Seventeen trips through Somáliland / A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893

by H. G. C. Swayne

INDEX

• Abadigal, Banagúsé’s headman, [166]
• Abbárso camp, [101]
• Abbasgúl, [122], [136], [195];
• raided by Habr Awal, [195]
• Abdul Ishák, [88]
• Abdul Káder, [131], [217], [220], [221], [229]
• Abonsa in the Harar Highlands, [138]
• Abósa, [143]
• Abud, Captain, [15], [19];
• at Hargeisa, [259]
• Abyssinians, [230], [267], [279];
• threaten to attack Hargeisa, [101];
• leader, Banagúsé, [111];
• scouting for, [126];
• soldiers seize our men and camels, [147];
• and the Esa tribe, [149];
• threaten to attack author’s party, [167];
• general, [167];
• raids, [168], [169];
• dealings with foreigners, [182];
• ambition, power, influence, [183]
• Adad thorn bushes, [208], [370]
• Adadleh, [291]
• Adan Yusuf, caravan leader, [156], [165], [202]
• Aden, [257], [291];
• garrison, [78]
• Adone, [23], [223], [224], [227], [276]
• Ahmed Abdalla, Sultán, [138]
• Ain Valley, [93]
• Alaka Gobau Desta, [178]
• Alakud or klipspringer, [318]
• Aleyadéra nala, [121]
• Ali Hirsi, author’s hunter, [79], [299]
• Ali Maan, [115], [158]
• Allegiri tribe, [94]
• Aloe plants, [13]
• Aloes and thorn jungle, ruins rise from, [95]
• Amáden, [228]
• Amhára or Abyssinians, [201], [204], [227]
• Amháric letter from Rás Makunan, [152]
• Ammodorcas clarkei, [310]
• Antelopes, [298]
• Ant-hills, [102], [306]
• Aoul gazelle, description of, [314]
• Arab salutation “Salaam aleikum,” [9];
• immigrations, [21];
• pony taken from Bombay as experiment by author, [131]
• Arabian trotting camel, author’s, [165]
• Arasama, sub-tribe of Dolbahanta, [93], [96]
• Armadader aloe undergrowth, [111]
• Armo creeper, [49], [247], [371];
• food of elephants, [70]
• Aror, [126]
• Arregéd, a deep ravine in Bur Dab Range, [96]
• Arroweilo, [27]
• Arroweilo legend, [26], [27]
• Arrto; loss of Count Porro’s expedition, [152]
• Arussi Gállas, [223], [230], [263]
• Assa Range, [41]
• Au Ismail, [133]
• Aukál, or elders, [81]
• Aulihán Somális, [210], [267], [273], [307];
• country, [326]
• Au Mahomed Sufi, the Somáli Sheikh, [128]
• Awálé Yasin injured, [158]
• Awáré, [283]
• Ayyal Yunis traders, [164]
• Ba (tribal collective prefix), [20];
• Awal, [20];
• Habr, [20];
• Gailoh, [20];
• Ambaro (or sons of Ambaro), [21];
• Gadabursi elders, [79], [84]
• Baboons, [143], [249], [273], [327]
• Badgers, [329]
• Badwein (Big Tank) in the Dolbahanta country, [27];
• march to, [95]
• Bahgoba camels stolen, [113]
• Baira antelope described, [321]
• Bakáwa, ascent of, [97]
• Baker, Sir Samuel, [116]
• Banagúsé, Abyssinian general, [120], [142], [165];
• his history, [169];
• threatens to arrest author, [165];
• is beaten in the game, [167]
• Ban-ki-Aror Plain, [122]
• Banyéro Mountain, [249], [251]
• Barkad Gerád, [95]
• Basha-Basha, Abyssinian general, [130], [177];
• reported killed, [278]
• Baudi, Captain, [210], [224]
• Beads, [281], [347]
• Bér, [92];
• return to, [97]
• Berbera, [2], [223], [257], [361];
• start from, [45], [259];
• Maritime Plain, [51];
• taken over by British Government, [75]
• Bergéli, [93]
