CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
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In Search of a New Site 27
CHAPTER II
Settling at Monsembe 38
CHAPTER III
Struggles with the Language 48
CHAPTER IV
Early Days at Monsembe 65
CHAPTER V
Arts and Crafts and Native Industry 79
CHAPTER VI
Customs: Some Curious and some Cruel 96
CHAPTER VII
Social Life and Organization 107
12CHAPTER VIII
Marriage and Child-bearing 122
CHAPTER IX
Native Education 140
CHAPTER X
Native Games and Pastimes 149
CHAPTER XI
A Page of Native History 159
CHAPTER XII
Native Government and the Natives 169
CHAPTER XIII
Native Laws, Crimes, and Ordeals 179
CHAPTER XIV
Mythology and Folk-Lore 197
CHAPTER XV
War 222
CHAPTER XVI
Hunting 229
13CHAPTER XVII
Fishing 235
CHAPTER XVIII
Religious Beliefs 246
CHAPTER XIX
The Boloki World of Spirits 261
CHAPTER XX
Medicine Men and their Magic 276
CHAPTER XXI
Taboos and Curses 294
CHAPTER XXII
Native Charms and their Uses 302
CHAPTER XXIII
Death and Burial 314
CHAPTER XXIV
Native Diseases and their Treatment 324
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