John Boyes, king of the Wa-Kikuyu : a true story of travel and adventure in Africa
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John Boyes, king of the Wa-Kikuyu : a true story of travel and adventure in Africa
（Cass library of African studies, . General studies ; no. 55）
Frank Cass, 2006
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"First edition 1911, new impression 1968, transferred to digital printing, 2006" -- T.p. verso
Includes index
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This is an account of the "adventures" of a Yorkshireman, his early life as a sailor, participation in the Matabele War, and his largely succesful attempts to unite the Kikuyu tribe. It was first published in 1911.
Table of Contents
- Early youth
- I run away to sea on a fishing-boat
- hardships of the life
- take service on a tugboat
- life on board a tramp
- first view of tropical African coast
- a collision at sea
- land at Durban, 1895. I work my way up-country to Matabeleland
- employed as fireman on engine
- reach Johannesburg
- trek the rest of the way to Bulawayo on foot
- take service in the Matabeleland Mounted Police
- join the Africander Corps engaged in putting down the rebellion
- go into trade in Bulawayo
- return to the coast
- I take to the stage
- work my way on an Arab dhow to Mombassa, February 1898
- cool official reception. 1898 - determine to organize a transport caravan on the Uganda Railway route to carry provisions for the collies working on the railway
- man-eating lions at railway construction camps
- reach the borderland of the Masai and Kikuyu tribes
- desertion of my men
- return to Railhead
- start out again with convoys for Uganda
- loss of my transport animals
- decide to enter the Kikuyu country. Government official tries to prevent me going into the Kikuyu country
- give the official the slip
- my first acquaintance with the Kikuyu
- meet Karuri, the Kikuyu chief
- hospitable reception
- Kikuyu village attacked because of my presence in it
- I help to beat off the attack
- successful trading
- build a house in the Kikuyu village
- native theory as to the origin of the Kikuyu race
- I help defend my Kikuyu friends from hostile raids and beat off the enemy
- benefit of my conciliatory counsels
- Pigasangi and blood-brotherhood. Am established in the country
- native festivities and dances
- troubadours
- musical quickness of the natives
- dearth of musical instruments
- my attempts at military organization
- hostile rumours
- preparations for resisting attack
- great battle and defeat of the attacking tribes
- victory due to skilful tactics of my Kikuyu force
- succeed in taking a large convoy of provisions into the starving government stations
- white men attacked and killed
- am supreme in the tribe
- native poisons
- although I am supplying the government stations with food, I get no recognition at the hands of the officials. (Part contents).
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