• Bertiri tribe, [20], [120], [136], [142], [167]
• Billeil, [194], [207], [289], [370]
• Birds on the Wagar Mountains, [98];
• varieties of, [328]
• Biyo-Kabóba, Abyssinian fort, [114], [152]
• Blood-feud, [14]
• Blood-money, [13]
• Boh, our Esa guide, [151]
• Boho, [83]
• Bohol-Káwulu, [113]
• Bombay Infantry sepoys, [86]
• Bombós, [122]
• Bone-setting by the Somális, [159]
• Botanical collection lost, [277]
• Bottigo, Captain, [222]
• Bottor Valley, [111]
• British influence, effect of, [118]
• Bubalis swaynei, first shot, [100]
• Buffalo, [228], [273], [274], [326];
• tracks of, [272]
• Buk Gégo, [116]
• Bulhár, [55], [78], [116], [299], [363];
• under Mr. Morrison’s charge, [81];
• burnt to the ground, [121];
• march to, [156]
• Bur Dab Range, [90], [92], [295]
• Burka, [265], [307]
• Bur’o, [92]
• Burton, Sir Richard, his first expedition to Somáliland, [78]
• Burton’s book, First Footsteps in East Africa, [102], [181]
• Bushbuck, [262], [268], [273], [277];
• description of, [308]
• Bustards, [328]
• Cabul tents, [185], [341]
• Cahaigne, Taurin, Monseigneur, [24], [181]
• Camelman scared, [93]
• Camels, [8], [13], [29], [30], [32], [33];
• varieties of, [33];
• buying and selling, [224], [346];
• meat, [113];
• killed by hyæna, [205];
• load for, [336]
• Camera and outfit, [343], [345]
• Candeo, Signor, [210], [224]
• Caravans, [2], [38];
• our caravan imprisoned, [144]
• Carrington’s, Colonel, expedition, [157]
• Caves at Jebel Hákim, [184]
• Cecchi, Signor, Italian Consul-General, [156], [181]
• Cedar forests explored, [98]
• Centipedes, [329]
• Clarke’s gazelle, [241], [310]
• Clarke, T. W. H., [91]
• Climate of Somáliland, [371]
• Clothes suitable for Somáliland, [345]
• Cobus ellipsiprymnus, [307]
• Cowasjee Dinshaw Brothers, [346]
• Crocodiles, [262], [263], [277], [326]
• Curteis, Colonel R., [139]
• Czetwertynski, Boris, Prince, [5], [29]
• Daar-Áss Mountain, [253], [254], [255]
• Daba Jérissa, [282]
• Dagaha Todobálla, or “the Rock of the Seven Robbers,” [243]
• Dagahbúr in Ogádén, [27], [137], [212]
• Daghatto Valley, [205], [206], [209], [230]
• Dágo stops our caravan, [144]
• Dair (October, November, December), [37], [276]
• Dambaswerer in the Rer Amáden country, [217], [222], [229]
• Damel Plain, [55];
• sight elephants, [63]
• Danakil tribe, [278]
• Darémo, [124]
• Dárud, [20]
• Daud Gerhajis, [21]
• Daura reports death of Awálé Yasín, [158];
• and the rhinoceros, [199];
• his tragic death, [238]
• Delamere, Lord, [259]
• Denleh, [210]
• Deria Hassan, my gunbearer, [74], [199]
• Deria Shiré, son of important elder of Shiré Shirmáki, [86]
• Dhows, [37]
• Dibáltig, open recognition of the authority of a sultan, etc., [15], [104];
• in our honour, [129], [220], [240]
• Dibatag, or Clarke’s gazelle, description of, [309]
• Dibiri-Wein country, [158]
• Digan, [157]
• Digwein, [295], [296]
• Dik-Dik antelopes described, [319]
• Dímis, [89]
• Division of classes in Somáliland, [4]
• Dobóya, [122]
• Dofaré, march to, [139]
• Dól, or bushbuck, [262], [308]
• Dólababa, [236]
• Dolbahanta tribe, [20], [21];
• country—reconnoitre trade routes, [90]
• Donkeys, [3], [35];
• killed by lion, [285]
• Dubár, [90]
