Transcriber’s Notes
Spelling variants, inconsistent, archaic and unusual spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, use of accents, etc., also in proper and geographical names and in non-English words, have been retained, except as listed below. The names of peoples, tribes, other groups and localities in particular occur in different variants. Factual and textual errors, inconcistencies and contradictions have not been corrected or standardised.
Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.
Index: the deviations from the alphabetical order of the main entries have not been corrected.
Page viii, ix and others: the map and Appendices may be found in Vol. 2.
Page xii ff., tables: The totals given do not always correspond to the data given; this has not been corrected.
Changes made:
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved outside text paragraphs.
Some obvious minor punctuation and printing errors have been corrected silently.
In several tables and lists ditto characters („) have been replaced with the dittoed text.
Page xvii: Entry Illustration “A village in K’hutu. The Silk Cotton Tree” added.
In the Index, some spelling and page numbering errors have been corrected silently in order to conform to the text.
Index: The Index was not included in the original Volume I, but has been copied from Volume II for the sake of convenience and completeness.