Mbulu (village), 210, 219, 223, 241, 242, 248
Mbulu Land, 208
Meinertzhagen, Richard, 37
Mengoriki, Martin, 196–98
Merille River, 48–49
Meröe, 4, 22, 24
Meru, 57, 92, 166, 170
Mhoja (park ranger), 138, 140
Minot, Frank, 194
Miombo, 143
Mokwan, 92, 177
Mombasa, 25, 31, 99, 144, 178
Momela, 162–65, 174
Moru Kopjes, 84–86, 92, 96
Moshi, 209
Moslems, Islam, 2, 3, 11, 14, 23, 31, 235
Mosquito River (Mto Wa Mbu), 174, 181
Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzoris), 5, 20, 174
Mount Elgon, 92, 217
Mount Hanang, 174, 217
Mount Kenya, 25, 37–39, 41, 43, 57, 70, 89, 92, 94, 100, 144, 167, 174
Mount Kilimanjaro, 26, 44, 99, 144, 161–62, 164–65, 167, 174, 212
Mount Kulal, 66, 70
Mount Marsabit, 40, 41, 50–52, 60, 70, 176, 178
Mount Meru, 144, 161–62, 164, 166–67, 190
Msindai, Aaron, 209–11
Mtito Andej, 151
Mto Wa Mbu (Mosquito River), 174, 181
Mudanda Rock, 151
Muisi Dorobo, 38
Munguli, 211
Murchison Falls, 19–20, 144, 145, 147, 191
muskets, 97
Musoma, 131
Mwoko, 57, 92
Naabi Hill, 78, 89, 124
Nainokanoka, 195, 204
Nairobi, 26–28, 30, 32, 34, 41, 45, 92, 99, 101, 114–15, 189, 199, 200
Naisera, 91–92, 97, 99, 106
Naiteru, 94
Naivasha, 164, 206
Nakuru, 92, 206
Namanga, 164, 181
Nandi, 27, 32, 37–39, 57, 58, 92, 95, 96, 177, 217
Nanyaluka, 66–67
Nanyuki, 37, 148
Narok, 98, 181
Narok River, 92
Natal, 23
Ndala, 140, 153, 154, 157, 159, 208–9
Ndala River (Buffalo River), 134, 135
Ndorobo, see Dorobo
Negroids, 8–9, 22, 23, 56, 58, 74, 177, 213, 227
Neolithic people, 56–57, 74, 177
Neumann, Arthur, 99, 151, 195
Ngai, 97, 103, 202, 206
N’gare N’erobi, 164
Ngata Kiti, 90–91, 97, 102, 105–6
Ngong Hills, 32, 92, 189
Ngongo, 26
Ngoni Zulu, 24, 98, 142
Ngorongoro Crater, 90, 102, 106, 121, 137, 171, 174, 176, 181, 195, 197, 203
Ngurdoto Crater, 161–62, 171–73
Nguruman Escarpment, 164, 182, 189–91, 194, 195, 198, 206
Nguya, 66–67, 69
Ngwinye, 69
Niger River, 22
Nile River, 2, 4–5, 7, 15, 16, 19–20, 22, 39, 62, 73, 142, 144, 145
Nilotes, 9, 11–12, 23, 31, 56–58, 93, 177, 209, 211
Nimule, 14–15, 18–19, 31–32
Nok culture, 4
Northern Frontier, 40, 46, 98, 178
North Horr, 54, 55, 59, 60, 62, 63
Nubian Desert, 5
Nuer, 1–2, 10–12, 93
Nyamahanga, Corporal, 104
Nyerere, Julius, 215–16
Nyeri, 37
Okiek, 38
Ol Alilal, 197, 203–4
Olbalbal Escarpment, 72
Olbalbal Plains, 75, 176
Oldeani, 75
Ol Doinyo Lengai, see Lengai
Ol Doinyo Lenkiyio, 48
Ol Doinyo Rabi, 90
Old People, 39, 75, 208, 249, 253
Olduvai Gorge, 46, 58–59, 72–76, 80, 81, 84, 94, 113, 215
olive trees, 52
Ol Kerii, 175
Olorgesaille, 189
Omdurman, 2, 10
Omo River, 59, 62, 68, 73
Orangi River, 130
Orma Boran, 152
oryxes, 41, 46, 105, 149, 150
ostriches, 41, 189–90, 213–14
Out of Africa (Dinesen), 35, 99, 161
Ovajimba, 39–40
Owen, John, 31–32, 100, 116, 141, 143–44, 162
pangolins, 122
Parker, Ian, 144–46
perch, 68–69
Percival, Blayney, 99
Percival, Philip, 99, 130
Peters, Karl, 95
pigs, bush, 171, 172
poaching, 113–16, 131, 146, 152–53, 244
Podocarpus trees, 166–67
Porter, Eliot, 40, 48, 60, 70
Porter, Stephen, 60
Porter family, 45
Power, Prunella, 135–38
Proto-Hamites, 23, 56–57, 74, 177
Ptolemy, 5
Pygmies, 15, 23, 39, 56–57, 102
Pygmoids, 9, 23
Queen Elizabeth National Park, 20
rain, 122, 202, 205