• Dubbi Harré, Arussi Gálla chief, [265], [276]
• Dubbur, [91], [138]
• Dubburro, [139]
• Ducks, [189]
• Dúd Libah, or the “Lion’s Forest,” [236]
• Durhi, [202], [204], [205], [210], [236]
• Durr, [124], [200], [214], [240];
• grass, [284]
• E⸺ (Captain E. J. E. Swayne), [90]
• Eagles, [328]
• Egyptians evacuate Somáli coast, [78]
• Eidegalla tribe, [15], [21], [41], [241], [283]
• Eil Ánod, [85]
• Eil Bhai, [142]
• Eil Dab (rocky well), [94]
• Eil-ki-Gabro, [203]
• Eilo, a mountain in the Gadabursi country near Zeila, [10]
• Eil Sheikh, [82], [84], [85], [89], [157]
• Elephant, looking for tracks, [47];
• feeding, [52];
• method of hunting by natives, [116]
• Elephants (Maródi), [46], [55], [60], [111], [115], [205];
• at Jalélo, [56];
• shooting, Hembeweina river, [59];
• height of one at shoulder shot at, [58], [76];
• sight herd of sixty, [60];
• death of the big cow, [64];
• a wounded bull, [67];
• feeding on armo creeper, [73];
• in the Daghatto Valley, [206];
• description of, [209], [294]
• Élinta Kaddo, [140]
• Elmas Mountain, [80], [157]
• Emir Abdillahi, [119]
• Enleh, [211], [213]
• Equus grévyi, [204];
• description of, [322];
• nubianus, description of, [322]
• Esa insist they are British subjects, [149]
• Esa tribe, [10], [20], [24], [41], [115], [152];
• country entered by author, [115]
• Esmán Abdi seized by leopard, [162]
• Ethnology, [1]
• Expeditions, fitting out, [331];
• expenses, [346]
• Exports of Somáliland, [376]
• Fáf in Ogádén, [38]
• Fáfan river, [259]
• Farur Gerád Hirsi, [172]
• Felter, Signor, [178], [181], [185]
• Feyambiro, [177];
• on the road to, [185]
• Fitting out expeditions, [331]
• Flowers at Tawáwur, [98]
• Fodwein Bluff, [90]
• Foxes, [233], [329]
• French sphere of influence, [77], [153]
• Frogs, [199]
• Gabba Oboho, the Adone chief, [224], [226], [258]
• Gabratagli, an Abyssinian agent of Menelek, [167], [169], [177]
• Gabriel Guigniony, [181]
• Gadabursi tribe, [20], [24], [34], [116];
• country, [25], [295];
• start for, [112];
• author leaves the country, [115]
• Gadfly, [240], [329]
• Gadíd, a man born at noon, [21]
• Gagáb wells, [282]
• Gaha Pass, [42]
• Gálla graves, [26];
• cairns, [94];
• history, [181];
• country, [210]
• Gállaland, project to explore, [155], [258], [276]
• Gállas, [8], [22], [23], [223], [228], [230], [259], [272], [276]
• Gán Libah, [99], [241], [243]
• Garabad, [205], [206], [210]
• Garasleh stream, [152]
• Garba-aleh pool, [202], [203]
• Garbadir, [253]
• Garodki Mayagód, [124]
• Gáshán, or shield, [10]
• “Gáshánbúr,” or “brothers of the shield,” [21]
• Gáwa Pass, [25]
• Gazella sœmmeringi, [314];
• spekei, [316];
• pelzelni, [317]
• Gebili, pass through, [111]
• Gédi or march, [21]
• Géli, author’s gunbearer, [132], [156], [189], [243], [283]
• Geographical names, [373]
• Gerasmatch, or General of the Left, [178]
• Gerenúk, see [Waller’s Gazelle]
• Géri tribe, [20], [113], [136]
• Geríré Gállas, [156], [263]
• Gerlogubi, in distant Ogádén, [78], [138]
• German mission station, [22];
• missionaries, [22]
• Gildessa, [75], [148];
• exciting time at, [144]
• Gilimiss, [261]
• Giraffe, [228], [326]
• Goats, [36]
