 265

El Bashir, camel driver, 285, 286, 287, 297

El Gouirat, wells of, 316

El Guettera, spring, 328, 329, 330

El Jibal, 312

El Djouf, the “Belly of the Desert,” 340

Elephant bathing at night, 211, 212

Elephant in the Niger Valley, 18, 59, 80, 82, 84, 85, 95, 96, 211

Elephant skulls at Gao, 243

Erg, the Great, 331

Erg-Iguidi, 272

Escort to Kidal, my, 245, 246, 251, 267

Es-Souk, 229, 277

Ethel, Saharan vegetation, 290, 291, 298

Explorers in North and West Africa, 227, 228

Falama, French Guinea, 76, 78, 85, 89, 111

Fama, the, of San Sanding, 151

Farakoro village, 46, 47

Faranah, French Guinea, 51, 53, 56, 84

Feliko, River, 36

Ferrière, Captain, 225

Fetish charms of hunters, 83, 86, 87

Fie River, 90, 95, 99, 101, 102

Firearms, antiquated, 197

Fishing on the Niger, 105

Fish-tanks on the Niger, 186, 238

“Flamboyant” tree, 144

Fogaras, 318

Foggaret-El-Zoua, 328

Foucauld, Vicomte de, 325

Freetown, 17

Frontier Force Battalion, 25

Frontier rock, Sierra Leone, 36

Fruit in Guinea, 66

Fruit in Upper Senegal and Niger, 123

Fuel for Niger launches, 144, 148

Fulani, 57, 64, 74, 186, 190, 192, 199, 200, 202, 207, 209, 217, 222, 238

Fulani cattle, 171, 197, 238, 240

Futa Jallon country, 63, 64, 72, 200

Gadel, Commandant, 236

Gangaber, on the edge of the Sahara, 247

Gao, 225, 226, 233, 234, 237, 243, 251, 252, 254, 257, 274, 279, 284, 295, 317, 338, 340

Garangis, caste of, 57

Garden in French West Africa, 65, 123, 149

Gauba, the ostrich farm, 179, 182, 184

Gazelle of the Sahara, 179, 196

“Red-Fronted,” 178, 240, 255

Gazelle, “Loder’s,” 265, 284, 297, 298, 330

Geese on the Niger, 70, 172, 174, 175, 188, 218

Giraffe in the Niger basin, 18, 241, 246, 247

Giraffe skins for manufacture, 246

Goats on the Niger, 156, 238

in the Sahara, 256, 273, 289

Gold in French Guinea, 91, 101

“Gold mohur” tree, 144

Goose, the “bio-lou” species, 175

Great Erg, 230

Grhess, a variety of date, 319

Ground nuts, 62, 63, 130

Guerba, a leather vessel, 249, 250, 308, 309, 315

Guides in the desert, 248, 250, 261, 263, 264, 269

Guinea-fowl, 39, 110, 179, 270

Guinée, a trade cloth, 234, 256, 270

Gundam, near Timbuctu, 228

Haarta, Saharan plant, 300

Haartebeest, 83, 178, 204, 206

Habbés, cave-dwellers, 215, 216

Halley’s Comet, in the desert, 287

Harmatan, a north-east wind, 24, 42, 43

Hassy, Arabic term for well, 331

Hausas in the Western Soudan, 192, 203, 236, 311

Head-dress of West Africans, 123

Highwaymen in the desert, 312

Hippopotamus, 79

Hoare, a Mendi charm, 29

Hoggar Tuaregs, 287, 300, 310, 311, 312, 313, 325

Holy City of the Western Soudan, 153

Hombori Mountains, 215

Hornbill, habitat of, 38

Horos, castle of, 57

Horses, native, 71, 125, 131, 139, 140, 201, 209, 222, 231

Hotels in Western Soudan, 132, 134

Hourst Expedition, 138

Hrabis, caste of, 57

Human Leopard Society, 30

Hump of the camel, peculiarity, 280, 295

Hunters, types of, 78, 195, 207, 208, 210

Hunting, native methods of, 60

in French West Africa, 78

Huts, native, 190, 202

Hyenas, 83

Iforas in the Sahara, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278, 283, 287, 310, 324, 326

