Nine Faces Of Kenya

  Mackinnon, William, 45

  Mackintosh, Brian, The Scottish Mission in Kenya 1891–1923, 135

  mahindi, 40

  Maji ya Chumvi, 56

  Maka, 136

  Makindu, 56

  Maklandjalu, 12

  Malakote (tribe), 342

  Malindi, 20, 21, 22, 23, 127, 128, 222, 404; beach, 220–2

  mana, 357

  Manda, 219

  Mandera, 156

  Manyara, 238

  Manyatta (tribe), 137

  manyatta, 262, 324, 325, 326, 328, 346, 366

  Maragoli, 109; (tribe) 169, 175

  Maranga, 387

  Marewa river, 170

  marfutu, 262

  Markham, Beryl, 283; West With the Night, 284

  Marsabit, 60, 315; M. Mountain, 195; mixed community and petty crime, 365

  Marsh, Zoë, East Africa Through Contemporary Records, 24

  Martin, James, 27

  Massam, J. A., The Cliff Dwellers of Kenya, 339

  mataathi, 174, 175

  Mathare Valley, 341

  Matson, A. T., Nandi Resistance to British Rule, 137

  Mau Escarpment, 51, 73

  Mau Mau 116, 123, 164–80, 181, 213, 292, 293; “General” Dedan Kimathi, 173–9; hideouts, 170–2; initiation, 164–6; “Kenya parliament”, 175, 180; Kikuyu resistance to, 169–70; Lari massacre, 169; organized for war, creation of Militant and Passive Wings, 167–8; patrols against, 171–3; “Pseudo-gangs”, 172–3 175, 177; State of Emergency, 164, 167, 169, 180

  Mau Summit, 49

  Maungu, 186

  Mazeras, 56

  Mbagathi, 72; M. River, 72

  Mberre, 26, 53

  mbuci, 175

  mbugu, 354

  mbuzi, 385

  McMillan, William Northrup, 93

  McQueen, Mary, 71, 75

  Mecca, 14; pilgrimage to; 315

  medicine, 52, 89–91, 200, 225; Dr Burkitt’s “cold water cure”, 89–90; Dr Ribeiro’s cure for malaria, 91; Kikuyu surgery, 353; treatment for colic, 353, and infertility, 353–5; see also Flying Doctor service

  Meinertzhagen, Richard, 137–40, 145, 258, 294; Army Diary 1899–1926, 146; Kenya Diary 1902–1906, 140, 231, 275, 311, 347

  Menengai, Mount, 230

  Merrille, 343

  Meru, 235, 329; Mount M., 285

  middle Miocene, 1, 2

  migrations (of wildlife), 230–3

  “mikondi”, 337

  Miller, Charles, The Battle for the Bundu, 145; The Lunatic Express 45, 51

  Mkamba, 25

  mlango, 217

  Mogadishu, 157

  Moi, Daniel arap, 182

  Moiben River, 111

  Molo river, 86

  Mombasa, 1, 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 34, 39, 42, 51, 56, 57, 58, 70, 71, 85, 93, 99, 127, 128, 137, 146, 182, 201, 208, 214–18, 337, 362; siege of, 130–2

  Mombasa-Victoria Railway (Uganda Railway), 46

  moon, symbolism and Maasai, 328–9, 378–9

  moran, 77, 321, 323–9, 340

  morogi, 360–1

  Moshi, 149

  Moss, Cynthia, 310; Elephant Memories, 237, 310

  Mountains of the Moon, 208

  Mouza, 10

  Moyale, 153, 156

  Mozambique, 18, 21, 131

  Mtama, 151

  Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari, The Customs of the Swahili People, 319, 332, 333, 353, 360, 406

