INDEX
(TO PART I)
A
- Alphabet, native learning the, 254
- Attempts by natives to rid themselves of sickness and death, 283, 284
- Attendants on the King, 145
B
- Bakula takes a fancy to me, 25;
- his character, 25;
- his charms, 35;
- tells good stories, 39;
- questions the visitors, 59;
- strikes at the white man, 65;
- goes with Satu on a visit, 74;
- is cut in a drunken row, 99;
- wound dressed by white teacher, 100;
- belauds the chief, 105;
- shakes hands with the teacher, 107;
- tells his name to his white friend, 111;
- is astonished at the teaching, 112;
- accompanies an embassy, 131;
- goes to see the white man, 133;
- sees the King of Congo, 137;
- learns about the King’s Court, 145;
- sees the station at work, 148;
- afraid to go into school, 152;
- sees a witch-doctor performing, 158;
- attends the white teacher during the Sunday work, 162;
- exposure of a witch-doctor, 166;
- returns to his town, 171;
- begins to lose faith in fetishes, 197;
- charged with stealing, 241;
- repudiates charms and “medicine men,” 241;
- cloth found in his house, 243;
- refuses to bribe the nganga, 246;
- is burnt by the boiling oil, 248;
- runs away to mission station, 250;
- learns the alphabet, 254;
- turned out of a town, 258;
- prays for the people, 259;
- convicted of sin, 260;
- joins the Church, 264;
- returns to his town, 265;
- starts a school, 268;
- school-house destroyed, 272;
- accused of witchcraft, 289;
- is guarded through the night, 290;
- takes the ordeal, 291;
- murdered, 291;
- is buried by Tumbu, 292
- Baobab bark juice rubbed on by witch-doctor, 248
- Baptismal service, 331
- Bartering for native produce, 235
- Betrothal bonds, releasing from, 179;
- customs connected with, 186
- Brass rod, made in factory, 1;
- Burial, christian, 201
- Bush-burning, 194;
C
- Candidates for membership, 319, 321, 329
- Charms, sacrifices to, 26, 36, 70;
- various purposes of, 35
- Chief’s house, 22
- Chief dies, 23;
- Christianity a blessing to women, 310
- Christmas festival, 327
- Church accounts, 334, 336;
- Collections at services, 299, 309, 312, 316
- Communion services, 298, 300, 338
- Comparisons--old life and new, 297, 301, 310, 316, 317
- Congo River, its width, 7;
- Conservatism of the Congo people, 267
- Conundrums, various, 9, 124, 125
- Corpse, fighting for, 218
D
- Dance called Sala, 103
- Dangers of the road, 229, 231, 317
- Deacons, election of, 332;
- Death, natives attempt to free themselves of, 283, 284
- Deficit wiped out, 334
- Devil’s Cauldron, 11
- Diagnosing by native “doctor,” 275
- Dimbula breaks the rules about bush-burning, 203;
- Drums, electrical effect of, 103
- Drunken bouts, 30, 99
F
- Fighting, mode of, 217
- Fines imposed are shared, 226
- Forest town of spirits, 31, 32
- Funeral orgy, 30
G
- Games, native, “Antelope” game, 76;
- Generosity of native Christians, 316, 334, 336
- Gifts at a funeral, 27
- Gin and rum, 13
- Goat! Goat! or redeeming a slave, 191
- Governing, 223;
- making a new law, 224
- Greetings, 232
H
- Harvest home! 338
- Harvest thanksgiving, 309, 312
- Houses, 34
- Hunters take blood of Antelope to the great hunter, 207
- Hunting, 194;
I
- Interpreter to Trader, 235
J
- Journey begins, my overland, 12
K
L
M
- Markets, 227;
- risks of attending, 229
- Marriage, Christian, 307;
- Martyrs for the cause, 305, 306
- Mavakala, accused of witchcraft, 52;
- “Medicine man,” makes fetish for white man, 13;
- visited by Satu, 20;
- makes a charm for Satu, 21;
- fails to cure Satu’s brother, 22;
- searches for the witch, 49;
- mode of procedure, 51;
- accuses Mavakala of witchcraft, 52;
- makes a luck fetish, 69;
- rubs out evil spirits, 158;
