- Abbas Hilmi II, 112.
- Abyssinia, 10.
- Africanders, 226.
- Agriculture in: French Africa, 24;
- German Africa, 181;
- Morocco, 32;
- Rhodesia, 214;
- South Africa, 234;
- the Sudan, 128;
- Tripolitania, 85-86.
- Ahaggar (Sahara), 24.
- Alexandria, bombardment of, 111.
- Algeria, 3, 9, 14, 16.
- Algerian hinterland, 57.
- Algiers, 10.
- Americans in: Rhodesia, 217-8;
- the Transvaal, 237.
- Anglo-German secret treaty, 178-9.
- Angola, 177-8.
- Antanarivo, 9.
- Arab: justice, 75;
- resistance to Italian rule, 98;
- weddings, 78;
- women, 77.
- Arabi Pasha, 110.
- Arabi's rebellion, 111.
- Archanais (Crete), 283.
- Artesian wells in the Sahara, 22.
- Ascension Island, 269.
- Ashantee, 254.
- Assuan dam, 123.
- Atlas Mountains, 31.
- Aujila oases, 88.
- Bagirmi, 100.
- Barbary Coast, 8.
- Barka (Tripolitania), 87.
- Barnato, Barney, 243.
- Barotseland, 196.
- Beira (Port. East Africa), 206 et seq.
- Beit, Alfred, 193.
- Belgian Congo, 176-7;
- communications in, 187;
- reversion of, 177.
- Benghazi (Tripolitania), 84, 87.
- Berbers, 36.
- Bey of Tunis, 64.
- Big game in Rhodesia, 196.
- Biskra (Algeria), 60.
- “Blue tongue,” 232.
- Boers, 226.
- Bornu, 100.
- Botha, General Louis, 233 et seq.
- Bridge over the Zambezi, 194.
- British in: Egypt, 111 et seq.;
- South Africa, 223 et seq.
- British South Africa Company, 212.
- Broken Hill (Rhodesia), 194.
- Bulawayo (Rhodesia), 190.
- Bwana M'kubwa (Rhodesia), 194.
- Candia (Crete), 280 et seq.
- Canea (Crete), 272 et seq.
- Cannibalism, 253.
- “Cape-to-Cairo” Railway, 190 et seq.
- Cape Town, 203, 227.
- Capitulations, privileges conferred by Ottoman, 113.
- Caravans, 17, 19, 91.
- Ceuta (Morocco), 47.
- Chartered companies, 212.
- Colomb-Bechar (Morocco), 8.
- Colour problem in South Africa, 226-8.
- Consuls, powers of, in Egypt, 114 et seq.
- Cost of living in Rhodesia, 217.
- Cotton culture in: Egypt, 124;
- the Sudan, 142.
- Country clubs, beneficial effects of, in Rhodesia, 216.
- Crete, 272 et seq.;
- administration of, 275;
- foreign troops in, 279-280;
- hospitality in, 283-4;
- insurrections in, 274.
- Crime in South Africa, 229.
- Crispi, 92.
- Cromer, Lord, 117.
- Cullinan, “The Great,” diamond, 239.
- Cyrenaica, 87.
- Dahomey, 4, 9, 25.
- Dakar (Senegal), 11, 53.
- Dam at Assuan, 202.
- Dancing girls, 58 et seq.
- Dar-es-Salam (German East Africa), 185.
- DeBeers syndicate, formation of, 243.
- Delta of the Nile, 124.
- Derna, capture of, by Americans, 83.
- Desert: reclamation, 21;
- transportation, 23.
- Diamond: fields at Kimberley, 242;
- mining, 234 et seq.
- Dining-cars on “Cape-to-Cairo” Ry., 219.
- Diré-Dawah (Abyssinia), 10.
- Divorce: court in Tunis, 71;
- in Algeria, 70.
- Djibouti (French Somali Coast), 9.
- Drainage project in Egypt, 124.
- Dutch in South Africa, 224.
- Eaton's, Gen. William, capture of Derna, 83.
- Education in French Africa, 6.
