298 IN THE TORRID SUDAN Primitive customs, 151 Productions of country, 5 Provinces, Nuer, 262 Psammeticus I., 23 Ptolemy, geographer, 26 Ptolemaic period, 24-5 Punt, Land of. 19, 138, 149, 151 Pyramids, 17 Pythons, 230 Q.

Queens of Meroe, 24-5 Quinine, 104 R. Races, 7 Race hatred, 219 Rahad River, 44-7. 59, 73 Rakuba, 121 Railways. 14, 164, 289 Rameses II., 21 Raw tit-bits, 108 Red earth as body-paint, 150, 152 Red Sea, 11, 14, 19, 28, 138, 151, 164 Reed-buck, 53-9, 89, 97 Regent's Park, lions at, 115 Religion, 6, 151, 184, 261 Renk, 129, 134. 144-5, 156, 157,158, 170 Reserve, ofBcers' game. 140 Reservoirs, artificial. 140 Rhinoceros, 113-4 Rhinoceros, white, 113 Rhodesia, 49, 57-8. 88. 114. 126, 137, 242 Rifle, -303, forbidden. 35 Rings. Nuer, 274 Roan antelope, 74, 89, 102, 111, 112, 114, 123, 127, 130. 281 Robin, African, 44 Romans, 26, 28. 145 Rope, bark, camel-hair. 42, 166 Roseiros, 38, 129, 131-2 Rubl)(a-, 5. 15, 166 Russell, Rev. Dr., 169 S Saddle-billed stork, 207 St. Mark, 27 Sakkara, 17 Saki.'h, 117 Saladin, 29 Salisbury. Lord, 22 Salt. 8, 184 Salutation, Nuer, 255 Sam r- tree, 166 Sandals, 63, 171, 193 Sand-flies, 186 Scars on natives' backs, 128, 139 Scotland, 49 Seligmann, Dr., 159 Selim, Sultan of Turkey, 31 Selim-el-Aswam, historian, 22 Semites. 152 Semneh. 18, 19 Seneca. 26 Seneferu, 16 Seunaar, 207 province, 15. 287 Fung capital, 30, 38 Poncet's journey, 31 Egypt V. Abyssinia, 32 Gule, town of. 142 forest fires in, 165 progress in, 287 i-ailway to, 289 Sennacherib. 20 Seroot fly, 163-9, 186, 231 Servants, 35, 176, 205 Shabataka, 21 Shackleton, Lieutenant, 246 Shadoofs, 195 Sheep, 183, 256 "Sheikh," 63, 191 Sheikh, privileges of, 261 Shem, 22 Shendi, 38 Shepherd Kings, 18 Shereef, shikari, 100, 110 Shikaris, 35, 55, 110 Shilluks, 16, 154, 168 taxpaying, 20, 191 hunters, 76 adornment, 152, 172 height, 155 character, 173-4 Egyptian conquest, 179 woman, 181 and hippo, 189 at Tewfikieh, 197 widows, 259 corn-crushing, 264 pipes, 273 meslira, 284 Shuli tribe, 154 Silko, Christian King, 28 Sinaitic peninsula, 22 Singa, 15, 36, 49, 71, 95-9. 140, 154, 184 Skin, roughness of Nuer. 242 Skin, pigmented, 62, 121, 151, 159, 272 Slavery posts, 116 Slaves, 17, 116. 257 Slave-traders, 9. 116, 219, 289 Snakes, 102, 229, 233, 265, 284 Soba, 25, 28, 29, 30 Sobat River, 13, 80, 140, 158, 199, 201-9, 219 Social amenities, 257