Ihagareen, Tuareg chiefs, 271

Illimane, Mount, 311

Imbelram, wells of, 315

Imrads among Tuaregs, 271

Inifel, the wells of, 331, 332

In Ouzel, well at, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 294, 297

Insalah, 249, 251, 269, 274, 275, 279, 315, 330, 331, 340

Insects in the “bush,” 116

Inundations of the Niger, 158, 190, 201, 220

Inzize, 305

Issa-Ber, River, 173, 176, 182, 184, 186, 190, 222

Ivory Coast, 130

Jilingé village, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102

Joliba River, 36, 156

meaning of the word, 36

Jomongonas, 98, 99, 101

“Juju” in West Africa, 29, 83, 87, 88

Kaballa, in Sierra Leone, 47

Kabara, port of Timbuctu, 173, 177, 220, 221, 223, 237

Kadi, a native judge, 153

Kamaraia, 54

Kangaba, 90, 110, 111

Kanioumé, 207

Kankan, French Guinea, 70, 73, 74, 75, 103, 115, 131

Kano, 192

Kari-Déna, Tuareg chief, 272

Kati Plateau, 118, 120, 124, 125

Kayes, Senegal Colony, 129, 130, 150, 151

Kerchouel, 254

Kidal, 245, 246, 250, 251, 252, 254, 256, 266, 267, 268, 270, 274, 275, 276, 277, 281, 298, 326

Kiénéfala, rapids on the Niger, 136, 137, 241

Kissidougou, 52, 55

Kissy carriers, 26

mode of carrying, 27

country, 32

wars, 32

Koh, in West Africa, 44, 45, 80, 106, 110, 184, 221, 240

Kofung secret society, 44

Kola nuts, 86, 87, 203

Konakry, 63, 228

Kondundu, Sierra Leone, 35

Konnoh country and people, 32, 33

bushcow in, 34

Koran, use of in charms, 29

Korankos, rites of, 43, 44, 45

Korioumé, 223

Koulikoro, on the Niger, 122, 127, 129, 133, 148, 150, 151, 195, 222

Koulouba, 126, 127

Kouroussa, 56, 60, 63, 64, 67, 68, 70, 73, 103

Kruto, Sierra Leone, 43

Ksour, Arabic village, 317, 320

Kundema, Sierra Leone, 35

Kurorua, lake of, 215, 216

Kwarra, name for the Niger, 156

Ladies, European, in West Africa, 55, 73, 120, 134, 222

Laing, Major, 227

Lake District of Middle Niger, 206, 207

Langel, Lieutenant, 134

Laperine, Colonel, 316, 317

Launch, journey on, 141, 144

Lenz, explorer, 228

Leopard in Niger Valley, 83, 181

raid by, 181

Level, Mr., 150

Limba natives, 44

Lion in Niger Valley, 18, 83, 179, 187, 197, 198, 199

cubs as pets, 165, 166

Litham of Tuaregs, 270, 271, 312

Macina Province, 131, 157, 159, 161, 243

Madambougou, graves at, 138

Mafindo, village of, 27

Mafou River, game on, 56, 59, 60

Mahomed, my guide, 269, 277, 282, 284, 286, 288, 289, 297, 298, 299, 304, 307, 308, 312, 313, 316, 326

Maize in West Africa, 62, 111

Maje, explorer, 139

Malbranque, Mr., 176

Malinké language and people, 18, 57, 64, 71

Mamadu, my servant, 69, 70, 81, 89, 92, 93, 94, 96, 100, 102, 110, 112, 118, 185, 188, 189, 236

Mandingoes, distribution of, 33, 67

Mannagézé, 116

Marabout, a Niger bird, 241

Markets of French West Africa, 74, 112, 122, 130, 131, 192

Marriage customs, Sierra Leone, 31

Mauretania, 107, 144, 274

Méhari, riding camel, 270, 324

Méhariste, 322, 329, 331, 333

Meli River, passage of, 32

Mendi carriers, 26

mode of carrying, 27

paganism of, 29

secret societies, 29

Mendis, charms of, 29

Meshoui, an Arab dish, 334

Mesoued, for desert travel, 248, 313

Millet-growing, 111, 158, 192, 202

Milo River, 73, 76

Mimosa trees, 163, 178, 204, 206, 246, 254, 266, 289, 290

Moa River, Sierra Leone, 25

Mohammedanism, progress of, 33, 109, 200

Mopti, on the Niger, 123, 156, 157, 158 to 170, 171, 173, 175, 176

Mopti, King of, 159, 160

Monoroues, stern-wheelers, 142

Moorish occupation, 224, 229, 230, 239

Moors in Western Soudan, 74, 107, 108, 109, 131, 239, 244

Morocco, 225, 227, 228, 325, 331

Mosques, 230, 244

at Djenné, 153

Mosquitoes, 96

Mossis, 192

Mouyidir in the Sahara, 314, 315

Musa, my Hausa cook, 236, 285, 287, 288, 289, 297, 304, 313, 316, 327, 328

Musa-Benaïsch, 330

Music of natives, 54

Nafadié, 103

Niafounké, 110, 141, 173, 177, 178, 179, 182, 185, 191, 222

Niandan, River, 70, 71

Niangaye, Lake, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 215, 216, 218, 219