  muezzin, 219

  mugumo, 176, 179

  muhiki, 336

  Muhoroni, 50

  muhugo, 151

  Muigai, Alexander, “The troubled warrior”, 419

  muirigo, 177

  Mukamba (tribe), 364

  mukwa, 336

  Mumia’s, 29

  mungirima, 173

  mungu, 357

  munyeni, 173

  Muringato river, 178

  Murphy, Dervla, xxv

  Muscat, 45, 71, 131; Imam of, 22

  Muslim, 102, 130, 225, 315, 362; Swahili custom, 318

  muthegi, 173, 174, 175

  Mwangi Kariuki, Josiah, Mau Mau Detainee, 337

  Mwangi, Meja, Incident in the Park, 213 mwari, 318

  M’zee, the, 181, 182; see also Kenyatta, M’zee Jomo

  mzungus, 210

  naiberès, 27

  Naipaul, North of South, 211

  Nairobi, xxiii, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 64, 65, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 89, 91, 93, 95, 96, 98, 101, 102, 118, 141, 167, 168, 175, 182, 200–13, 215, 221, 225, 285, 308, 315, 320, 335, 337, 341, 362, 364; building of, 201–2, 205; Government House, 203, 204; horticulture, 202, 207–9, 211; Museum, 3; Muthaiga Club, 204, 206, 207; Park, 269; New Year’s Ball, 204; Race Week, 203–4, 206–7; River, 201, 202; social manners, 204–5; Stock Exchange, 341; torrent, 38; tourism, 207, 209; University of, 412

  Nairragie-Enkare, 327

  Naivasha, 41, 51, 52, 53, 77; Lake, 107, (bird life on), 305–6

  nakhoda, 217, 218

  Nakuru, 230–1, 370, 371; (tribe), 57, 60, 85, 87, 95. 180; Lake, 105, 230, 254

  Nandi (tribe), 49–50, 132, 347, 369; beliefs, 358–9; British subjugation of, 137–40; lion hunt, 287–8

  Nandi Fort, 137, 138, 140

  Nanyuki, 162

  Norok, 62, 327

  Nassir, Ahmad, “The fire”, 404

  National Museums of Kenya, 214

  National Park, 222, 229, 269, 308

  Native Reserves, 94–5, 110

  Natron, 185

  Ndabibi, 81

  ndahi, 174

  Ndarugu Valley, 93

  Ndo valley, 338

  NDF, 156

  neapara, 41

  Nelion, 38

  Neumann, Arthur, 273–6; Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, 275

  Ngai, 166, 179

  Ngendalel escarpment, 255

  “Ngima”, 177

  ngoma, 285

  ngombi, 385

  Ngong, 102, 201; Hills, 213

  Ngugi, James, trans., Mbugua Njama, Mahoya ma Waiyaki, 135

  nguo ya maribe, 336

  nguruwe, 296

  Nigeria, 153, 157

  Nile, 15, 46, 63

  Nimule, 63

  Ning Tsung, Emperor, 223

  Nithi Gorge, 194

  Njama, Karari, 173, 175, 179, 180

  njama ya ita, 360

  Njemps, 30

  Njombo, Major Esther Wambui, 334–5

  Njoro, 73, 74, 80–1, 104, 203

  Nnaggenda, Francis, “The dead”, 426

  Norfolk Hotel, 75, 76, 202

  Ntiru, Richard, “Rhythm of the pestle”, 418

  nyama, 40

  Nyandarua, 51, 170, 171, 231, 291; Hill, 231; Mount, 354

  nyanja, 174

  Nyasa, Lake, 208

  Nyasore, 81–2

  Nyassaland, 140, 141

  Nyeri, 103, 172, 178, 203

  Nyika (bush), 186, 187, 189

  Oiik, 358

  Ol Donyo Sapuk, 93, 202

  Oldoinyo Lengai, 5

  Olduvai (Gorge), 2, 3–6

  Oloitipitip, Stanley Ole (Maasai MP), 342

  olpul, 326–7

  Oman, 9, 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, 218; Sultan of, 23, 45; Omani, 217

  Omo River, 345

  Orchardson, I. Q., The Kipsigis, 379, 381

  Organization of African Unity, 213

  orogi, 359

  oubain, 272

  Outspan Hotel, 103, 291

  Owen, Captain William, 22

  Pangani, 22, 23, 29, 30; valley, 147

  pangas, 165, 168, 170, 182, 193, 355

  Patterson, Lt.-Col. J. H., 47–9; The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, 49

  Pate Island, 396

  Pax Britannica, 39, 45

  p’Bitek, Okot, 406, 412; Song of Lawino, 406, 412; Song of Ocol, 412

  Pease, Sir Alfred, The Land of the Lion, 287

  Pemba, 22, 23

  pepo, 351

  Percival, A. B., 286; A Game Ranger’s Note Book, 231, 235, 272; A Game Ranger on Safari, 42, 254, 256, 2
62

