296 IN THE TORRID SUDAN Lakes. 2, 12, 153, 201 Lai ah fruit, 50 Landscape, African, 49 Language, Nuer, 267 Lau province, 225, 262 Laws, Diuka, 161 Laws, Nuer, 259 Leopard, 53, 60, 105, 137 Lepsius, 25 Life, uncertainty of native, 182 Libyan adventiirei's, 153 Lion, 53, 141, 231, 241, 251 differing character of, 46 at night, 53 lair of, 54 and donkeys, 77, 81 and girafie, 79 roar of, 82, 92, 103, 111 baby, 115 takes a man, 144 stalks a Birabashi, 206 Nuer word for, 267 and telegraph-pole, 286 and Faragallah, 248 Lip ornament, Nuer, 243 Lizards, 186 Lobengula, 58 Looking-glasses and natives, 235, 256 Lul, 194 Lupton Bey, body of, 181 Lur tribe, 267 Lyam Tu Tiaug, 224 M.

Machar Diu, Sheikh, 219, 224 Macrobii, 23 "Magnun" (mad), 256 Magnun Gebel, 127 Mahdi, 2, 19, 32, 33, 38, 39, 77, 99, 279, 285-7 Mahomet, 151 Maize, 187, 246 Maldufa (camel saddle), 35, 121, 130 Malaria, 4, 103 Mantis, 237 Marabout stork, 61, 89, 170, 207 Maori haka, 270 Marakh, 166 Marchand, 12, 174-9 Marid rock, 144 Mark, St., 27 Market, 172, 182 Marshes. See Swamps " Mary Ann," 204, 234, 237 "M'lry Jane," 234 Mashonaland, 18, 31, 40, 113, 171, 212-5, 266 Ma-on-wasps, 40 Matabele, 216 Matrimony, 177, 257, 260 Matting as carpet, 35 Maya, 70-3, 100, 108 Mecca, 184 Mecca of Dinkas and Nuers, 209, 221 261 Medicine, 48, 99, 100, 176 Mehemet Ali, 38 Mehrdi Abu Rof, 39 Mek of Shilluks, 185 Melon, 86 Melut, 163 Memphis, 16, 17, 20, 23 Mena, St., 28 Menthuhetep IIL, 17 Merissa, 48, 139, 191, 273 Meroe, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30-1, 152 Merowe, 15, 20 Meshra (landing-place), 192, 247, 284 Midianites, 22 Migration, habits of, 151 Milk. 152, 242, 264, 273 Mimosa, 74 Miriam, 22 Missionaries, 31, 195, 200-1 Mizraim (Musr). 149 Mohammed (Defterdar), 32 Mohammedanism, 29, 31 Mombottu tribe, 148, 267 Mongalla, 288 Monkeys, 105 Monomotapa, 18 Monuments, 18, 20, 23 et scq. Moon, Arabic for, 163 Mosquitoes, 35, 104, 156, 161, 236, 242, 264 Moses, 22 " Mother," native words for, 267 Mother-of-pearl, 123 Mountain Nile, 15, 190, 200 elepliant on, 45, 84 "sudd," 63, 237 rhinoceros, 113 Dinkas on, 158, 266 bat V. lizard, 186 mission on, 195 " Mountains of the Moon," 26 Mrs. Gray's Waterbuck, 75, 281 Mud, 196, 212 Mule, 35-7, 43, 108, 130, 140 Mummy, 147 "Murder!" 269 Musk, 96 Musr. See Mizraim Mustapha, 41. 68, 103, 106 N. Nabbuk fruit, 49, 50 Nagaa, 24, 25, 28 Names, Nuer, 268