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INDEX
Abd en-Nebi, Sheik, 1
Abdalla el Yèmeni, Si, of Hodeida, 1, 2
Abdullah es-Salahi Belhajj, chief of the Seraxa, 1
Abyssinia: Harar, 1; raids of Abyssinians into Italian territory, 1 passim;
preparations for war against, 1;
the ras of, 1
Ahmed ben Aissa, husband of Fatma, 1
Ahmed es-Sedd, Hajj, 1
Aissa ben Jahia, male nurse, 1, 2, 3
Aissa ben Ramadan, jack of all trades, 1, 2
Ali ben Hajj Mansûr, 1
Ameglio, General, 1
Anto Alimatú, tracker, 1, 2, 3, 4
Aosta, Duke of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Arabs: and disease, 1; and children, 1;
female worship of the strong male, 1;
attitude to women, 1;
and tea-drinking, 1;
and magic, 1;
and the Berbers, 1;
various tribes of, see Karughla; Mishasha; Mohâjerin; Qouafi; Seraxa
Asmara, Eritrea, 1, 2, 3
Asri, 1
Azdjer Tuaregs, 1, 2 See also Tuaregs
Balbo, Marshal, 1
Bazarà, pearl merchant, 1, 2
Belgassem ben Said, Sidi Hajj, 1
Berbers: belief in salvation through children, 1; origins, 1;
and Arabs, 1;
characters among, 1;
of Ghadames, 1;
matriarchy in ancient communities of, 1
Bet-et-Tassàur, Arabia, 1
Bosu, informer, 1, 2
Buaron, Rebecca, proprietress of Misurata brothel, 1
Bubaker ag Legoui, king of Azdjer Tuaregs, 1, 2, 3
Buerat el Hsun, Libya, 1ff.
Bughesha el Kedda’b, master trickster, 1
Busnina el Fituri, mayor of Buerat el Hsun, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Califa ben Yunea, Berber interpreter, 1, 2
Carrara, Colonel, 1
Chalifer ben Asker, rebel chief, 1, 2, 3, 4
Civil servants, 1
Contraband traffic, 1
Cunama people, 1 passim
Damesa ult Adu, of the Taitôk Tuareg, 1
Digaro’, manservant, 1
Dimadima, n.c.o., 1
Disease, reaction of Arabs to treatment of, 1
Donna Ly, 1
Dorkoyan, café proprietor, 1
Dorkoyan, Madame, 1
Drug traffic, 1
Ehlia, ‘public health officer,’ 1, 2, 3
Eleonora, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Elephant tracking, in Eritrea, 1ff.
Eritrea: government of, 1; Asmara, 1, 2;
women in, 1;
the author a Regional Commissioner in, 1;
bandit raids on frontier of, 1 passim;
elephant tracking in, 1ff.;
Massawa and its people, 1;
and preparations for Abyssinian war, 1
et-Talatin, Hajj, merchant of Ghadames, 1
Farha, wife of Busnina el Fituri, 1
Fatma, Somali woman, 1, 2
Fatma, wife of Ahmed ben Aissa, 1
Fattûma, daughter of Qouafi chief, 1, 2
Fioccardi, Colonel, 1
Fusúda, magician, 1
Gabremariam, Sergeant, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Gabriele, clerk, 1, 2
Ghadames, 1; story of Hajjet-Talatin of, 1
Ghazàla, prostitute, 1
Gmera, prostitute, 1
Graziani, General, 1, 2
Greppi, Count, 1
Hajj Ahmed es-Sed. See Ahmed es-Sed
Harar, 1
Harshah, weaver, 1
Hassuna el Jammâli, 1
Hodeida, Southern Arabia, 1
Ibrahim, 1
Ifoghas tribe (Tuareg), 1
Imanghassàten tribe (Tuareg), 1, 2
Issa ben Yusuf, smuggler, 1, 2
Jemberié Igzaou, manservant, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; background, and his marriage, 1;
summarily displaces author’s other manservant, 1;
on author’s position as chef de cabinet, 1;
death of, 1;
and Hajj Ahmed, 1, 2;
and Neghesti, 1, 2 passim;
and the ras’s jester, 1, 2, 3
Jinns, 1
Julia, 1, 2
Karughla tribe, 1
Kemmeda ag Ermès, 1
Khadijia, prostitute, 1, 2
Khalifa, Captain, 1
Kipling, Rudyard, 1
Koran, the, 1, 2
Lioness kept as pet (‘Neghesti’), 1, 2
Mabrouka, prostitute, 1
Madhun, informer, 1, 2, 3
Magic, 1
Mahadia, prostitute, 1, 2
Mahdi, medical orderly, 1, 2, 3
Mahmud el Gader, 1
Mahmud Ferjiani (Burâs), employed by author, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mangashà Ubié, governor of western territories, 1
Marchesi, Deputy Governor of Tripoli, 1, 2, 3
Massauda, prostitute, 1, 2
Massawa, Eritrea, 1
Matarazzo, Commander, 1
Matriarchy, in Tuareg community, 1
Meriem bent Yusuf, 1
Messaud ben Aissa, head of native officials in the Jebel Nefusah, 1
Mishasha tribe, 1
Missa, Massauda’s servant, 1, 2, 3
Misurata, Libya, 1ff., 2ff.; brothel at, 1
