Chapter XII (3)

Nganye, a Niam-niam chieftain, i. 436;
visit to, i. 431;
his family, i. 450;
stay with, ii. 243.

Ngoly, i. 428; ii. 263.

Ngudoroo, the river, ii. 388.

Ngulfala, distillery in, i. 238; ii. 403.

NIAM-NIAM: first sight of, i. 189;
start to their country, i. 416;
their huts, i. 449;
their chiefs, i. 467;
modesty of the women, i. 471;
morning toilette, i. 491;
names of, ii. 3;
their country, ii. 3;
their appearance, ii. 5;
clothing, ii. 6;
head-gear, ii. 7;
decorations, ii. 8;
trumbashes, ii. 9;
weapons, ii. 10;
hunting and agriculture, ii. 12;
beer, ii. 13;
pipes, ii. 14;
dogs, ii. 15, 241;
architecture, ii. 20;
chieftains, ii. 21;
emblems of war, ii. 23;
handicraft, ii. 25;
greetings, ii. 27;
marriages and conjugal affection, ii. 28;
music, ii. 29;
dialect, ii. 31;
auguries, ii. 32;
superstition and treatment of dead, ii. 34;
attack by, ii. 236;
value as slaves, ii. 419.

Nile-boats, crowded, i. 50; ii. 478.

Nilometer, proposed, i. 41.

No, Lake, i. 111, 112.

Nsewne, the Akka, ii. 132;
his love of mischief, ii. 144.

NUBIANS: their pitiable condition, i. 41;
their superstitions, i. 49; ii. 322;
how to deal with them, i. 421;
their inconsistency, ii. 165;
their dislike to pure water, ii. 275;
soldiers, i. 176.

Nueir, district of the, i. 117;
their habits, i. 119.

Nyemata, Mount, i. 67.

Nyitti, i. 251.

_Nymphæa stellata and N. lotus_, i. 114.

O-BONGO, ii. 135.

Oil palm, ii. 89;
oil from, ii. 92.

O-mareg, summer retreat from Suakin, i. 31.

Ombet (dragon-tree), i. 22.

Ori, Dr., letter to Antinori, ii. 80;
his death, ii. 486.

Oysters, river, ii. 452.

PAPYRUS, i. 109;
at the Kyt, i. 126.

Parkia-trees, ii. 339.

Parley with Niam-niam chiefs, ii. 169.

_Parra africanus_, i. 136.

Parrots, grey, ii. 9.

Peneeo, the behnky, i. 436.

Penicillaria, i. 248.

Pepper, cayenne, i. 253;
malaghetta, i. 468;
Ashantee, ii. 382.

Petherick, i. 127.

Piaggia, his visit to the Niam-niam, i. 434, 504;
inquiries about, i. 480; ii. 56;
his lake, ii. 65.

Pillen-wasp (_Eumenes tinctor_), i. 321.

Plantains, i. 198; ii. 87, 88.

_Platycerium elephantotis_, i. 538.

_Plotus melanogaster_, i. 114.

_Polopterus bichir_, i. 135, 232.

Poncet, the brothers, contract with the government, i. 382;
their settlement, i. 393.

Pongo, the river, ii. 344.

Popukky grass, i. 437, 447.

Port Rek, i. 125; ii. 467.

Posts, memorial, i. 517.

Pushyoh, a Treculia, i. 528.

Pygmies: my incredulity about, i. 68;
exchange a dog for a pygmy, ii. 67;
stories about, ii. 153.
(_Vide_ Akka.)

_Python Sebæ_, killed near Fashoda, i. 83;
and antelope killed together, i. 364.

QUININE, i. 128;
value of, i. 323.

RAINFALL, ii. 281.

_Raphia vinifera_, i. 199;
used for building, ii. 42.

Rats, ii. 405.

Red Sea, voyage on, i. 11;
heat on, i. 15;
nights on, i. 18.

Reed-rats, ii. 384;
hunting, ii. 408, 446.

Reggo, i. 392.

Rek, Port, i. 125; ii. 467.

