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Dawn in darkest Africa

Chapter 42: INDEX
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The author records expeditions into the Congo region through vivid travel narrative and ethnographic sketches, combining descriptions of local societies with firsthand reportage on the economic and environmental effects of rubber and ivory extraction. He evaluates missionary and philanthropic activity, critiques exploitative colonial practices, and emphasizes the character and conduct of officials as pivotal to governance. Personal observation is paired with policy-minded recommendations for administrative reform and territorial reorganization, and the text is supplemented by illustrations and a map to clarify routes, peoples, and proposed changes.

INDEX

  • A
  • Abeokuta, 101, 283
  • Absinthe and natives, 99
  • Aburi, 254, 261
  • Accra, 256
  • African, artisan, the, 109;
  • doctor, the, 110, 120;
  • educated, the, 108
  • Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, 174, 201
  • Angola, 169
  • Anklets, brass, 34
  • “Anti-Slavery Society,” Portuguese, 138
  • Ants, driver, 18
  • B
  • Baketi tribe, the, 24
  • Bakuba the, 29, 40
  • Bakwala the, 39
  • Bakwiri the, 252
  • Baluba the, 27
  • Bangalla the, 27
  • Bangalla River, 26
  • Baptist Mission, the, 269
  • Barrel rolling, 256
  • Barrister, native, the, 51
  • Basamba custom, 144, 145
  • Basel Mission, the, 47, 252, 269, 285
  • Bashilele tribe, the, 29
  • Basongo, 180
  • Batanga, 32
  • Batanga canoes, 13
  • Batetela tribe, the, 27, 178, 198
  • Bathurst, 294
  • Belgian Congo, the, 203
  • Belgian Congo, commerce in, 92, 154
  • Bell, Rev. J., 281
  • Benguella, 172
  • Benin Rubber Plantations, 242
  • Bennett, E. N., 96
  • Bihean Slave Traders, 197
  • Blaize, Richard, 283
  • Bocage, M. Du, 187
  • Boela tribe, the, 33
  • Boma, 170
  • Bopoto, 26
  • Bridewells, 176
  • Brine bath, the, 231
  • British and Foreign Bible Society the, 283
  • “Bula Matadi,” 152
  • Burial customs, 25
  • Burroughs Wellcome and Company, 81, 83
  • Burtt, Joseph, 186
  • Bushongo tribe, the, 28
  • C
  • Cadbury—Standard Trial, the, 186
  • Calabar Missions, 280
  • Cameroons cocoa, 248, 251
  • Camwood production, 33
  • Canoes, dug-out, 12
  • Cape Railway, the, 171
  • Capital A, The, 195
  • Carrier, the, 4, 151
  • Carson, Sir Edward, 186
  • Castelin, Father, 207
  • Catholic missionaries, Roman, 265
  • Chapel farms, 250
  • Charms, 37
  • Chevalier, Dr., 237, 239, 241
  • Chinese Labour, 135
  • Christiansborg, 253, 280
  • Christy, Dr., 242
  • Church Missionary Society, 269
  • Cicatrization, 26, 28
  • Cicatrization, object of, 30
  • Cocoa, Butter, 246
  • Cocoa, Gold Coast, 4, 161, 247, 253
  • Cocoa, Nigerian, 257
  • Cocoa, Portuguese, 249
  • Cocktails, 75
  • Cogill, Mr., 139
  • Cold storage, 85
  • Collars, brass, 34
  • Commissioners, Assistant District, 96
  • Congo, Belgian annexation, 209, 215, 220;
  • assets, 210;
  • cocoa, 217, 250;
  • cotton, 216;
  • railway, 211;
  • rubber, 213, 216, 237, 243
  • Convict leasing, 166
  • Correctional labour, 166
  • Cotton growing, 57
  • Cotton, price of, 57
  • Cromer, the Earl of, 144
  • Cursing, fear of, 36
  • D
  • Dagomba tribe, the, 69
  • Daysman, the, 42
  • Death customs, 36, 37
  • Dennett, Mr. R. E., 143
  • Dilolo, Lake, 184, 197
  • Docemo, King, 159, 167
  • Dualla tribe, the, 252
  • Du Chaillu, Dr., 36
  • Dunstan, Professor W., 226
  • E
  • Educational grants, 112
  • Egyptians, 225
  • Elder Dempster and Company, Messrs., 84
  • Eleko, Prince, 167
  • Eloesis Guineensis, 225
  • F
  • Fernando Po, 263, 281
  • Fiji, labour contracts in, 141
  • Flogging, 127, 181
  • G
  • Gambia, the, 293
  • German colonies and commerce, 88, 90, 302
  • German Cameroons, 301, 303
  • German East Africa, 301, 303
  • Gin “banked,” 101
  • Gold Coast cocoa, 217
  • Gold Coast rubber, 242
  • Grants-in-aid, 299
  • Grenada, 261
  • Grey, Sir Edward, 40, 187, 189, 191, 196, 201
  • Gum copal, 214
  • H