• Gób trees eighty feet high, [127]
• Gobau Desta sent to Gildessa to meet author, [152];
• reads Sir R. Burton’s book to Rás, [181]
• Gojar under Gureis Mountain, [168], [170]
• Golbánti on the Tana river, [22]
• Gólis Range, [3], [46], [55], [90], [241], [244], [365]
• Gol Wiyileh, or the “Valley of Rhinoceroses,” [200]
• Goose shot, [142]
• Gosaweina, [96]
• Government explorations, [77]
• Graphic exhibited to natives, [201]
• Grasses, [124]
• Grave of a chief, [126]
• Graves, [21], [25];
• description of, [93]
• Greater koodoo shooting at Mandeira, [242];
• description of, [302]
• Grevy’s zebra, [204], [312]
• Gu (May and June), [36], [230]
• Guban, [55], [244], [294], [307], [316];
• or Lowland gazelle, [317]
• Gudá timber, [55], [115], [243], [244], [255]
• Gudaweina, [125]
• Guigniony, M., a French merchant, [181]
• Guinea-fowl, [244], [282], [328]
• Gulanleh, [55], [56], [59], [72]
• Guldu Hamed, mullah village at Upper Sheikh, [25], [91]
• Gumbur Dúg Hill, [140], [164]
• Gumbur Wedel Hill, [133]
• Gum-pickers, [216]
• Gurgi, [2]
• Gypsum rock, [92]
• Habr (tribal collective prefix), [20]
• Habr Awal, [20], [24], [77], [87], [127];
• Gerhajis, [20], [21], [41], [53], [79], [86], [88], [127];
• Toljaala, [20], [77], [91];
• march through the country, [97], [211]
• Haddáma, [134]
• Hadji Adan, our Esa guide, [151], [277]
• Hádo, a visit to, by author, [173], [186]
• Haga (July, August, September), [37], [121];
• wind, [121]
• Haines or Shabéleh river, [222]
• Halal, [218]
• Haljíd, [211];
• march to, [199]
• Haraf, four miles from Hargeisa, [121], [139]
• Harar, [2], [22], [223], [295];
• captured by Abyssinians, [119];
• visited by author, [177]
• Harasáwa Valley, description of, [114]
• Hares, [329]
• Hargeisa in the Habr Awal country, [4], [7], [17], [55], [121], [139], [211];
• description of town, [100]
• Harrawa Valley, [25]
• Harris, W. B., [23]
• Harrison, Captain, [139]
• Hartebeest, new variety first shot, [100];
• vast herds of, [102], [122], [142], [163], [172];
• description of, [305]
• Harka-weina, [247]
• Hassádan trees, seventy feet high, [98], [370]
• Hassan, my gunbearer, [20], [156]
• Haud, [39], [284], [298], [367];
• Plateau crossed, [122], [129], [291]
• Hegebo, near Berbera, [364]
• Helmók Valley, [175]
• Hemál, under the Bur Ad Range, [115];
• journey from, to Ali Maan, [116]
• Hembeweina river at Jalélo, [56], [59], [69]
• Henweina Valley, [247], [252], [253]
• Hérios, or camel-mats, [346]
• Hippopotami, [228], [268], [326]
• Hug, in the mountainous Jibril Abokr country, [26]
• Huguf Pass, [97]
• Hulkabóba, shooting camp, [45]
• Hunting leopard or chitah, [281]
• Hussein-bin-Khalaf of Karanleh, [260]
• Hussein Debeli, my head tracker, sees elephant, [57]
• Hyænas, [193], [202], [203], [240], [261], [275], [281], [286];
• stabbed by author, [195];
• description of, [325]
• Ibrahim, author’s servant, speared through his hand, [181]
• Ibrahim Gúri has camels, sheep, etc., stolen by Abyssinians, [173]
• “Ideal” camera, [166]
• Imé on the Webbe, [137], [210], [211], [221], [223], [258];
• author’s visit to, [222], [225]
• Imports of Somáliland, [376]
• Ingrés (or English), [204]