- Egypt, 108 et seq.;
- army, 118;
- education, 120;
- future of, 141;
- government, 111 et seq.;
- irrigation, 122;
- justice, 113, 116;
- Khedive, 112, 116, 117, 124;
- land values in, 121.
- Egyptian Debt Commission, 112.
- El Araish (Morocco), 48.
- England's desire for railway zone in German Africa, 198.
- Execution in Tunis, 65.
- Fantasias, 16.
- Fashoda: see Kodok.
- Fevers in East Africa, 152.
- Fez (Morocco), 9.
- Fezzan (Tripolitania), 84, 86.
- Flowers in Morocco, 33.
- Foreign Legion, 15.
- France's African army, 12-14.
- Franco-Spanish treaty, 46.
- French: Africa, 1 et seq.;
- colonial expansion, 1 et seq.;
- Congo (see French Equatorial Africa);
- Equatorial Africa, 4;
- Guinea, 4, 9;
- Sahara, 5;
- Somali Coast, 5;
- sphere of influence, 2 et seq.;
- steamers, 11;
- treatment of natives, 16, 42, 75.
- German Africa, 165 et seq.;
- climate of, 180;
- railways in, 179.
- German colonial expansion, 166;
- desire for the Congo, 176 et seq.;
- desire for Zanzibar, 164;
- East Africa, 175, 185-6;
- trade of, 186;
- interests in Morocco, 172.
- German militarism in Africa, 182, 186;
- overseas banks, 168-170;
- treatment of the natives, 182-4;
- Southwest Africa, 175.
- Germany's foreign policy, 171-2;
- oversea interests, 170.
- Golf in Zanzibar, 149.
- Gordon, General Charles George, 203.
- Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum, 140.
- Great Bend of the Niger, 9.
- “Groote Schuur ,” the home of Cecil Rhodes, 223.
- Guano islands, 257.
- Harbours: in French West Africa, 10;
- in German Southwest Africa, 188.
- Harems, life in, 69 et seq.
- Hay's, Sir John Drummond, speech to Sultan of Morocco, 44.
- Heraklian. (See Candia.)
- Hicks-Beach, Sir Michael, and Cecil Rhodes, 192.
- Illicit diamond buying, 244.
- Irrigation in: Egypt, 122;
- French North Africa, 21;
- South Africa, 233;
- Sudan, 21, 128.
- Ismail Pasha, 108 et seq.
- Italy in Africa, 80 et seq.
- Ivory Coast, 4, 9.
- Ivory: market in Zanzibar, 153;
- trade, 153 et seq.
- Jamestown (Saint Helena), 262-4.
- Jimini (Ivory Coast), 9.
- Jof (Sahara), 99 et seq.
- Johannesburg, 203, 235 et seq.
- Kabyle marriage customs, 68.
- Kabyles, the, 65 et seq.;
- sale of their daughters by, 66.
- Kabylia (Algeria), 65.
- Kamerun, 173-6.
- Kamerun, New, 173-6.
- Kanem (French Sudan), 5, 9, 100.
- Kangas , 154.
- Karroo, the, 233.
- Katanga District (Belgian Congo), 195-6.
- Keetmanshoop (German Southwest Africa), 188.
- Khalifa, the, 20, 197.
- Khartoum, 138 et seq.
- King Assibi of the Gold Coast, 254.
- King Kabanga of Uganda, 254.
- King Minos of Crete, 282.
- King Prempeh of Ashantee, 254 et seq.
- Kitchener, Lord, of Khartoum, 112, 118.
- Knossos, ruins of, 282.
- Kodok (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 20.
- Kosti (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 198.
- Kourassa (French Guinea), 9.
- Krüger, President Paul, 238.
- Kufra Oases, 88, 99.
- Kumasi (Ashantee), 254.
- Labor, demand for, in Rhodesia, 218.
- Lake No, 137.
- Lake Tanganyika, 187.
- Lake Tchad, 9.
- Language problem in South Africa, 224.
- Laraiche. (See El Araish.)
- Liberia, 3.
- Libya, 80 et seq.
- Livingstone, David, finding of, by Stanley, 151.
