INDEX
- Accidents, 331, 333
- Adultery, 128, 161
- African International Association, 20
- Albinos, 325
- Ancestors, 268
- Arts and crafts, 83;
- Astronomy, knowledge of, 141;
- beliefs re sun, moon, and stars, 142
- Bangala tribe, the, 18, 27, 161;
- Bantu tribe, the, 159, 160
- Bark-cloth, 86
- Barter, system of, 143;
- and currency, 39
- Belgian mal-administration, 20;
- “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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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
- Families, social status of, 170
- Feasts, 104
- Fetishes, 252-256;
- Fish collecting for the Museum, 235;
- 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;
- Kiteke tribe, the, 257 n.
- Labour, 114
- Libinza Lake, 161, 162, 163, 165
- Land, communal rights of, 109
- Language, “trade,” 48;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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
- Railways, 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Weapons, 227, 228
- Wine: sugar-cane, 100, 254, 322, 335;
- palm, 335
- Women: native treatment of, 77, 78, 95;
- Workmen, native, 81, 82
- Zanzibaris, the, 20, 21