• Insects, [98], [329]
• Ishák tribes, [20], [26]
• Ismail, [20]
• Issutugan river-bed, [55];
• river, [56], [78], [294]
• Italian sphere of influence, [78]
• Instruments (scientific), [353]
• Jackals, [329]
• Jaléo, [56]
• Jáma, my hunter, sitting on the dead lioness, [106];
• Deria, the minstrel of the Rer Amáden, [217], [261]
• James, F. L., his exploring party, [78], [222], [229], [295], [368]
• Jarso, [169], [184]
• Jebel Hakim visited, [182];
• wonderful caves, [184]
• Jeráto Pass, [88], [241], [243]
• Jibril Abokr, sub-tribe of Habr Awal, [24], [41], [90], [98], [120], [243]
• Jibúti, French port, [149], [182]
• Jig-Jiga, [111], [120], [165], [170], [186], [187], [211]
• Jilál (January to April), [36], [163], [191]
• Jilib, or family, [21]
• Jopp, General, Resident at Aden, [181]
• Jowári, [100], [226], [228], [260]
• Juba river, [228];
• sources, [155], [228], [258]
• Júk, [163]
• Kabri Bahr, waterless march to, [157]
• Kalíl season, [37], [163]
• Kanyasmatch Basha-Basha, [176]
• Karam, [97]
• Karanleh on the Webbe, [22], [228], [259], [269]
• Karia, or temporary village, [2]
• Karin Marda, [174]
• Kásin Ishák clan, [88]
• Khansa bushes, or umbrella mimósa, [4], [124], [157], [208], [233], [287], [370]
• Kheidub-Ayéyu, [126]
• Khoda Bux, [80]
• Kirrit, [26];
• well reached, [92]
• Kites, [328]
• Klipspringer, [54], [318]
• Kondurá, [174]
• Koodoo shooting, [47], [116], [204], [241], [246];
• description of, [302]
• Koran, [17];
• given to natives, [202];
• price of, [354]
• Kumá (Who are you?), [196]
• Kuredelli in the Jerer Valley, [188], [195], [196]
• Lámu, [23]
• Las Damel, [205]
• Lee-Metford rifle, [214], [282]
• Leopards, [95], [160], [209];
• first one shot, [100];
• stalking a goat in our camp, [101];
• sport with, [160], [281];
• one seizes Esmán Abdi, [162];
• sitting up for one, [165];
• seizes gazelle and is shot, [198];
• jumps into camp, [202];
• killed at Garba-aleh pool, [203];
• description of, [323]
• Lesser koodoo, [54], [121], [204], [277];
• in the Jerer Valley, [199];
• description of, [303]
• Lions, [124], [205], [218], [279], [284];
• killed by the Midgáns, [4];
• tracks of, [54];
• roaring of, awake us, [68];
• stalking herds of antelope, [103];
• wounds author, [105];
• fine one killed by E⸺, [109];
• haunts of, [123];
• sleeping ten yards from author, [129];
• tracking and shooting of one by author, [233];
• seizes sleeping woman, [204];
• exciting hunt, [234];
• attack on a man, [278];
• finest one shot, [288];
• length of skin, [236], [288];
• description of, [292]
• Lioness doing sentry, [284]
• Lithocranius walleri described, [312]
• Lizards, [329]
• Locusts, [98]
• Lower Nogal, [307]
• Loyi-Ada, between Jibúti and Zeila, boundary of English and French influence, [153]
• Maaruf, opposite Karanleh, [263]
• Mader Adan, [202]
• Madoqua swaynei described, [319];
• phillipsi described, [319];
• guentheri described, [319]
• Mahamúd Gerád, sub-tribe of the Dolbahanta, [41], [42], [92]
• Mahomed Liba, a chief of Rer Ali tribe, [127]
• Malcolm Jones, Mr., [156]
• Malingúr, [156], [204], [205], [210], [259]
• Mandalay, [90]
• Mandeira, [54], [89], [242], [243], [295]
