Ramazani, Selous’s gun-bearer, 170 Rank and file, 233 Rations, Gen. Sheppard on, 147 Rations very short, 96, 104 Rearguard skirmish, 72 Rearguards harass advance, 108, 131 Reconnaissance flanking Ruhungu, 115 Reconnaissance, Maktau, 27 Red Sea, 13 Reedbuck, 133, 142, 203 Rhinoceros, 27, 28, 30, 204 Rhodesians, 2nd, 93 Routine in camp, 26, 36 Routing the raiders, 60 Rovuma River, Germans cross, 199 Royal Fusiliers, 25th, 67, 177, 193 Rubber plantations, 76, 176 Rufiji, enemy retreat to, 170 Rufiji, postponed advance to, 144 Rufiji River, north of, 125 Ruhungu, operations fail, 119 Russongo River, 121 Ruwu River (Kahe front), 78, 82 Ruwu River (Ulugúru Mts.), 127 Ryan, Martin, 3, 158 Saidi-bin-Mohammed, 43 Sanja River, 73 Scouting, night, 30 Selous, F. C., 2, 162, 169 Sheep hills, 69 Shelled by naval guns, 92, 110, 196 Shell-fire, prolonged, 114, 196 Sheppard, Gen., 93, 106, 147, 165 Shombole Mountain, 56 Sickness depletes gun-teams, 142 Sickness, food shortage causes, 38 Single-handed adventure, 44 Sleep in mud and water, 85 Sleep lost and overtaxed, 89 Smuts, Gen., C.-in-C., 68 Smuts, Gen., pressing forward, 95, 104, 121 Snakes, 223 Snowfall on Kilimanjaro, 35 Soko-Nassai River, 80 Soldiers underfed, underclothed, 146 Somali mules, 44 Sounds, African, 31 South African troops coming, 41 Southern Cross, 28 South Pare mountains, 93 Ssangeni, 106 Ssonjo, 108 Starving natives, 196 Stations, frontier, 17 Steamship craft, lake, 20 Stores abandoned, 132 Storks, 34 Suez Canal, 11 Sunburn, extreme, 169 Supply difficulties, adding to, 126 Surrender, Tafel’s force, 199 Swahili-speaking tribes, 200 Tabora, Belgian force occupy, 124 Tafel’s force surrender, 199 Tandamuti, attack fails on, 187 Tandamuti front clear, 191 Tanga clear, railway to, 103 Taveta base, 88 Telegraph wires cut, 150 Thorn trees, 98 Tieta hills, 30 Tobacco, out of, 148 Trackless country, 69 Tragic end, 199 Transport difficulties, 75, 104, 113 Transport attacked, 189 Trees, thorn, 98 Trolley line, 103, 180 Troopship, 4, 5 Tsetse fly, 221 Tulo, 132 Tulo, delayed at, 140 Uganda railway, 17, 42 Ulugúru mountains, operations in, 125 Ulugúru mountains, seeking road, 154 Unhealthy area, a very, 140, 197 Usambara railway, enemy leaving, 103 Usambara railway, west of, 88, 93 Van Deventer’s, Gen., column, 81, 124 Van Deventer, Gen., C.-in-C., 176 Victoria Nyanza Lake, 19 Voi Railway mined, 26 Von Lettow crosses Rovuma River, 199 Von Lettow, forces under, 176 Wami River, fight at, 122 War material, 226 Watch-dog’s duties, 17 Water, 18, 48, 194 Waterbuck, 142, 203 Waterless wilderness, 45 Waterloo station, 1 Whirlpools, 48 White troops leave country, 144 Wilderness and night, 47