- Livingstone's discovery of Victoria Falls, 210.
- Lobenguela, 211.
- Lobito Bay Railway, 179, 201.
- “Longwood,” residence of Napoleon, 266.
- Lualaba River, 187.
- Lüderitz Bay (German Southwest Africa), 188.
- Madagascar, 5, 9, 12.
- Mahé (Seychelles), 248 et seq.
- Majunga (Madagascar), 9.
- Mannesmann Brothers in Morocco, 173.
- Marchand, Major, and the Fashoda incident, 20.
- Marrakesh (Morocco), 30.
- Mashonaland, 209.
- Matabeleland, 190.
- Mauresque women, 67-69.
- Mauritania, 4.
- Méharistes, 18.
- Melilla (Morocco), 47.
- Meroe, Island of (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 138.
- Mineral resources of South Africa, 234.
- Mohammedanism, spread of, in Africa, 95 et seq.
- Moorish character, 38.
- Moors, the, 36.
- Morals of Europeans in East Africa, 157.
- Morocco, 27 et seq.;
- agriculture, 32;
- climate, 33;
- flowers, 33;
- future of, 41, 54;
- natural resources, 34;
- railways projected in, 52;
- slavery in, 51;
- travel in, difficulties of, 35.
- Morocco City. (See Marrakesh.)
- Morocco-Equatoria Convention, 165.
- Mount Ida (Crete), 281.
- Mozambique, 178.
- Mulai-abd-el-Hafid, ex-Sultan of Morocco, 28.
- Mulai Youssef, Sultan of Morocco, 41.
- Napoleon's exile on Saint Helena, 259 et seq.
- Natal, 234.
- Native: labor in South African mines, 243;
- troops in French Africa, 13.
- Natives: treatment of Rhodesian, 218;
- treatment of South African, 229.
- New Kamerun, 5, 173-6.
- Nikki (Dahomey), 9.
- Nile, the, 122;
- as agent of prosperity, 21;
- plan to divert the, 20.
- Oases, Saharan, 24.
- Oasis of: Kaouer, 24;
- Kufra, 88, 99;
- Jof, 99 et seq.;
- Tuat, 52.
- Omdurman (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 126.
- Orange River Free State, 224.
- Otavi District (German Southwest Africa), 188.
- Ouled-Naïls, 56 et seq.
- Papal assistance to Italy in taking of Tripolitania, 92.
- Parliament of Union of South Africa, 227.
- Port Florence (British East Africa), 200.
- Portugal in Africa, 177.
- Portuguese East Africa, 178.
- Premier Diamond Mine, 239.
- Pretoria (Transvaal), 238.
- Race problem in South Africa, 225.
- Railway: “Afro,” 52, 179;
- “Cape-to-Cairo,” 190 et seq.;
- Lobito Bay, 179, 201;
- Otavi, 188;
- Uganda, 200.
- Railways in: Abyssinia, 10;
- Algeria, 8;
- Central Africa, 190;
- French Africa, 8;
- German Africa, 179;
- Morocco, 52;
- Rhodesia, 219;
- the Sahara, 8;
- the Sudan, 131-3;
- West Africa, 9.
- Rand, the, 235.
- Rejaf (Uganda), 137.
- Réunion, 12.
- Rhodes, Cecil John, 190 et seq., 211, 212.
- Rhodes Memorial near Cape Town, 203.
- Rhodesia, 205 et seq.;
- agriculture, 214;
- climate, 209, 213-4;
- cost of living in, 217;
- country clubs in, 216;
- future of, 222;
- government, 212;
- labour, demand for skilled, 217;
- law and order in, 214;
- natives, 218;
- railways, 219;
- resources, 214.
- Riff, the (Morocco), 46-48.
- Rinderpest, 232.
- Rogers, American adventurer, 151.
- Sahara, 18, 21.
- Saint Helena, 258 et seq.
- Saint Pierre Island, 257.
- Salisbury, Lord, 192.
- Salisbury (Rhodesia), 213.
- Sand storms, 132.
- Sea turtles, 272.
