INDEX

Accidents, 331, 333

Adultery, 128, 161

African International Association, 20

Albinos, 325

Ancestors, 268

Arts and crafts, 83; leather-work, 84; string-making, 85; bark-cloth, 86; pottery, 87; metal-work, 89, 90; salt-making, 91; songs, 93; carpentering, 95

Astronomy, knowledge of, 141; beliefs re sun, moon, and stars, 142

Bangala tribe, the, 18, 27, 161; language, 48; station, 48; district, 161

Bantu tribe, the, 159, 160

Bark-cloth, 86

Barter, system of, 143; and currency, 39

Belgian mal-administration, 20; atrocities, 24, 25

“Bespoke” money, 123

Blood-brotherhood, 72, 73, 100, 226

Blood-feuds, 99, 181

Bokomela tribe, the, 31, 32

Bolobo, 202

Bomuna tribe, the, 161, 162, 163, 250

Bonjoko, 99

“Books,” superstitions concerning, 40, 46, 47, 74

Boys, training of, 143, 145

Brass rods, 39 n.

Bread-making, 335

Bride-price, the, 123

Building, methods of, 65

Bumba, 34, 35

Bungundu Tribe, the, 28, 29, 30

Burial alive, 103, 320, 319; burial customs, 104, 105

Bush-burning, 229, 230

“Bush-people,” the, 19

Cannibalism, 31, 69, 70, 78, 104

Charms, 145, 146, 147, 232, 255, 280, 287, 302

Child-bearing, beliefs concerning, 129, 130, 131

Children, twins, 130, 132, 133, 141, 273, 290

Circumcision, 298

Cloud-folk, 274

Coffins, 317

Congo boy in England, 79

Congo Free State, the, 20

Congo, reforms in the, 25; Bolobo Mission, 28; Basin, 159; River, 161, 236

Cookery, difficulties of, 44; native, 117

Corpses, decoration of, 316; smoking of, 317

Counting, Boloki method of, 142, 339-348

Court of justice, 183

Crimes, native, 179

Curiosity, native, 74

Curses, native, 299-301

Customs, 26, 102, 103; marriage, 122, 171, 179; burial, 314

Crocodiles, 332

Dancing, 119, 120, 227, 321

Death, three causes of, 314; life after, 321

Diboko (Nouvelles Anvers), 48, 161, 163

Diseases, 269, 325, 344, 345; diagnosis of, 330

Disembodied spirits, 250, 263, 267

Divorce, 128

Dogs, hunting, 233

Dreams, 262

Drunkenness, 101

Eboko, 114, 126

Education, 75, 140, 143

Explosion, an, 316

351Families, social status of, 170

Feasts, 104

Fetishes, 252-256; fetish bell, 292, 302

Fish collecting for the Museum, 235; traps, 236-244

Floods, 231

Folk-lore, 197-221

Food, 117, 160

Funeral ceremonies, 322

Game, 230, 231

Games, 149-158

Goats, present of two, 44

Government, democratic, of Boloki tribe, 172

Government, ideal of European, 26; native, 169

Graves, 318

Healers of special diseases, 327

Hospitality, 117, 137

Hospitals, 334

Houses, native, 43

Human sacrifices, 97, 263

Hunting, 145, 229-234

Immorality, 147

Inheritance, laws of, 111, 182

Insanity, 173, 291

Islands, 165

Jando, 272

Judge, the chief, 179

Justice, native ideas of, 182; court of, 183-186; author as judge, 192; typical cases, 193-196

Kiteke tribe, the, 257 n.

Labour, 114

Libinza Lake, 161, 162, 163, 165

Land, communal rights of, 109

Language, “trade,” 48; Bangala, 48, 50-54, 57-64, 336, 339

Laws, native, 170, 179

Leather-work, 84

Leopold II, King of Belgium, 20, 25

Longa, 107, 202, 249

Love philtres, 286

Lower Congo, the men of, 160, 162, 230, 246, 251, 254, 257, 267, 276, 230, 314, 335

Lupus in the Congo, 73 n.