• Map for Government completed, [89]
• Marar Prairie, [25], [142], [158], [162], [211], [268], [369];
• commencement of, [102]
• Marda Pass, [173]
• Marehán tribe, [20]
• Maritime Plain, [53]
• Maritime Range, [53], [91], [294], [364]
• Marriage laws, [12]
• Masai raids, [22]
• Massleh Wein, [253]
• Menelek, Emperor, [169]
• Methodist Mission at Golbánti, [22]
• Midgáns, [3], [4], [72], [140], [325];
• method of hunting lion, [293];
• method of hunting oryx, [299]
• Midjerten tribe, [20]
• Milmil, [121], [128], [283];
• caravans, [41]
• Mirso, [45], [90], [252]
• “Moga Medir” rock, mentioned by Sir Richard Burton, [102]
• Monkeys, [263], [273], [328]
• Monsoon, or Gu, [37], [218]
• Morrison, D. (the late), [80], [81], [82]
• Mosquitoes, [204]
• Mules on the Zeila-Harar road, [34]
• Mullahs, [4]
• Músa Abokr, [92]
• Mussulmans, [9], [218], [324];
• teaching, [16]
• Náno, [204], [211]
• Native councils, [14]
• Ngai (German mission station), [22]
• Nogál country, [94]
• Nomadic tribes, [2], [39]
• Núr Osman, my camelman, [47], [48], [53], [56]
• Núr Róbleh of Karanleh, [260], [264], [265]
• Obok, [278]
• Ogádén, [2], [4], [20], [182], [202], [276], [294], [298], [307], [316];
• graves, [94]
• Ogo country, [3], [41], [54], [307], [316]
• Ogo-Gudan, [55]
• Oreotragus megalotis described, [321];
• saltator, [317]
• Oryx hunting on foot, [4], [163];
• hide shield, [4];
• shoot two fine bulls and two cows, [56];
• tracks, [69];
• herds of, [102], [122], [136], [163], [205], [216], [241];
• in the Jerer Valley, [199];
• at Náno, [204];
• description of, [298], [325]
• Ostrich feather worn by Esa who has killed a man, [11]
• Ostriches, [56], [132], [133], [157], [199];
• see seventeen, [110];
• description of, [325]
• Outfit, [346]
• Paget, Col. Arthur, [91], [92], [261], [307];
• threatened attack on, [170]
• Panjábis enlisted at Aden, [83]
• Panther, see [Leopard]
• “Paradox” gun, [209], [287]
• Partridges, [328]
• Pelzeln’s gazelle, [317]
• Photographic outfit, [343]
• Physical geography of Somáliland, [361]
• Plants and trees, [369]
• Plateau gazelles, [56], [317]
• Ponies, description of, [34]
• Porro, Count, expedition of, [152]
• Purchase of tent, rifles, etc., [341]
• Rabbits, [329]
• Raiding tribes, [41]
• Raids, Somális and Gállas, [41]
• Rain, deluge of, [139], [218]
• Rainy season, [37]
• Rás Makunan, governor of Harar, [147], [231], [241];
• his orders to treat British travellers with courtesy, [168];
• visit to Shoa, [168];
• visit to Rome, [178];
• expresses great friendship for the British, [181];
• author’s farewell visit to, [183]
• Rations for natives, [348]
• Ravens, [328]
• Remington rifles, [144]
• Rer (tribal collective prefix), [20]
• Rer Ali tribe, [12], [20], [188], [212];
• wealth of, [283]
• Rer Amáden, [136], [156], [212], [216]
• Rer Harún, [128], [137], [211]
• Rer Dahir Farah, sub-tribe, [20]
• Rer Dollol and their camels, [102]
• Rer Gédi, [134]
• Rer Guléd (family), [21]
• Rer Haréd spies, [111];
• robbers, [113]
• Rer Mattan (clan), [21]
• Rer Samanter karias, [139]
• Rer Shirmáki Adan, [21]
• Rer Yunis Jibril, [101]
• Rhinoceros, first one shot, [132];