Rebmann, Johannes, 99
Red God, 202
Reed, George, 182
reedbucks, 88
Reitnauer, Robert, 194
Rendille, 51, 63, 66, 70
Rendille Land, 70
rhinoceros, 16–17, 32, 42, 73, 74, 93–94, 140, 149, 167–72, 187–88, 193–94, 202, 237, 238, 246
Rhodesia, 23, 149, 150, 162, 176
Richards, Mary, 162–64
Rift Escarpment, 89, 134, 153
Rift Valley, 32, 56, 62, 73, 92, 103, 175, 189, 199
Rise of Our East African Empire, The (Lugard), 27
Rocco, Oria, 154, 156–59, 199, 201
Roman Empire, 5
Roosevelt, Theodore, 99
Ruaha, 131, 141, 143, 146
Ruanda-Urundi, 23, 177, 191
Ruwenzoris (Mountains of the Moon), 5, 20, 174
Saba Saba, 209–10, 211, 217
Sahara Desert, 4–5, 57
Salei Plain, 90, 102, 103, 105
Samburu (game reserve), 41, 44
Samburu (people), 40, 42, 47–49, 51, 56, 61, 63, 64, 70, 95, 112
Sandawe, 213, 249
Sangwe, 247–48
Savidge, John, 141, 143
Schaller, George, 77–81, 118, 125–26, 131–33, 158, 195
Schindelar, Fritz, 101
scorpions, 45
Selous, Frederick, 80, 99, 130, 195
Sendeyo, 95
Serekieli (askari), 166, 168, 171–73
Serengeti, 72, 75–78, 89–90, 96, 113–15, 122, 124–26, 130–31, 137, 144, 217
Serengeti Research Institute, 77, 107, 146, 201
Seronera, 75, 76, 78, 83, 84, 96, 112, 116, 125, 126, 131, 208
Sharpeville Massacre, 6
Sheldrick, David, 144–46, 152
shifta, 40, 41, 59–61, 63
Shilluk, 1, 2, 7–12
Shombole, 174, 182, 184, 190, 198, 199, 203, 205–6
Sindiyo, D. M., 112
Singida, 109
Sipunga, 221, 223, 232, 233, 240–41, 244, 246, 248, 250, 253
Sirikwa, 177
slave trade, 6, 10, 21, 23–24, 31, 44, 93
Small People (Twa; Abatwa), 23, 39, 208, 210, 215, 227
snakes, 63, 85–86
Sobat River, 10
Soit Naado Murt, 84, 86, 88
Somali, 25, 40–42, 49, 51, 70, 98, 103, 105, 178
Somalia, 22, 40, 51, 70
Somaliland, 70
Sonjo, 103–6, 177–78, 195, 202, 206
South Africa, 30, 39, 150
Southern Highlands, 142
South Horr, 71
South Island, 66
Speke, John, 24, 99, 142
Stanley, H. M., 108
stomoxys flies, 137
storks, 77, 83, 124, 179–80
Sudan, 1–17, 24, 31–32, 57, 65, 73, 75, 93, 100, 114, 179, 181
Sudd, 5
Sukuma, 176
Sutherland, Jim, 195
Swahili, 24, 27, 45, 142, 235
Tabora, 142
Tana River, 25, 93, 151
Tandusi, 245
Tanganyika, 72, 95, 96, 99, 211
Tanzania, 31, 57, 58, 72, 93, 97, 109–10, 114, 131, 141–43, 149, 150, 153, 162, 180–81, 195, 203, 213, 215
Tanzania National Parks, 31, 100, 146
Tasarians, 4
Tatog, 92, 93
Tatoga, 226
Teita Hills, 144, 153
Teleki, Sámuel, 66, 71, 99
Temple-Boreham, Lyn, 47
termites, 121
Thesiger, Wilfred, 163
Thika, 37, 151
Thomson, Joseph, 89, 99, 164, 168–69, 175, 181, 190
thorn trees (acacias), 7, 43–44, 139–40, 216, 237
Through Masai Land (Thomson), 89
tilapia, 67–69
Tindiga, 101–2, 154, 209–11, 221–22
Tindiga Land, 209
Tiva River, 151, 152
Tlavi, 210
Togoro Plain, 129
Tsavo, 26, 61, 109, 143–46, 151–52, 214, 232
tsetse flies, 191–92, 210, 211, 215, 216
Tuareg, 51
Turkana, 40, 47, 48, 58, 62–66, 71, 96, 151
Turkana Land, 62, 66
Turnbull, Colin, 161
Turner, Myles, 89–92, 97–102, 104, 105, 107, 111, 113, 116, 129, 195, 208
Turu, 109
Tusi, 177, 178, 191–92
Twa (Abatwa; Small People), 23, 39, 208, 210, 215, 227
Uasin Gishu Plateau, 177
Uaso Nyiro River, 40–42, 47, 189, 190, 192, 194, 198, 202, 205
Udahaya, 221, 223, 229, 233
ugali, 235, 242