  Perham, Marjery, 296–8; East African Journey, 205, 298, 341

  Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, The, 9, 11, 270

  Pern, Stephen, Another Land, Another Sea, 347

  Persian, colonization, xxiv, 9; Gulf, 9

  Pesi river, 59

  pillar tombs, 222

  Pliny, 11

  poaching, 225, 229, 269, 273, 304, 308–10

  Pokomo, 346

  Pokot (tribe), xxv, 33, 333, 357, 369

  polygamy, 330–2; Kikuyu attitude to, 331; Swahili attitude to, 331–2

  polo, 203–4

  Port Florence, 50, 51

  Portsmouth, Earl of, 114; A Knot of Roots, 116, 193, 259

  Portuguese, conquest by, xxiii, xxiv, 9, 46, 214; introduction of playing cards, 219; occupation, 127; Wars, 127–31; Portuguest East Africa, 149, 152

  posho, 42, 195, 275

  Powys, Llewelyn, 385; Black Laughter, 84, 93, 303, 386

  Preston, R. O., The Genesis of Kenya Colony, 201

  Pussumuru, 62

  Quitale, 29–30

  Quylee, 21

  Rabai, 23, 24, 26

  Rainsford, W. S., The Land of the Lion, 203

  Ravenstein, E. G., trans., A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 19, 21

  Reader, John and Harvey Croze, Pyramids of Life, 261

  Rebmann, Johann, 23, 24, 25

  Red Sea, 9, 10, 11

  Reece, Alys, To My Wife – Fifty Camels, 62, 196, 317, 343, 365

  Reitz, Lieutenant John James; 23

  Rejaf, 63

  religion and magic, 356–61; see also tribes

  Rendile (tribe), 34, 35, 349

  Rensburg, Van, 85

  Reshiat, 32

  Rhapta, 10

  Rhodesias, the, 153

  Ribeiro, Dr Rosendo Ayres, 91

  Ricciardi, Lorenzo, 217; The Voyage of the Mir-el-Lal, 218, 307

  Ricciardi, Mirella, African Saga, 108

  Ridley, Mervyn and Sybil, 111

  rinderpest, 69, 109, 230, 324

  Ritchie, Archibald, 308

  Rocco family, 107

  roho, 357

  rondavel, 75

  Rongai river, 86

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 93, 279, 287; African Game Trails, 197, 256, 280, 288

  Rosenblum, Mort and Doug Williamson, Squandering Eden, 213, 345

  Routledge, W. S. and K., With a Prehistoric People, 318, 324, 331, 343, 346

  Royal Engineers, 201

  Royal Fusiliers, 145, 146, 149, 151

  Royal Geographical Society, 27

  Rubadiri, David, “Stanley meets Mutesa”, 423

  Rudolf, Lake, xxiv, 31, 34, 275

  Rufiji river, 143, 144

  ruhiu, 336

  Ruiru, 89

  rungu, 307

  rust (crop disease), 80–1, 98, 114

  Sabiki river, 221

  Sadiman, 5

  Sagala Mission Station, 201

  Sagana, 293

  Saikari, 327, 329

  Salalah, 218

  Salisbury Bridge, 51

  Sambuk, 216, 217

  Samburu, 186, 303, 367; (tribe) 234, 339–40, 349, 368, 383

  Sayyid Abdulla bin Ali bin Nasir, Al Inkishafi: Catechism of a Soul, 396, 398

  Schaller, George, Golden Shadows, Flying Hooves, 191, 239

  Schmid, John, The Kenya Magic 215

  Seaton, Henry, Lion in the Morning, 95, 364, 366, 372

  Second World War, 153–64, 225

  Selous, Frederick, 151

  senengè, 27

  Serengeti, 232

  Sergoit (Rock), 87

  shamba, xxiii, 26, 107, 114, 116, 123, 161, 180, 331, 335

  Shangalla (tribe), 347

  Shanties, 58, 201, 208

  Sheldrick, David, 291

  Sheldrick, Daphne, The Tsavo Story, 189, 236, 247, 273

  Sherbroke-Walkers, Major Eric and Lady Bettie, 103, 291

  shika kamba, 369

  Shipley, Eric, 39

  shukas, 320, 321, 322

  siafu, 260

  Sikh, 102, 362

  simès (simis), 27, 28, 165

  “sindano”, 200, 365

  Sir Alan Cobham’s Aviation Company, 63

  Sir Edward Northey’s Zoo, 203

  Slater, Captain B. L., 137

  slave trade, 9, 12–16, 22, 23, 29, 30, 127, 134; abolition of, 45, 46, 69

  Smuts, General Jan, 146, 148

  Snow, Philip, The Star Raft, 17

  Sofala, 11, 12, 13, 127

  Solai, 60

  Somalia, 72, 216; Somali, 72, 82, 91, 100, 217, 218, 225, 334, 365, 366; beauty of women, 316; befriending British soldier in the bush, 155–6; daughters, 316–17; greeting, 316; ponies, 203; quarrelsomeness, 369; saving Lord Delamere from a lion, 286–7; women, 334