• shoot fine bull, [133];
• horns as sword handles, drinking cups, etc., [148];
• horns given as present to Rás Makunan, [148];
• author’s adventure with, [190], [200];
• drinking, [191];
• plentiful in Jerer Valley, [198];
• at Náno, [204];
• description of, [297]
• Rhinoceros bird, [32]
• Rhinoceros Valley, or Dih Wiyileh, [200]
• Rifle kicks and injures author, [64];
• ·577 used to shoot lion, [109];
• Lee-Metford, success of, [215];
• Winchester “Express,” [214]
• Rifles, the battery to take, [343]
• Róbleh, [21]
• Rock rabbits, [329]
• Rowland Ward, Mr., [247];
• examines new gazelle, [310]
• Ruins, [22];
• at Badwein, [95]
• Ruspoli, Prince, [170], [223], [261], [265], [281]
• Saad Yunis, [92]
• Said Harti, [21]
• Sakáro antelopes, [63], [87], [243];
• description of, [319]
• Sala Asseleh, [143]
• Sala, Mr., an Italian traveller, [115]
• “Salaam aleikum” (Peace be with you), [87]
• Salimbeni, Count, [178]
• Samani, [219]
• Samanter, [20], [126];
• my interpreter, [88]
• Samawé ruins, [25];
• tomb, [25]
• Sarar-awr (camel-back plateau), [86]
• Sattáwa, halt at, to form camp, [114]
• Sclater, Dr., [305]
• Scorpions, [329]
• Segag, [210]
• Sen Morettu, [261], [263], [277]
• Seton Karr, [157]
• Seyyid Mahomed, [259]
• Seyyid Mahomed’s town, [4], [259]
• Shabéleh, [136], [258]
• Shafei Mussulman, [20]
• Sheep, [2], [36];
• export of, [3]
• Sheikh, [90];
• Pass, [45]
• Sheikh Mattar, the chief of Hargeisa, [7], [17], [101], [121], [156], [259]
• Shendil, [275]
• Shield, [10], [297]
• Shírdone Yunis, [80]
• Shiré Shirmáki, [69], [71]
• Shirmáki Adan and his fifty-two children, [21]
• Shoa, [168]
• Shúm, or petty officer, visits author, [164]
• Sirkal (Government official), [43], [196]
• Sisai, at the back of Wagar, [97]
• Snakes, [329]
• Sobát, twelve miles from Jalélo, [59]
• Sœmmering’s gazelle, vast herds of, [102], [122], [133], [142], [157], [164], [172];
• shoot two right and left, [164];
• at Náno, [204];
• shot with Lee-Metford, [214];
• description, [315]
• So Madu, arrival of mail bag, [153]
• So Midgán, [85]
• Somáli tribes, [1], [21], [22];
• the, his character, [7], [17];
• salutation “Nabad,” [9];
• religion, costume, weapons, superstitions, and nomenclature, [10];
• women, wonderful powers of endurance, [12];
• language, [17];
• origin, [19];
• nicknames, [21];
• seasons, [36];
• trade, [374]
• Spears, [10]
• Spear-throwing, [218]
• Spiders, [329]
• Sporting battery, [343]
• Squirrels, [262], [329]
• Stace, Lieut.-Col., [376]
• Storks, [328]
• Strepsiceros imberbis (lesser koodoo), [243], [303]
• Subbul hills, [111], [162]
• Sultán Deria, [21]
• Swahili race, [23]
• Swayne, Captain E. J. E., assists me in the survey, [90]
• Swayne’s hartebeest first shot, [100];
• description of, [305]
• Sword hunters, [116]
• Syk, in the high Ogo country, [88], [244]
• Taala Gálla, or Gálla cairns, [26], [91]
• Tana river, [23]
• Taurin Cahaigne, Monseigneur, of Harar, [24], [181]
• Tawáwur (nearly seven thousand feet), [97]
• Temperature, [37], [38], [372];
• at Sisai, [97]
• Temple, supposed work of Gállas, [95]
• Tents, [341];
• Cabul, [185], [341];
• description of Basha-Basha’s, [175]