Makwata and his talking spear, 278

Manga, 100, 101

Mangumbe, 264

Massage, 327

Mata, 122, 170, 171; Bwiki, 163, 169

Matadi, 19

Mayeya’s long dive, 277

Meat, mode of preserving, 232

Medicine men, and witch-doctors and magic, 95, 97, 102, 103, 232, 251, 258

Medicine, native, 327, 276, 280, 284, 293, 311, 324

Metal-work, 89, 90

Migration of native tribes, 162

Milk-brotherhood, 132

Mission on the Congo, 137

Mokwete, story of, 118

Monanga, 170

Monogamy, 138, 139

Monoka mwa Nkoi, 166

Monsembe District, the, 34, 36, 159, 163, 231

Monsters, mythical, 273

Mourning, signs of, 320, 321

Moon, beliefs concerning, 142, 248

Mother-in-law, the, 133, 134

Mungala Creek, the, 163, 164; river, 164

Munyata, murder of, 164

Murder, punishment for, 181; detection of murderer, 310

Musuku, 22

Natives, characteristics of, 17, 23, 24, 25, 117, 174, 176, 177

Nether world, the, 321

Nouvelles Anvers Station, 48, 161, 163

Nursing the sick, 316

Nzambi, 247

Omens, 131, 226, 227, 233, 262

Ordeals, poison, 182, 185-189; various, 190, 191

Palavers, 191

Peace, the steamer, 27

Pictures, learning to read, 173

Pioneers, early Christian, 22 n.

Polygamy, 125, 134, 135, 136, 139

Portuguese Roman Catholic Mission, 24 n.

Pottery, 87

Purification, rite of, 102

Raiding expeditions, 166

352Railways, the narrow-gauge, 19

Rain-doctors, 96, 280

Religious beliefs, 246, 249, 250, 251, 252, 254, 255, 257, 258, 263

Reincarnation, belief in, 130, 198

River rights, 110

Rivers: Congo, 161, 237; Mobangi, 161; Welle, 161; Nrgiri, 165; Mungala, 164

San Salvador, 17, 22, 258

Salt-making, 91

Salutations, 107

Skulls, use of, 323

Slaves, 110, 111, 113, 125, 170

Sleeping-sickness, treatment, 289

Smallpox, native cure for, 288

Smith, a native, 90

Snake omen, the, 131, 226

Songs, native, 92, 93, 120

Spirits: belief in, 98, 250, 261; disembodied, 263; fear of, 266; deception of, 267; effect of, 268; of disease, 269, 325; transference into criminals, 271, 282; of wealth, 271; of the bush, 274; transference into spears, 274; in trees, 275; of the saucepan, 286; possession, 328

Sport, native, 144, 239

Stanley Pool, 19

String-making, 85

Suicide, 322

Superstitions, 40, 46, 131, 167, 176, 197, 227, 232, 248, 323

Swimming, 144

Taboos, 84, 114, 294; permanent, 196; temporary, 297; removal of, 298, 326

Tattooing, 140, 141, 167

Teeth, chiselling of, 141

Theft, 147, 175, 180; detection of thief, 310

Time, system of reckoning, 142

Trade and currency, 114, 115, 143

Trade routes, 21, 22

Trading factories, 22

Transmigration, 197

Traps, game, 145, 233, 234, 236

Tribal marks, 167

Totems, 131, 132, 147, 294

Twins, treatment of, 130

“Undertakers,” native, 317

Upper Congo, 17, 49, 129, 230, 237, 246, 280, 332

Villages, 115

Virgins, 136

Vocabulary, collecting a, 50-54, 57-61

War, tribal, 68, 116; the family fight, 222; the town fight, 224

Weapons, 227, 228

Wine: sugar-cane, 100, 254, 322, 335; palm, 335

Women: native treatment of, 77, 78, 95; widows, 111, 117; family life, 119; marriage, 122-126; divorce, 128; quarrels about, 226; disposal of widows, 111, 321; mourning of widows, 321; rights of wives, 125; loan of wives, 125; self-defence of wives, 126; exchange of wives, 128, 264; inherited wives, 182; white, 347

Workmen, native, 81, 82

Zanzibaris, the, 20, 21

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