Rhinoceros-bird (_Tetmoceras abyssinicus_), ii. 205.

Rice, i. 247.

Riharn, my cook, i. 60, 486; ii. 204.

Rikkete, Wando’s brother, i. 479;
entertaining, i. 486;
visit to, i. 487;
his wives, i. 489.

Roah, the river, i. 367.

Rock rabbits, i. 385.

Rohl, the river, i. 376, 401.

Rokko-coats of Monbuttoo, ii. 104.

Rokooba, ii. 289.

Roway, salt-works at, i. 16.

Rye, the river, i. 448.

SABBY (Seriba), i. 337, 340; ii. 264.

Sablook, i. 40.

Salt-works at Cape Roway, i. 16.

Sarcocephalus, i. 192.

Schweinfurthia, i. 35.

Scorbutic attack, ii. 381.

Scorpions, ii. 456.

Seebehr Rahama, ii. 329;
his Seriba, ii. 354;
his court, ii. 361;
departure from, ii. 374.

Sehre, ii. 395, 397, 401.

Seriba, i. 47;
Ghattas’s, i. 172;
destruction of a, i. 225;
law, i. 226;
controllers of, ii. 426;
Shereefee’s, i. 340.

Sesame, i. 229.

Seyleb (_Sanseviera_), i. 22.

Shary, identity with the Welle, i. 553.

Shekka, ii. 370.

Shereefee, his Seriba Duggoo, i. 343;
his Seriba Dogguddoo, i. 344;
dearth in his Seribas. ii. 267;
attacks Mohammed, ii. 85;
shielded by the Aga, ii. 358.

SHILLOOKS: first sight of, i. 72;
statistics, i. 85;
their villages, i. 87;
their animals, i. 91;
pursuit by, i. 101;
market, i. 101; ii. 471.

Shipbuilding in Khartoom, i. 51.

Shol, the Dinka queen, i. 141;
her riches and influence, i. 131;
her appearance, i. 132;
presents to, i. 134;
her death, ii. 338;
remains of her huts, ii. 469.

Shoosh-grass (_Panicum turgidum_), i. 53.

Short rations, ii. 196.

Singat, i. 24.

Skins, abundance of, i. 481.

Skulls, purchase of, ii. 54;
in Berlin Museum, ii. 32.

Slaves crowded in boats, i. 50; ii. 478;
as payment to soldiers, i. 175;
dying of starvation, i. 346;
feeding a caravan of, i. 368;
complaints of female, i. 390;
cruelty to, ii. 414;
price of, ii. 418;
comparative value of, ii. 419;
number of, ii. 420;
as soldiers, ii. 421;
private, ii. 422;
employed in husbandry, ii. 425;
treatment in Egypt, ii. 436;
on board the Nile boat, ii. 470;
at Wod Shellay, ii. 480;
confiscation of, ii. 483.

Slave-dealer from Tunis, i. 189.

Slave-trade: independent of ivory trade, i. 46;
population of Bongo-land diminished by, i. 260;
tacitly acknowledged, i. 381;
all enterprises involved in, i. 383;
flourishing in 1870 and 1871, ii. 410;
sources of, ii. 428;
abolition of, ii. 433;
measures taken in Fanekama against, ii. 478.

Slave-traders: iniquity of, i. 190;
rendezvous at Shekka for, ii. 370;
goods bartered by, ii. 411;
description of, ii. 412;
risks incurred by, ii. 415;
hospitality shown to, ii. 416;
classes of, ii. 417.

Smelting-furnaces: of the Dyoor, i. 207;
of the Bongo, i. 208, 278.

Sobat, the river, i. 100.

_Soirée musicale_ of the Bongo, i. 354.

Soldiers: Nubian, i. 176;
black, i. 483.

Soliman, son of Kurshook Ali, ii. 452.

Solar phenomenon, i. 326.

Solongoh, ii. 389.

Sorghum, i. 245; ii. 252.

Sources of slave-trade, ii. 428.

Sparmannia, ii. 200.

Speke, i. 113, 319; ii. 126.

_Spiro streptus_, i. 214.

