Batums 219
beer 55; price of 119
Befang 195
Bell, King 11
Belo of N’gaoundere 268
Benikuma 199, 200–1, 233
Benue lands 199
birth control 30, 58, 82
Bismarck, Otto von, Prince 11
Biya, Paul, President 8, 58, 77
Blacks: and birth rate 82; mental development 221–2; and modern world 107–8; and slave trade 223
bottle discipline 76–7
Britain and Cameroon 11, 13–15
bulls 167–8
bush taxi, travel by 23, 242–5
Cameroon, Mount 249
Cameroon, Republic of agriculture 54, 57–8, 69, 70, 187; AIDS 91, 109, 227–8; demography 30; economy 2–3, 8, 57–8, 212–13; education 78, 117, 189, 218–19, 220–1; government 3; history 7, 9–15; human rights 224; languages 3, 31; literacy 182, 220; political stability 59; public transport 23, 265; reading 220; religion 3, 7, 14–15, 89–90; slave trade 130–1; women in 58, 78
Cameroonian Embassy, London 2–5
Cameroonian Trade Office, London 2
Carothers, J. C. 221
caterpillar plague 217, 219
cattle 167–8
Census officers 137, 149, 152
Cha 230, 256
Chad, refugees from 7
chiefs, power 75
Christianity 89–90
cockroaches 123, 144
colonialism, effects of 12–13
Danieli, cattle–herd 39, 41, 42, 46–7
dash, problems of 48–9, 87, 137, 163, 217
Dave, Somie anthropologist 91–5
Dawa, donkey–owner 181, 182
Death of an Expert Witness ( James) 263
death ceremonies 212
deforestation 64, 67, 68
Deng, Mr, diplomat 4–5
Dijja, Fulani nomad 104–6
Dike, Onwuka 11
divination 92–3
Djem 134–6
Djem river 132
Doi, Fulani cattle–breeder 25–7, 33–6, 38–40, 41
Douala 17–22; history 9–11
driver ants 95, 206
Edinburgh University, seismic survey 236
education 189, 218–19, 220–1; women 78
Egbert, horse 33–5, 40–1; difficulties for 45–6, 125–6, 140, 144; disappears 171–8, 184; found 261–2; returned 273–5; as riding horse 112
Emmanuel, Commander, of Bafmeng 252, 253–5
Essimbi people 199
Eyobo, Reverend 88–91
Fage, J. D. 223
Fang 230, 256
Farmer, Bill 264
Fatah, Fulani nomad 105, 106, 107
financial problems 265
Fons 26, 64, 185, 186, 198, 202–4, 214
Forbidden Ranch 44, 46, 47, 49–55, 56, 61
Foto, Fon of Mukuru 197–9
Fox, Jacqueline 101, 102, 103–7, 275
Fox, John 101–2, 274
France, and Cameroon 11, 13, 20, 86
Franz, Mill Hill priest 100, 101–2
Freund, Bill 15
fufu 21, 39–40
Fulani Jihad (1804) 12
Fulanis: Aghem highland 208–11; appearance 74; and Bantus 103; and cattle 167; education 38; and Germans 12; lifestyle 27; nomads 103–7, 113–14; origins 12; shepherds 166; urban 268; women 38, 46, 135
Fundong 260, 266
Gabriel of Tignere 152, 164
Galim 138, 139, 141, 142–4, 270
Garbaia 145
Garbaia River 145, 146, 148, 149
Garoua 264
Glauning, Captain 72, 219
Grassfields 27, 32, 186; volcanic lakes 230
Greening of Africa, The (Harrison) 68
Gussie, of Wum 225
Hama Aoudi 178–82, 273
Hanno 7, 8
harmattan 84, 150, 153, 157, 168
Harrison, Paul 68
Hatt, John 164
health precautions 159–60
Herodotus 9
Hewett, Edward 11
History of West Africa, A (Fage) 223
hotels, types 18–19
Hughes, David 1, 25, 31, 32, 36
Hughes, Jane 1, 25–7, 29, 33
Ibi, Bantu porter 182–3
Ibrahim Ali 117–18, 124
Id 264, 266–7
Ide 199
Ide people 199–200, 204
Indirect Rule 12, 14
Indonesia, lake explosion 232
Irish potatoes 60
iron industry 93–4
irrigation, problems of 68
Ise 234, 241
Isu 187
Itoe, Mr, immigration official 200–1, 202
Jackson, Mrs G. T. 6–7
Jakiri 65
James, Father, Bafmeng priest 239–41
James, P. D. 263
jammu–jammu 39–40
Jantzen and Thormahlen commercial house 11
Jeremiah, medical man 165, 166
Jihad, see Fulani Jihad
John, Brother, of Bamenda 188
Kamerun 11
Kang, B. T. 70
Karakoram 129–30
Karthala island, lake explosion 232
Kayongo–Male, Diane 222
kebabs 163–4
Kikfuni 55–7, 60
Kima, Kamga 145–8, 159
Kojo, of Djem 135–6
kolanuts 70
Kom, chiefdom of 186
Koncha 149
Koupe, Mount 25
Kumbo 70, 71–2
Kwondjas 98
Laird, MacGregor 10
lakes, spirits in 232
Lamidats 12, 266
Lamidos 152–4, 266
Lingham 88–91
lions 164
Livingstone, David 69
Lloyds 223
Louis, We gendarme 212–13
Ma village 73
MacDonald, Sir Clavel 11
magical dance 214