Niansumana, 76

Niéger, Captain, 322, 323

Niger, Middle, 17, 67, 134, 157, 159, 171, 172, 179, 200, 219, 222, 229, 240, 244, 251, 276, 318, 328, 339

Niger, navigation of, 70, 73, 122, 134, 135, 136

Niger, sources of, 36, 46

Upper, 17, 51, 56, 63, 70, 77, 89, 90, 92, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 107, 109, 110, 111, 115, 118, 132, 135, 172, 244

Niger Valley, 18, 327

Nightjar, standard-winged, 41

Night marching in the Sahara, 264, 300

Nioro, Western Soudan, 140

Oases of the Sahara, 268, 315, 316, 317, 328, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 340

Obb, Commandant, 223

Odienné, Ivory Coast, 82, 85

Ophthalmia in the desert, 308

Oribis, 60, 110

Oriole, the golden, 39

Ornaments, native, 77, 123

Oryx, white (leucoryx), 265, 284

Ostriches, 132, 182, 183, 218

Ostrich farm, Middle Niger, 182, 183

Othman, a guide, 297, 298, 312, 313, 316

Ouargla oasis, 323, 332, 333, 334, 335

Oued Mya, 332, 333, 340

Oueds in the Sahara, 242, 265, 268, 274, 290, 328, 330

Ouillimiden Tuaregs, 253, 272

Oysters in Lake Dhebo, 173

Palm-wine drinking, 50

Pasturage in the Sahara, 253, 257, 260, 291, 320, 328, 330, 332

Pelicans on Lake Niangaye, 218

Pendembu railway terminus, 19, 22

a night at, 26

Pigeon, varieties of, 40, 148

Plantain-eater, violet, 38

Poro secret society, 29, 30, 31, 44

Potters at work in the “Bend” of the Niger, 185

Presents to natives, 97, 98

Rahla, a riding saddle, 296

Railway, Algerian, 311, 336, 337, 338, 339

French Guinea, 63, 64, 130

Oran, 323

Senegal and Niger, 120, 129, 130, 133, 161

Sierra Leone, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

Trans-Saharan, 339

Rapids on the Niger, 136, 137, 241

Reed-buck, Bohor, 221

Réné Caillé, 141, 228

Reservoir of Lake Dhebo, 172, 173

Rice-growing, 111, 157, 192, 202, 243

mill at Mopti, 161, 162

Rio del Oro, 325

Roads in French Guinea, 53, 54, 75, 107, 111

in Sierra Leone, 35, 36

in Western Soudan, 122, 161

Rubber vine, 62, 74

trade, 74, 75, 115

Saddle of native horses, 188, 189

Saddles, camel, 248, 275, 295, 296

Sahara, edge of the, 178, 193, 242, 252, 256, 272, 290, 325

Central, 266, 280, 310, 316, 317, 321, 325, 339

journey across, 17, 248, 249, 307

languages of the, 19

vegetation of the, 290, 291, 292, 300, 331

Salt caravans, 202, 230

mines of the Sahara, 74, 307

Salutations, native, 145

Samory, King, 67, 68, 69, 91

Sand-banks, 70, 145, 237

-dunes, 239, 319, 331, 334

-flies, 96, 149

-grouse, 178, 218

-storms in the desert, 288, 289, 302, 303, 306, 321

Sankaran, plains of, 46, 48, 51

Sankarani River, 78, 85, 90, 91, 95, 99, 101

Sansanding, on the Niger, 151, 152, 153

Saraféré, 173, 187, 191, 192, 193, 195, 197, 201, 203, 207

Sarafinian, Customs post, 48

Scorpion, incident at Bo with, 24

Sébi, the haunt of lion, 187, 201

Ségou, on the Niger, 149, 150, 151, 152

Senafou, a native of, 90

Senegal River, 74, 107, 110, 129, 132, 150, 233, 234

navigation of, 129

haartebeest, 204, 205, 206, 208

Seriamou, 220

Sétif, Algeria, 339

Shea-butter tree, 116, 117

Sheep of the Niger, 156, 180, 238

of the Sahara, 256, 273, 289, 290

Shi, tree of, 116

Sibo, Niger Valley, 184

Sierra Leone, Colony of, 17, 245

railway of, 19

Siguiri district, 75, 97, 101, 104, 111