Mizda, Tripolitania, 1, 2
Mné, prostitute, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mohâjerin tribe, 1
Mohamed ed Dernàwi, male nurse, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Mohammed Shushan, chief of the Mishasha, 1
Montgomery, General, 1, 2
Moslems: and Tab’a, 1, 2; and disease and healing, 1;
and magic, 1
See also Arabs
Mula Mulidi, Cunama girl, 1
Nàlut, in the Jebel Nefusah, 1; the Cadi of, 1
Nasi, Governor, 1
Neghesti, pet lioness, 1, 2
Nuri et-Turk, father of Selima, 1, 2
Nuri et-Turk, Selima bent, 1
Ofenàit, Sheik, chief of the Imanghassàten, 1
Omar, manservant, 1, 2 passim
Pagnutti, Lucio, mayor of Tripoli, 1, 2, 3
Paré, Ambroise, 1
Photiadès, Dr Spiro, 1, 2
Pirajno, Alberto Denti di: opens dispensary at Buerat el Hsun, 1ff.; and Lalla Saida, 1;
and Busnina’s wife, 1;
and Arab magic, 1;
sets up dispensary in Misurata, 1ff.;
and the chief of the Seraxa tribe, 1;
and Fattûma of the Qouafi, 1;
and Jemberié Igzaou, 1;
at Harar, 1;
organises politico-administrative districts along Sudan frontier, 1;
chef de cabinet to Duke of Aosta, 1, 2;
hears of death of Jemberié, 1;
and Hajj Ahmed es-Sed, 1;
visits Sliten, 1;
and Rebecca Buaron, 1;
transferred to Berber territory, and his patients there, 1ff.;
and Hajj et-Talatin’s harem at Ghadames, 1;
and his Tuareg patients, 1ff.;
prepares report for Governor of Libya, 1;
and the Bishop of Tripoli, 1;
and the mayor of Tripoli, 1;
ordered to Eritrea, 1;
and Massauda, 1;
appointed a Regional Commissioner in Eritrea, 1;
and the bandits in Eritrea, 1 passim.;
elephant tracking in Eritrea, 1ff.;
attacked by malaria, 1;
and Bughesha el Kedda’b, 1ff.;
in Asmara, 1ff.;
and his pet lioness Neghesti, 1ff.;
and Eritrea’s preparations for the Abys sinian war, 1;
and Neghesti’s death, 1;
and the ras, 1ff.;
Governor of Tripoli, 1;
and the arrival of the British in Tripoli, 1;
and Gen. Montgomery, 1, 2
Pollera, Alberto, 1
Prostitution: Moslem attitude to, 1; th
e Misurata brothel, 1;
in Massawa, 1, 2
Qouafi tribe, 1
Rahina, wife of Messaud ben Aissa, 1
Ramadan es-Shetâwi, rebel chief, 1
Ras, the (prince) of Abyssinia, 1ff.
Rommel, Field Marshal, 1
Saida, Lalla, 1, 2, 3
Salma, prostitute, 1, 2
Sassi, scrivener, 1, 2, 3
Scollo, Professor, 1
Scorpions, 1
Seff en-Nàsser, rebel chief, 1
Selima bent Nuri et-Turk. See Nuri et-Turk
Seraxa tribe, 1
Shaamba tribe (Tuareg), 1
Shamseddin, pilot, 1
Shaoui ag Ibejji, of the Imanghassàten Tuareg, 1, 2
Shoushan (Daud ben Messaud), 1
Si Abdalla el Yèmeni. See Abdalla
Si Baska ag Urzig, brigand, 1
Sidi Abdesselām, sanctuary of, 1
Sitta Mamuna, wife of Hajj et-Talatin, 1
Sliten, sanctuary of Sidi Abdesselām at, 1
Tab’a, 1, 2
Tabhatú, servant, 1 passim
Taddé Bocú, Lance-Corporal, 1 passim
Tahûk, of the Tuareg, 1
Taitôk clan (Tuareg), 1
Talamonti, Colonel, 1
Tallù Ellana, 1
Tara ult Isakàn, of the Imanghassàten, 1, 2
Tea-drinking, among Arabs, 1
Tedeschi, Professor, 1
Tellaé, the ras’s jester, 1
Tesemmà, manservant, 1 passim
Tripoli: Bishop of, 1; Arab mayor of, 1;
arrival of British in, 1;
author appointed Governor of, 1
Tuareg people, 1, 2, 3ff.; character istics, 1;
a matriarchal society, 1;
women and the courts of love, 1;
lack of hygiene, 1;
their Chief, 1;
rebel tribes of, 1;
characters among, 1ff.
Victor Emmanuel III, King, 1, 2
Volpi, Giuseppe, 1
Yàcub ben Daud, 1
Yasmina, prostitute, 1, 2
Zaccharias, bandit chief, 1
Zilukha bent Aissa, sister of Messaud ben Aissa, 1, 2
Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The author with the Duke of Aosta (left) and with Mohamed ed Dernàwi and Aissa ben Jahia (right)
Mizda
Mné
An Abyssinian slave girl
A Berber family at the Nàlut food cells
Massawa
Cunama fantasia: getting ready and the dance
A peasant girl of Tigrinya descent
A Dankali shepherd from Eritrea
The end of the chase
Neghesti
Surrender of Tripoli: the author (left) with General Montgomery
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