Mahounde, of Tchabal Mbabo 272
Makelele 124, 126, 127–9, 182, 271, 272–4
Makia, Mr, of Lingham 88, 89, 91
Making of Contemporary Africa, The (Freund) 15
malaria 2, 100, 101–2, 111, 260
Manga, of Nthambaw 75–6, 77–8
Mankon Confederation 186
Manoun, Lake 32, 258
maps 20. 31–2, 185
markets 29, 111–12, 271
Maroua 264
Martin, Nyos youth 243–4
Mayo Darle 98–100, 101–3, 108–12, 274
Mayo Darle river 98, 99
Mayo Kelele river 127
Mayo Kelele village, see Makelele
Mayo Mbambi 117, 124
Mayo Wolkossam river 149–50
Mba 116–17
Mbabo 130, 180
Mbabo mountains 32, 79, 121, 168
Mbambo, Babale 178–82
Mbembe Forest Reserve 185, 250
Mbiti, John 92, 228, 262
Mechanic, Mohamed 147, 148, 163
medicine–men 192, 213–14, 216–17, 225–6, 228
Metchum Falls 194
Metchum River 195–6
Metchum valley 185, 186–7, 194–6, 199, 201, 204, 206
milking 167
mimbu 187, 192–3
Mind of Man in Africa, The (Carothers) 221–2
minibus travel 22–3
missionaries 102
Mme 185
Moctar, Yaya 101, 111–12, 275
Modele 199
Mohamadou Ali 132, 133–5
Moscow, glasnost 5–6
Moses, of Djem 134, 135, 136
mosquito bites 161
Mukuru 196, 197–9
Muslims: sects 40, women 38, 46
Nachtigal, Dr 11
nagana 69
Ndango, Joseph 188–9
ndengi instrument 203
Ndu 73
Ndung 188, 189–90, 191–4
Neu
ke, of Acha 58–60, 64
N’gaoundere 32, 164, 263, 264, 266–8
Ngonba, Nicodemus 141–2, 143
Ngu village 83
Ngu, Bernard 191–4
Njupi, Lake 236–7
Nkambe 232, 233, 234; nomads 103–7, 113–14
Norbert, Douala gendarme 257–8,259
Nsop 80
Ntem 73, 81–3
Nthambaw 79, 84–8
ntul rite 64
Nyos, Lake 234–6; explosion 32, 230–2, 235, 236, 237–41, 243–4, 249–50, 256–7, 258
Nyos village 234, 238–9, 248, 249
Nyos–Acha 234
Ocu, Lake 62, 63–4, 65, 233, 235; Fons 64
Ocu, Mount 58, 208
Onambele, Dr 213–14, 215–17
Onyango, Philista 222
pap 211
Papa, Wum medicine–man 225–7
Park, Mungo 80, 94, 112, 123, 137, 159, 220
Parkinson, John 31, 185, 261, 263
Parkinson, Joy 31, 185, 193, 261, 262, 263
Peres, Shimon 250
Peter, Father, Bafmeng priest 255, 256, 257
Podevin, G. S. 13
polygamy 77
prostitution 108–10, 155
public holidays 264
public transport 23, 265
racialism 224–5
Rahim, cattle–herd 50
rail travel 265
rainfall 67
Ralph, Bamenda teacher 185, 186, 187
Ramadan 179, 181, 183, 210–11
reading 220
Republic of Cameroon, see Cameroon
Restricted Zone 232, 242, 244, 247, 250, 258
Ribao 96
Ryle, Martin 255
Sabongari 74, 83–6
St Augustine’s College 71–2
salt trade 9
Sama, of Tignere 152, 153, 155, 156
Sambolabbo 117–23, 129, 160, 183
slave trade 9–10, 130–1
sleeping–sickness 69
soil erosion 67–8
Somie 91–5
Sonkalong 88
Special Security Police (ssP) 245, 248
spider divination 91–3
storms 65–7, 251–2, 267
Subum 230, 241, 256
taboos, and monogamy 80
Tabor, Steve 258–9, 260
Tahoun, Felix 231
Tchabal Gangdaba 32, 149, 152, 156–7, 161–2, 165
Tchabal Mbabo 116, 117, 129–30, 137, 138, 143, 144, 148, 149, 164–5, 168, 208; beauty of 129, 272; milk bars 167; population 25, 32
Tchaou, Professor 231
Tignere 138, 150–5, 156, 269
Tikela, of Tignere 153–4, 155
time, African concept of 228–9
toothache 260, 262–3, 264
‘Top’ drinks 55, 144
Tourak 148
Travels in Africa (Park) 80
‘tribe’, use of 156
Tripoli 8
Tropical Traveller, The (Hatt) 164
tropical ulcers 260, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268
trypanosomiasis 68–9
tsetse fly 68–9
Turace, Colombia 232
umbrellas 188
Uthman don Fodio 12
Vina river 265
visas, problems with 3–4, 36–7, 150–1, 200–1, 220, 224, 227, 229, 2456, 249
volcanic lakes 32, 230
Walter, Father, of Tignere 155, 269
water, problems with 23–4, 154, 159–60
Watt, James 223
We 211–17
White travellers 123
Whites, racialism 224–5
Woermann commercial house 10, 11
Wogomdou 141–2, 270–1
women: education 78; infertility 108–9; role 58
Wouri estuary 9
Wum 185, 187, 199, 206, 217, 218, 219–20, 224–9, 231, 232, 242, 247–51; bush–taxi to 242–5; prison 245–7
Wum, Lake 217–18
Yaounde 263–5; conference on Lake Nyos 230–1, 232; University 86
Yaya, see Moctar
Yoni 111, 112
Zambo, Nomo 58, 59, 64
Zintgraff, German explorer 11