• Theodolite station, [90]
• Thirst, effect on domestic animals, [123]
• Ticks, [34]
• Tobe, [9], [287]
• Tomal, [3]
• Toyo Plain, [42], [297]
• Trade of Somáli, [375]
• Traders, [2]
• Trading caravans, [2]
• Tragelaphus decula, [308]
• Treaty between British Government and Somális, [77]
• Trees, [370]
• Trophies, preparation of, [359]
• Tug Dér, wells, [91]
• Túli, [132];
• march to, [201]
• Tusbas, scented prayer-chaplets, [220]
• Tusks of Somáli elephant smaller than those of southern ones, [76]
• Ugaz Núr, [114]
• Ujawáji, [101], [120], [162]
• Umr Ugaz, [205], [261]
• Upper Sheikh, [91]
• Vultures, [113], [215], [275], [328]
• Vulturine guinea-fowls at the wells, [94]
• Wa-berri (from berri, morning), [21]
• Wádi thorn-trees, [163]
• Wagar Mountain, [46], [97], [303]
• Waller’s gazelle, [56], [133], [201], [204], [237], [321];
• seized by panther, [198];
• shot with Lee-Metford, [214];
• killed by leopard, [281];
• description of, [312]
• Walsh, L. P., assistant Resident at Aden, [78], [148]
• Wandi, chief of police at Harar, [184]
• Wapokómo negroes of the Tana, [23]
• Warda-Gumaréd, one of the great trade arteries, [123]
• Waredad Plain, [96], [294]
• Waror, [133];
• description of wells, [135]
• Warsama Dugál, a chief of the Ba-Gadabursi, [85]
• Warsingali tribe, [20]
• Wart-hog, [126], [243], [254], [278];
• kill fine one near camp, [64], [278];
• description of, [324]
• Water, method of getting, [92], [135];
• supply statistics, [122];
• wells, [241]
• Water-bottles made by natives, [10]
• Waterbuck, [228], [261], [268], [275], [276];
• swims across stream, [269];
• description of, [307]
• Webbe Shabéleh river, [23], [38], [210], [307];
• first journey to, [186], [213], [223], [226], [228];
• second journey to, [258];
• crossing the river, [264]
• Wild asses, [56];
• description of, [323]
• Wild boar, see [Wart-hog]
• Wild dog, [326]
• Wolverton, Lord, [261]
• Women appeal for help against the Abyssinians, [127]
• Wood, Major C. E. W., [326]
• Yahia, a Somáli, [265], [276]
• Yebir, [3]
• Yemen, [182]
• Yirrowa, [90]
• Yoáleh, [127]
• Yoghol hill, [25]
• Yunis, author’s guide, [216]
• Zebra, trying to catch young one, [216]
• Zebras, [204], [205], [214], [237];
• description of, [322]
• Zeila, [24], [151], [153], [362];
• under British Consul, [78];
• exploration into the hills, [89];
• march to, [115]
• Zeríba, [2], [20], [126], [200], [236];
• arrangement of, [357]
• Zoological Society Proceedings shown to natives, [229]

THE END

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Transcriber’s Note: The maps are clickable for larger images, if your device supports that.

HUNTING MAP OF NORTHERN SOMÁLI LAND.

To illustrate Captain H. G. C. Swayne’s Seventeen Trips through Somáli Land.

Published by Rowland Ward & Co., Limited “The Jungle” 166 Piccadilly, London.

RAPID RECONNAISANCE OF ROUTE OF TWO PRIVATE HUNTING EXPEDITIONS TO THE WEBBE IN 1893.

SKETCH OF THE HORN OF AFRICA showing all journeys by the Author & his brother

To illustrate Captain H. G. C. Swayne’s Seventeen Trips through Somáli Land.

Published by Rowland Ward & Co., Limited “The Jungle” 166 Piccadilly, London.