- Sebu River (Morocco), 32.
- Senegal, 4.
- Senegambia, 25.
- Senussi, the sheikh, 99 et seq.
- Senussiyeh, Brotherhood of, 98 et seq.
- Seychelles, 248 et seq.;
- climate of, 251;
- housekeeping in, 252-3.
- Sharef River (Morocco), 32.
- Sherifian dynasty, 42.
- Slavery in North Africa, 73.
- Sleeping-sickness, 213.
- Sobat River, 20.
- Sokoto (Nigeria), 100.
- South Africa, Union of, 223 et seq.;
- agriculture, 234;
- colour problem in, 226-8;
- diamond-mining, 234 et seq.;
- future of, 246;
- language problem in, 224;
- mineral resources of, 234;
- need of irrigation in, 233;
- race problem in, 225;
- treatment of natives in, 228-231.
- Spanish sphere of influence in Morocco, 46.
- Sphakiote Mountains (Crete), 281.
- Stanley, Henry M., 151, 211.
- Sudan, the Anglo-Egyptian, 126 et seq. ;
- agriculture, 128;
- future of, 141;
- government, 127;
- railways, 131-3.
- Sudd, the, 137.
- Suez Canal, 141.
- Sultan of Morocco, 41.
- Sultan of Turkey, 96.
- Sultan of Zanzibar, 160 et seq.
- Sus, the (Morocco), 46, 49.
- Swahili: language, 156;
- race, 154.
- Swakopmund (German Southwest Africa), 188, 200.
- Table Mountain (Cape of Good Hope), 203.
- Tamatave (Madagascar), 9.
- Tangier (Morocco), 10, 43, 54.
- Teneriffe (Canary Islands), 271.
- Tewfik Pasha, 110.
- Tibesti (Sahara), 24.
- Timbuktu (Upper Senegal-Niger Territories), 8, 9, 53.
- Tippoo Tib, 151.
- Tobruk (Tripolitania), 87.
- Togoland, 175.
- Tortoise shell from Saint Pierre, 257.
- Transvaal, 235.
- Treatment of women in North Africa, 74-79.
- Tripoli (Tripolitania), 84-89.
- Tripolitania, 80 et seq.;
- future of, 88, 105;
- trade of, 91.
- Tsetse-fly, 208, 213.
- Tuaregs, 99.
- Tuat (Sahara), 52.
- Tunisia, 3.
- Tunisian justice, 64.
- Tunisian perfumery, 67.
- Turkish Sultan's influence in Africa, 96.
- Uganda Railway, 200.
- Ujda (Morocco), 9.
- Ujiji (German East Africa), 187.
- Umtali (Mashonaland), 209.
- United States in Africa, 82 et seq.
- Upper Senegal-Niger Territories, 4.
- Vasco da Gama, 143.
- Victoria (Seychelles), 254.
- Victoria Falls, 194, 210, 220 et seq.
- Victoria Nyanza, 198, 203.
- Wadai, 5, 9, 100.
- Wady Haifa (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 137.
- Walfish Bay (German Southwest Africa), 188.
- Women of North Africa, 56 et seq.
- “World's View” (Cape of Good Hope), 203.
- Zambezi River, 221.
- Zanzibar, 143 et seq.;
- climate, 146;
- future of, 163;
- German desire for, 164;
- hotel accommodation in, 146-7;
- ivory market in, 153;
- natives of, 154;
- Sultan of, 160 et seq.;
- tropical diseases in, 152.
- Ziban, the (Algerian Sahara), 57.
- Zulus, 229.
About This Book
The author presents a travel-report and historical survey of European colonial expansion into Africa, combining eyewitness sketches, regional history, and commentary on imperial practice. The narrative moves across deserts, coasts, and jungles to depict railway building, irrigation and land development, military and administrative presences, and encounters with local communities, highlighting the hardships and ambitions of pioneers and settlers. It surveys motives and methods—economic opportunity, strategic control, and civilizing rhetoric—and records the practical consequences of empire on landscapes, trade routes, and indigenous societies, illustrated with maps and descriptive plates.