  Somaliland, 74, 153; British Somaliland, 156, 157; Italian Somaliland, 157

  Sosiani river, 87, 96

  South Africa, 74, 79, 81, 146, 147, 153, 154, 157, 162, 205, 213; South African “Trekker”, 152

  South African Air Force, 153

  South African Brigade, 157

  South African Infantry, 151

  Southern Reserve, 230

  Speke, John Hanning, 196

  Stanley Hotel, 74; New Stanley Hotel, 76, 204, 209

  Stapleton, James, The Gate Hangs Well, 114, 119

  Stewart, George, & Co., 201

  Stigand, Captain C. H., 55; The Land of Zinj, 56

  Stoton, 355, 356

  Strandes, Justus, The Portuguese Period in East Africa, 131

  “strongui”, 61

  Suam river, 258

  Sudan, 46, 63, 157, 161, 258, 276, 334; Sudanese, 39, 139

  Suk (Pokot), xxv, 324–5, 333, 357, 371

  Sumburu, 367, 368

  sun, in Maasai legend, 378–9

  Sur, 216

  Suswa, Mount, 329

  Swahili, xxiii, xxv, 9, 28, 29, 48, 78, 92, 115, 127, 132, 217, 219, 273, 277, 278, 296, 298, 307; Muslim custom regarding young girls, 318–19; ordeal to identify a sorcerer, 359–60; poetry, 389–427 (love poems, 399–402; modern poetry, 406–27); polygamy, 331–2; proverb, 221; “reduction” of malign spirits, 351–3

  Tana River, 1, 25, 26, 34, 234, 241, 242, 272, 342

  Tanga, 142, 145

  Tanganyika, 9, 141

  Tanzania, 1, 2, 5, 9, 140, 185, 196, 342, 361; Army, 218

  Taru, 56; desert, 71

  Tate, Mayence, 74, 76

  Taveta, 33

  Teleki, Count, see von Szek, Count Samuel Teleki

  terrain, bush, 70, 72, 95, 143, 149, 151, 152, 154, 159, 172, 185–9, 192, 209, 213, 220; bushcraft, 154, 176–7; bush fire, 105; coral, 214, 221, 222, 259; deserts, 185, 190, 200, 220, 224, 225; forests, 192–4, 200, 220; (tropical), 1, 2, 185; highlands, 1, 2, 27, 56, 69, 70, 71, 74, 79, 94, 95, 117, 185, 207, 221, 229; lakes, 196–200 (see also individual lakes); lava rock, 60, 62, 185, 198; mountains, 194–6; Nyika (bush), 187, 189; oasis, 225; plains, 189–91, 200; plains fire, 190; savanna, 1, 58; scrub, 186; sourveld, 190; veld, 57, 83, 85, 87, 88, 95, 98, 113, 147, 302, 303; volcanoes, 1, 3, 5, 31, 185, 192, 200, 306; see also vegetation

  Thomson, Joseph, 27–9, 196; Through Masai Land, 28, 197

  Thomson’s Falls, xxv, 59, 173

  Thuku, Harry, 120; An Autobiography, 121

  Tigania, 330

  Timboroa, 85, 86

  tortoiseshell, 9, 10

  Totos, 101, 161

  touca, 20

  travel, advent of the aeroplane, 62–5, motor vehicle, 60–2, railway, 40, 45, 58–9, 69, 79, 85, 137, 186; dhow, 9, 23, 51, 131, 216–18 (description of different types, sailors and cargo); Englishwomen’s “mounts” in 1909, 202; ox-drawn wagons, 59–60, 86–7, 96–7, 101, 142, 146–7, 279, 280; porters, 23–38, passim, 48, 51, 52, 55, 62, 71, 77, 78, 137, 148, 150, 152, 192, 193, 194, 235, 273, 282, 366; characteristics of, 40–42; deprivations suffered during First World War, 148; and musical instruments and singing, 279–80; return from an expedition and payment, 274–5; safari, 40??
?2, 59–60, 63, 71, 93, 192, 209, 260, 274, 279–80, 298, 366–7, and the honey-guide, 256; (safari) chronicler, 278–9; Denys Finch Hatton’s tips for comfort on safari, 282–3; sedan chair, 77, 78; “sewn boats”, 9, 10; see also Uganda Railway

