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;
  • shipped to Congo, 2;
  • travels up river, 6;
  • sold for rubber and ivory, 12;
  • travels overland, 13;
  • Bakula takes a fancy to it, 25;
  • Tumbu takes it from Bakula’s corpse, 293;
  • Tumbu buries it, 294;
  • Mikula discovers and wears it, 295
• Burial, christian, 201
• Bush-burning, 194;
  • guarding a town before the bush is burnt, 195;
  • laws relating to, 203;
  • Dimbula breaks the law, 203

C

• Candidates for membership, 319, 321, 329
• Charms, sacrifices to, 26, 36, 70;
  • various purposes of, 35
• Chief’s house, 22
• Chief dies, 23;
  • orgy at funeral of, 24;
  • bearers struggle with corpse, 31;
  • buried at sunset, 31;
  • barbarity of a, 163;
  • way of dealing with a, 273
• Christianity a blessing to women, 310
• Christmas festival, 327
• Church accounts, 334, 336;
  • membership, not easily admitted to, 319, 321, 329;
  • roll, 318, 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;
  • its current, 7, 11;
  • fishing in the, 8
• 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;
  • native, 298, 332, 334, 339
• 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;
  • insults Satu, 204;
  • is boastful, 205;
  • accepts the bullet, 213;
  • sues for peace, 220;
  • pays indemnity, 221
• 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;
  • with the drum Sala, 103;
  • make-believe games, 114;
  • “Biti” and needle, 115;
  • with canna seeds, 116;
  • hoop, 118;
  • mbele (or knife), 119;
  • various, 121
• 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;
  • charm for, 197;
  • visit to great hunter, 198

I

• Interpreter to Trader, 235

J

• Journey begins, my overland, 12

K

• King of Congo murders his mother, 106
• King of Congo, 131;
  • calls the embassy, 134;
  • his courtyard, 135;
  • his palace, 136;
  • is pleased with the presents, 137;
  • his name, 137;
  • size of, 138;
  • goes to dinner with the white man, 139;
  • eats a large dinner, 141;
  • sees magic lantern, 143;
  • his Majesty’s Court, 145;
  • told to go to St. Catherine, 167
• Kroo boys, their work on steamer, 3;
  • their curious names, 4;
  • give white men names, 4, 7;
  • boy tries to steal me, 5;
  • carries me out of the store, 5

L

• Law, making a new, 224;
  • peculiarity of native laws, 225;
  • fines imposed for breaking a law are shared, 226
• Leopard, ceremony after killing a, 176
• Life, petty and mean native, 58

M

• Markets, 227;
  • risks of attending, 229
• Marriage, Christian, 307;
  • releasing a niece from, 179;
  • sham struggle at, 189;
  • money, paying, 182, 187;
  • feast at, 189;
  • promises, 189
• Martyrs for the cause, 305, 306
• Mavakala, accused of witchcraft, 52;
  • denies his guilt, 52;
  • reason of the false charge, 53;
  • takes the ordeal, 55;
  • vomits it, 56;
  • other tests forced on him, 56;
  • is murdered, 57;
  • carcass left on hilltop, 57
• “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;
  • takes services, 297;
  • conducts a funeral, 201;
  • his marriage, 307;
  • receives the gifts, 309;
  • talks to an inquirer, 320.
• Mission station, working of, 148;
  • buying food, 149;
  • best way of bartering for goods, 150;
  • school, 151;
  • repairing, 153;
  • boys’ work in the garden, 154;
  • rules on a, 155;
  • talk with the boys, 156;
  • Saturday’s work, 157;
  • Sunday’s work--Sunday school, 159;
  • service, 161;
  • visit to a town, 162;
  • talk with the King, 164;
  • employments, 257
• Missionary meeting, native, 335
• Missionary, their talk about, 17;
  • is coming, 60;
  • driven from the town, 66;
  • is defended by Tonzeka, 93-97;
  • dresses the wounds, 100;
  • converses with Satu and his followers, 107-110;
  • native name for, 90;
  • visits Bakula, 270
• Mother of Bakula falls ill, 274

N

• Names given to Kroo boys, 4;
  • white men, 4;
  • missionaries, 90
• 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

• Omens, kicking the foot, 19, 85;
  • snake on the road, 74;
  • cutting ordeal bark, 55
• Out-station work, 296;
  • Sunday at an, 297;
  • Communion at an, 298

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:
  • buying bodies, 16;
  • get cloth from the sea, 17;
  • wickedness of white teachers, 17, 18;
  • a luck-fowl dies, 271

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;
  • gives him good entertainment, 90;
  • how to settle a palaver, 91;
  • defends the white teacher, 93-97;
  • is disturbed by the teaching, 95;
  • takes Satu to the white teacher, 106
• Trade goods taken for rubber, ivory, etc., 13
• Trading, 230;
  • fetish for helping, 231;
  • arrival of traders, 234
• Treatment of native chief, 273
• Tumbu sold for food, 43;
  • tells a story, 43;
  • wounded, 217;
  • witnesses for Bakula, 244;
  • tries to comfort Bakula, 249;
  • buries Bakula, 292;
  • takes meme from his friend’s body, 293

V

• Visitors arrive, 59;
  • abused by Plaited-Beard, 62

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;
  • puts weight under scale, 14;
  • buys banana for rubber, 14;
  • cheats in paying out beads, 14;
  • is rubbed with cow-itch, 15;
  • wants to steal ivory trumpets but is shaved, 32;
  • accused of being dirty, 62;
  • why they live under the sea, 108;
  • will steal our country, 172
• 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
    • prayer of, 199, 207
  • 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;
  • condition bettered by Christianity, 310;
  • white woman takes services, 314