  • Hairdressing, native, 32
  • Hamburg merchants, 225
  • Harding, Colonel Colin, 197
  • Hardinge, Sir Arthur, 187, 189, 196
  • Hausa carriers, 255
  • Hawkin, Mr. R. C., 135
  • Hawkins, Jack, 175
  • Hay, Mr. Drummond, 189, 193, 198
  • Herreros, the, 252, 296
  • Holt & Co., Messrs. John, 81, 93
  • Holt v. Rex, 159
  • Hospitality, native, 106
  • Hostages, rubber, 206
  • Hostage system, Congo, 206
  • “Hot Pot,” native, 233
  • I
  • India Office, the, 135, 137
  • Indians, Pincon’s Brazilian, 235
  • “Ingleza,” the, 279
  • J
  • Janssens, Monsieur, 277
  • Johnston, Sir Harry, 132
  • Jones, the late Sir Alfred, 81
  • Justice, British, 117
  • K
  • Kalamba, 180
  • Kid, the sacrificial, 24
  • Koran, 268
  • Kroo boys, 93
  • Kumasi, 253, 257, 269
  • L
  • Labour, contract, 139, 140;
  • recruiting, 141, 163;
  • recruiting, official, 142;
  • forced, 149
  • Lactation, period of, 68;
  • prolonged, 68
  • “Lady of our Salvation,” the, 171
  • Lagos island, 41, 120, 260
  • Land tenure, 157
  • Land war, 158
  • “Lazy Nigger,” the, 126
  • Leopold, King, 67, 205, 208, 219, 220, 273, 278
  • Liberian labour supply, 131
  • Liquor Traffic and Native Races Committee, 98
  • Livingstone, David, 269, 272
  • Loanda, 170, 172
  • Lobito Bay, 171
  • Lokele war, 158
  • Lome, 89, 275
  • Luebo, 180
  • Lulua tribe, the, 28
  • Lunda country, 169, 240
  • Lunda slave traffic, 188
  • Lusambo, 184
  • M
  • Macintosh, Charles, 235
  • Mackie, Mr. Consul, 187, 191, 241
  • Maloney, Sir A., 236
  • “Mammies,” The, 123
  • Manioca, preparation of, 52, 158
  • Mayumbe, 28, 217, 251, 253, 263
  • Medical missions, 277
  • Mendes, Dr. Correa, 181, 191
  • Missionary statistics, 283
  • Mobeka, 204
  • Mohammedanism, 268
  • Money lending, 35
  • Mongo tribe, the, 34
  • Monkey calls, 8
  • Mortality statistics, 78
  • Motherhood, 68
  • N
  • Negrophobia, 107
  • Neves Hermano, 195
  • Nevinson, H. W., 175
  • Nigeria, Christianity in, 268
  • Nigeria, cocoa cultivation, 257
  • Nightingale, Mr. Consul, 186
  • Ngombe, the tribe of, 32
  • Novo Redondo, 178
  • O
  • Oil palm, the, 227, 234
  • Oil rivers, 69, 90
  • Ogowé, the, 85
  • Orator, the African, 42
  • P
  • Paddler, the, 10
  • “Palaver” described, 41
  • Palm cabbage, 226, 232
  • “Palm oil chop,” 54
  • Palm wine, 103, 226, 234
  • Peace and arbitration, African, 40
  • Pico da San Thomé, 248
  • Polygamy, 59
  • Polygamy and Christianity, 61, 67
  • Polygamy, obligatory, 59
  • Polygamy and the birth rate, 63, 65
  • Portuguese Republic, 162
  • Principe, island of, 82
  • Prister, Professor, 175
  • Prohibition, difficulty of, 102
  • Protestant missions, 265
  • R
  • Race prejudice, 169
  • Reforma, the Portuguese, 194
  • Renkin, Monsieur, 207, 216
  • Repatriation fund, 192;
  • problem of, 199
  • Rio del Rey, 85
  • Rouge, native, 33
  • Rubber, discovery of, 235, 237;
  • Funtumia, 237;
  • Hevea Braziliensis, 244;
  • Ireh, 236;
  • Landolphia, 237;
  • Manihot Glaziovii, 244
  • S
  • San Thomé cocoa, 247, 264
  • Schindler, F., 197
  • Sherboro, Bai, 117
  • Sheridan, 42
  • Slave capture, 147
  • Slavery, domestic, 142, 144, 175
  • Slavery in French Guinea, 147
  • Slavery, Portuguese, 161, 262, 266, 271
  • Sleeping sickness, 132;
  • Uganda, 132;
  • Principe, 132, 181
  • Stanley, Sir H. M., 208, 236, 272
  • Strachey, J. St. Loe, 202
  • Swastika cicatrice, 28
  • T
  • Termites, 20, 261
  • Togoland, 88;
  • taxation, 153;
  • cocoa, 248;
  • transport in, 90
  • Trader, the African, 49
  • Trinidad cocoa, 262
  • Tudhope, Mr., 252
  • Twin customs, 69
  • Twin murder, 70
  • U
  • Uganda grant-in-aid, 299
  • Uganda mission, 287
  • Uncle Remus in Africa, 24
  • V
  • Vasconcellos, Senhor, 196
  • Venezuela, 260
  • Victoria, 79, 230
  • Villiers, Sir Francis Hyde, 193
  • W
  • Wages, native, 46
  • “White Cap” chiefs, the, 159
  • Williams, Robert, 91, 171
  • Wilhelmsthal, incident of the, 136
  • Wright, Herbert, 244
  • Wuta the Conqueror, 27

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