  Trench, Charles Chenevix, The Desert’s Dusty Face, 369

  tribes, 315; animal sacrifice, 350, 353; belief in spirits, 350–3, 355, 357, 358–9; blood-brotherhood, 54; blood money, 360, 364; black magic, 166; body and face painting, 51, 77, 321, 322, 328, 349, 352, 369; cannibalism, 12, 13, 128–30, 347; cattle-raiding, 323–7; costume and ornamentation, 49, 51, 77, 115, 173, 202, 221, 287, 320–8, passim, 340, 349–50, 369; dance, 77, 115, 288, 321, 345–6; diet, 287, 338, 339, 340–1, 346–7; fishing, 343–4; games, 72; inter-tribal conflicts, 52–3, 70, 78, 127, 135, 213, 272, 366; law, 363; mythology, 328–9, 356–9; 375–6, 378–9 (see also Gikuyu and Mumbi); Native Reserves, 94–5, 110; nomadism, xxiii, 69, 78, 225, 270, 272, 339–40, 346, 369; oath-taking, 164–7; ordeal and punishment of sorcerers, 359–61; poisoned arrows, 51, 135, 271, 308; manufacture of poison for, 272–3; polygamy, 330–2; resistance to white settlement, 132–40; ritual scars, 328; spitting as token of good behaviour, 343; susceptibility to psychic suggestion, 351; taking of life (attitude to), 324–5; thumb-pulling, 299–300, 316–17; witch doctors, 166, 315, 350–1; 355–6, 359–61, 369–72; see also laibon; Mau Mau; moran; and individual tribes

  Trzebinski, Errol, The Kenya Pioneers, 72, 76, 89; Silence Will Speak, 283

  Tsavo, 47, 48, 189; East National Park, 188, 246, 269

  Turkana, 103, 185, 190, 349; (tribe), 200, 240, 343, 344–5. 368; conversation with a chieftain, 324–5; disaster, 344–5; escarpment, 361; Fisherman’s Cooperative Society, 344; Lake, 2, 4, 34, 198–9, 273, 344

  Twist, Captain, T. K., 63

  Uasin Gishua plateau, 76, 85, 87, 98, 112, 229, 287

  Uganda, 41, 42, 46, 133, 137, 141, 185, 196, 258, 276, 329, 361, 362, 365

  Uganda Railway, 45–7, 49–51, 53, 83, 99; defended against Germans, 141–3; as social institution, 56–8; thefts by Nandi tribesmen, 49–50; travelling tips and conducted tour, 55–6

  uhuru, 120, 342

  Ukambani, 26, 28

  utendi, 389, 391, 399

  utunda, 319

  van der Post, Laurens, First Catch Your Eland, 349

  vegetation, acacias, 186, 187, 189, 190, 198, 199, 214, 248, (elatior) 187; pods as food for goats, 338–9; adenia, 220; Akokanthera tree, 272; bamboo, 192, 194; banana, 196; baobabs, 187, 188, 214, 217; bauhinea, 196; “bayonet grass”, 281; beard-moss, 193; bignonias, 208; blue gums, 211; Bougainvillea, 203, 207, 208; combretum, 189; convolvulus, 186; datura (moonflower), 242; dhum palm, 34, 338, 349; elephant grass, 56; eucalyptus, 201; euphorbia, 196; everlasting plants, 192; fever trees, 306; flamboyant, 221; giant senecios, 192; gladioli, 196; gum tree, 158; henna, 242; hibiscuses, 207, 208; jacarandas, 207, 208; jogoo jogoo tree, 245; juniper, 73; kei-apple thorn, 166; Kikuyu grass, 117; Kirago, 263; leleshwa, 59, 78, 108; mango tree, 58, 214; mangrove, 218, 219; mimosa, 277; mswaki, 198, 199; mushrooms, 196; Muthaiti, 262; olive, 192, 244, (Elgon), 192; orange trees, 203; orchids, 196; papyrus, 197, 201, 204, 305, 306; passion flowers, 202; podo trees, 111, 192; Podocarpus gracilior, 192; pomegranates, 202; roses, 202; salvadora, 242; sansivera, 277, 281, 284, sisal, 2, 84, 85, 110; sodom-apples, 82, 166; stargrass, 190; thorn, 73, 87, 153, 154, 160, 186, 189, 190, 200, 209, 224, 225, 279; toothbrush scrub 198, 199; tortilis, 187; waste-paper flower, 196; wait-a-bit thorns, 72, 186, 192; water-lilies, 197, 306; whistling thorn, 189, 190; white thorn, 277