Sikasso, Upper Senegal and Niger Colony, 144, 159

Sirocco, 230

Slavery in French Guinea, 58

among the Arabs, 327, 328

Smuggling on Sierra Leone border, 48

Sofas of King Samory, 67, 68, 92

Sohré, caste of, 57

Sokolo, Western Soudan, 140

Sokrar, camel driver, 333

Sonrhais of the Niger, 154, 186, 192, 221, 222, 227, 229, 236, 237, 238, 244, 272, 277

Sotuba, rapids of, 137

Spears as a native arm, 209, 271

St. Louis, Senegal Colony, 129, 161

Stone Age in the Sahara, 277

Suk, a charm of the Mendis, 29

Sun spectacles, use of, 267, 270, 271

Susu native as my cook, 18

people, 64

Tademayt, plateau of, 330

Tamanrasset, 325

Tanezrouft of the Sahara, 245, 279, 287, 294, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 306, 310, 311, 315, 326, 327

Tango-Maré, 219

Taoundert, 285, 287

Taudény, salt mines, 230, 240

Tea, Arabic, 283

Teal, 218, 240

grey, 175, 190, 204

Telegraph, electric, 239, 246

Telegraphy, native, 76

Telemsi, “Oued” or “Wad,” 242, 265

Tell, the country of, 326

Tellak, a camel dagger, 271

Tellis, a camel bag, 319

Temacheq, Tuareg language, 272, 313, 326

Tembiko River, 36

Tembikunda Mountains, 34, 42, 156, 172, 240, 241

Tennis at Koulikoro, 135

Tide on Lake Niangaye, 205

Tidikelt, 315, 317

Timbuctu, 17, 69, 110, 121, 125, 135, 141, 151, 164, 167, 176, 177, 179, 191, 195, 202, 217, 220, 222, 223, 243, 272

Timissao, 297, 298, 299, 300

Tindéran, wells of, 263, 264, 265

Tinsida, in the “Bend” of the Niger, 216

Tirailleurs, Senegalese, 251

Tirik, Jibal el, 297

Tit, Touat oasis, 322, 323

Tobacco-growing in Western Soudan, 149

Tobacco, its value to travellers, 28, 283

Tombola, 104, 106, 109

Tondibi, 243

Tosaye, defile of, 241, 242, 243

Touat oasis, 282, 322, 330, 340

Touggourt, 323, 335, 336

Trade in French West Africa 73, 74, 75, 108, 130, 161

Trapping game in Guinea, 62

Tribal marks, 90

Tripoli, 228, 318, 331

Trypansomiasis, 33, 140

Tsetse fly, where met, 32, 140

Tuaregs of the Sahara, 19, 192, 202, 219, 224, 229, 238, 240, 253, 263, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 283, 287, 289, 310, 316, 325, 326

Tunisia, 230, 340

Tusks of elephants, 214

Twins, custom of killing, 45

Upper Senegal and Niger Colony, 110, 120

Lieut. Governor of, 126, 127

Vedette, a Niger launch, 142

Villages, Fulani, 190, 191

Wagadugu, town of, 192

Wart-hog in French Soudan, 162, 163, 164, 167, 179, 184

Wasulu country for sport, 56, 60, 75, 80, 82, 83, 84, 89, 90, 95, 96

Waterbuck in the Niger Basin, 59, 81, 184

Waterfowl on the Niger, 70, 148, 172, 174, 175, 184

Water, means of transporting, 249, 250

Water-skins in the desert, 249, 267, 273, 275, 294, 295, 308, 309, 316

Wells in the Sahara, 225, 249, 250, 253, 254, 257, 263, 264, 267, 273, 274, 282, 284, 285, 297, 298, 299, 307, 315, 316, 331, 332, 333, 335, 340

Wheat, African, 228, 234, 338

White ants in Africa, 167, 168

Widow weaver, a bird of West Africa, 41

Winds of the Niger, 176

Winds in the desert, 192

Winds on Lake Niangaye, 205

Wool-making on the Niger, 181

Yakubu, a character at Timbuctu, 226, 227

Yellimamis, caste of, 57

Yonni tramway, 22

Zaberma, 236

Zariba for lion, 179

Zinder, on the Niger, 253

Zmeila, wells of, 333

Map showing the Route of Captain Haywood’s Journey

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