Squirrels (_Sciurus leucumbrinus_), i. 387.

Steps counted in walking, ii. 300.

Sterculia, ii. 393.

Steudner, Dr., i. 129;
death of, ii. 337.

Suæda (samphire), i. 17.

Suakin, sea-route to, i. 10;
excursion from, i. 19;
return to, ii. 488.

Suez, blunders in telegram, i. 7;
scenes in governor’s divan, i. 8, 9;
canal, i. 10.

Sugar-canes, i. 547.

Sulphur-works at Gimsah, i. 12.

Sun, eclipse of, i. 11.

Suppression of slave-trade, suggestions for, ii. 439.

Surroor, Aboo Sammat’s lieutenant, i. 465;
his mbanga, i. 470;
speaks Arabic, i. 473.

Swamp-men, i. 119.

Sway, the river, identical with the Dyoor, i. 453;
crossing the, ii. 228.

Swords, ii. 457.

TAKE, village of, i. 145; ii. 467.

Telegram, i. 7; ii. 482.

Terminalia, i. 426.

Thibaud, ii. 482.

Tikkitikki, ii. 133;
parting from friends, ii. 149;
successful shooting, ii. 278, 450;
illness and death, ii. 486.

Tinné, Miss, fatality of expedition, i. 129;
her headquarters, ii. 332;
her mother, ii. 338.

Tobacco, i. 160, 214, 254, 269; ii. 14, 87.

Tokkuls, i. 178.

Tombo, king, i. 480.

Tondy, the river, i. 181;
passage over, i. 336;
suspension-bridge over, ii. 43, 44;
crossing the, ii. 269.

Transport, means of, i. 139; ii. 305;
suggestion for, ii. 307.

Travelling costume, i. 425.

_Troglodytes niger_, i. 519.

Trumbash, i. 441; ii. 9.

Trumpet-tree, ii. 157.

Tubers, i. 250, 268, 445.

Tudyee, the river, i. 366, 426.

Tuhamy, arrival of, i. 542;
his Seriba, ii. 201, 209.

Turks, ii. 359.

_Urostigma Kotschyana_, ii. 88;
bast of, ii. 102.

_Usnea_ (beard-moss), i. 26.

Uzze, the river, i. 477.

VALISNERIA, in the Gazelle, i. 123.

Vasel, ii. 485.

Vayssière, the French hunter, i. 185.

Vegetation of Nile displaced by civilization, i. 69.

Viceroy, _bon mot_ of, i. 113;
small power of, ii. 441.

_Victoria regia_, attempt to naturalize, i. 121.

Vine, wild, ii. 234.

_Vivera genetta_, i. 490.

WANDO: animosity of, i. 482;
river of, i. 496;
Mohammed’s interview with, i. 501, 504;
his nonchalance, i. 505;
his present of food, i. 511;
his augury, ii. 33, 49.

Watches, ii. 299.

Water, bad, ii. 400.

—— -birds, ii. 315.

—— -lilies, i. 114.

—— -plants, i. 121.

—— -shed of Nile, i. 494.

Welle, the river, i. 548, 554.

White-ants: their hills, i. 120;
of the trees, i. 539;
as food, ii. 197.

White Nile, embarkation on, i. 49.

Widow-ducks, i. 121.

Wild boar shot, i. 363.

Wod Shellay, i. 56; ii. 480.

Wounds, Mittoo treatment of, i. 371;
by arrows, ii. 279;
Dyoor treatment of, ii. 334.

Wow, the Seriba, i. 91.

Wow, the river, i. 190; ii. 333.

YABO, i. 476.

Yabongo, i. 476; ii. 193.

Yams, i. 250.

Yanga’s grave, i. 285.

Yolo-antelopes, ii. 446.

Yubbo, the river, i. 478; ii. 192.

Yumma, Kurshook Ali’s Vokeel, ii. 384, 389.

Yuroo, i. 531.

ZAWA-TREES, i. 447; ii. 200.

Zebra-ichneumon, i. 358.

Zileï Mountains, ii. 210.

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