A White King in East Africa / The Remarkable Adventures of John Boyes, Trader and Soldier of Fortune, Who Became King of the Savage Wa-Kikuyu

by John Boyes

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;
  • joining[joining] the R.N.R., [12];
  • West Africa, [12]-15;
  • disappointment regarding[regarding] 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];
  • goes 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;
  • its 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
• Elephants, 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]

• Industries 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

• Mabrook 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]
• Naivasha, 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]

• Salisbury, [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]
• Umvunga 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
• Wanderobo 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.