- exposure of, 166;
- makes a hunting charm, 197;
- makes a war fetish and charms, 214;
- performs peace rites, 221;
- makes trading charm, 251;
- asks Bakula for a bribe, 247;
- is fooled by school-boys, 263;
- models of diagnosingdiagnosing, 275;
- various kinds of, 274, 277, 280, 281
- Mikula finds the brass rod, 275;
- Mission station, working of, 148;
- Missionary meeting, native, 335
- Missionary, their talk about, 17;
- Mother of Bakula falls ill, 274
N
- Names given to Kroo boys, 4;
- Ndoki, an evil bewitching spirit, 22, 23, 278, 281, 282, 283
- Nkwiya, spirit that can leave a person and travel without the body, 232, 281
O
P
- Pawn, redeeming a, 178
- Peace, ceremony of making, 220
- Pictures, native learns to look at, 255
- Plaited-Beard warns my companions against white men, 16;
- angers the people against the coming white man, 60;
- abuses a visitor, 62;
- accompanies Satu, 74;
- kicks his foot and returns to his town, 85;
- is sent on an embassy, 131;
- refuses to meet the white man, 172;
- is not successful in hunting, 208;
- accuses Bakula, 208;
- reinvigorates his charm, 210;
- is made Nenkondo, 224;
- his crockery is broken, 239;
- charges Bakula with stealing, 241;
- submits to the ordeal, 247;
- guards Bakula during the night, 290
- Prohibition of luck-giver, 71
- Proverbs, 33, 39
- Pudding, way to eat, 38
R
- Redeeming a pawn, 178;
- a slave, 191
- Riddles, various, 9, 124, 125
- Ridge-pole, taking of chief’s, 219
- Road, dangers of the, 229, 231, 316
- Rules of the road, 234
S
- Sacrifices to charms, 26, 36, 70
- St. Catherine fails to help the King, 167
- Satu knocks his toes, 19;
- bad omen, 20;
- visits “medicine man,” 20;
- arrives just in time to see his dying brother, 22;
- arranges burial of his brother, 23;
- receives the mourners, 26,
- and their gifts, 27;
- stops a serious quarrel, 63;
- orders a luck fetish, 69;
- goes to visit a chief, 73;
- his toilet and dress, 86;
- visits the white man, 106;
- a long talk, 107-110;
- afraid of witchcraft, 111;
- a title falls to him, 131;
- sends embassy to King, 131;
- receives his title, 173;
- redeems his brother, 178;
- releases his niece from a hateful marriage, 179;
- his quarrel with Dimbula, 203;
- demands an apology, 205;
- goes to war, 212;
- accused of bewitching a slave, 219;
- helps Bakula, 242
- Selfishness, heathen, 317
- Sickness, attempt to clear country of, 283, 284
- Smoking a chief, 273
- Superstitions about white men:
T
- Teachers, need for native, 300;
- teaching, 303
- Title falls to Satu, 131;
- ceremony of giving the, 174
- Titles of King’s attendants, 145
- Toilet before meals, 28;
- before entering a town, 86
- Tolls for bridges, 234
- Tonzeka receives Satu, 87;
- Trade goods taken for rubber, ivory, etc., 13
- Trading, 230;
- Treatment of native chief, 273
- Tumbu sold for food, 43;
V
W
- War fetish is made, 214
- Wardrobes, variegated, 87
- Welcomed to the station, 303, 311
- White men, native talk about, 13
- White man’s fetish, 13;
- White woman take services, 314
- Witch-doctors, names of--
- Kimbaji-mbaji = to-morrow, 21
- Ngang’a Ngombo = witch-finder, 50, 288
- Ngol’a nkasa = giver of the ordeal, 55;
- ngang’a zumbi = luck-giver, 69;
- ngang’a nkongo = giver of hunting skill, 194, 210
- Kimpovela, one who speaks on behalf of others, 198
- Nganga of war, 214
- Nganga of peace, 221
- Ngang’a mpungu = giver of trading and general good luck, 231
- Nganga who gives oil ordeal, 246
- Nganga to destroy evil spirit, 363
- Nganga a wuka = healer, 274
- Nganga a moko, 277
- Nganga with traps, 280
- Nganga a bitodi who spoke to spirits, 281
- Nganga various, 284
- Women regarded as inferior, 30, 38;