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

• 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]