Uganda, 14–17, 19–20, 23, 25, 27, 31, 32, 39, 65, 73, 149, 177, 191, 214, 217, 223
Uganda Escarpment, 62
Vesey-FitzGerald, Desmond, 146–47, 162–64, 166, 168, 170–71, 182–83
Voi, 143–44, 146, 153
Von Blumenthal, Baron, 162
vultures, 77, 81–82, 124, 125
Wadi Halfa, 5
Wajir, 178
Warusa, 190
Watindiga, 208
Wellington, Matthew, 35
West Africa, 4, 22, 23
White Highlands, 29, 31, 34
wildebeest (cow gnus), 76, 78–79, 81–82, 90, 124, 149, 179, 202
Wildlife Services Ltd., 144
Woodburn, James, 212–13
Woodley, Bill, 152–53
Xam Bushmen, 23
Yaida, 214–17, 219
Yaida Chini, 209–11, 218–21, 226–28, 234, 235, 241, 242–44, 248
Yaida Escarpment, 221
Yaida Plain, 232
Yaida River, 211
Yaida Valley, 102, 154, 208, 210, 249
Yatta Plateau, 151
Zambezi River, 22, 142, 178
Zambia, 149, 162
Zanzibar, 27, 142
zebras, 41, 43, 46, 76, 85, 118–20, 123, 124, 126, 149, 150, 179, 191, 214
Zimba, 178
Zimbabwe, 23, 24, 176, 178
Zinj, 21
Zulu, 23, 24, 98, 142, 176, 208, 227
*Northern Frontier District
** Serengeti Research Institute
* The term “Caucasoid” is used loosely here to signify peoples with Eurasian blood who have mixed with Africans to varying degrees over the centuries. The Caucasoids include the Hamitic-speaking Berber, Tuareg, Egyptians, and Ethiopians of northern Africa as well as more recent Semitic invaders such as the Arabs and Somali; the northern Sudanese today are a mixture of Arab, Hamite, and Negro. Since racial and linguistic groupings are still disputed by authorities, so that no two books on Africa are consistent, I have confined myself where possible to the names of the main language families (cf. Nilotic, Hamitic, Semitic) and avoided more precise and less dependable terms such as Nilo-Hamitic, Cushitic, Sudanic, Afro-Asiatic, etc. The selected references-bibliography at the end of the text will indicate where full discussions of such questions may be found.
*“Masai” is properly “Maasai” and “Kikuyu” is more accurately “Gikuyu,” but in the latter case I have retained the “literary” spelling, which is now favored by the tribe; also, I have dropped the Wa- prefix (signifying “people”), which is used so inconsistently throughout the literature (one finds Wakamba but not Wakikuyu, Wandorobo but not Wamaasai).
* I have since been told that the African was Stanley, Mr. Adamson’s camp cook of many years, who was seized not long thereafter by an adopted lion known as Boy. Hearing a scream, Mr. Adamson came running and killed Boy, but the old man died.
*Because few plants in Africa have common names (except in the language of the local tribes—these names should eventually be given preference over European ones), generic names such as “acacia” (Acacia ssp.) and “euphorbia” (Euphorbia ssp.) are used ordinarily instead; I have extended this unscientific but inevitable practice to other prominent genera, cf. Commiphora, Grewia, Dombeya, Terminalia, Combretum, and the like, to avoid burdening the text with italics and capital letters.
* In early 1971, the name was debased still further when two thousand square miles of this region were set aside as the “East Rudolf” National Park.
* Droughts appear to fall in ten-year cycles: another serious drought occurred in 1971.