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;
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 diagnosing, 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 me 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
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Footnotes
1. It may interest those who would read further on the folklore of the Lower Congo people that in Folk-Lore (the Journal of the Folk-Lore Society) for 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911 more detailed articles will be found, which were furnished by the writer.
7. Most white men are known to the natives by native names.
26. See Chapter XVIII, on native markets, p. 223.
28. It is the custom for a man to give his wife at least one new cloth every year.
37. Equal to saying: “I am shooting at the gnats that are eating up the turnips.”
38. The “forks” cut on upright posts to hold the cross poles are called in Congo meno, i. e. teeth.
39. The mortar is used for pounding maize, dried cassava, plantains, etc. To the native familiar with the whole process it was a good conundrum.
40. Katendi Katendwa nzala o makanda mamene, i. e. Katendi’s finger-nails must not be cut, or his clan will die out: in other words, he must fight to the last, and not submit to humiliations.
41. The whole present was worth about £10 at that time.
50. Revs. T. J. Comber, John Hartland, W. H. Bentley, and H. E. Crudgington.
58. Cloth made from pine-apple or palm fibre.
66. See Chapter VII.
68. C. J. Harris, in his introduction to Uncle Remus and His Sayings (Ward, Lock and Co., 6d. edition) mentions Prof. J. W. Powell, of the Smithsonian Institute, and Herbert H. Smith as having found similar stories “in a number of languages, and in various modified forms.” The former among the North American Indians, and the latter among the South American Indians, and one in particular he has traced to India, and as far east as Siam. I would refer the reader to that Introduction for further details.
69. It is said there are no true gazelles in Africa, whether that is so or not I have found it convenient to translate the Congo word nsexi uniformly as gazelle. The nsexi is about eighteen inches high, of slight body, thin legs, whitey-brown stomach, and brownish-grey back, small, sharp-pointed horns, small head, and large pathetic eyes. The nsexi is very agile, and I suppose that the slaves from the Congo finding no such animal in their new home in America, used the rabbit as a substitute—also there are no leopards there, so they transferred his gullibility to the fox, wolf and bear.
70. Driver-ant = Nsongonia. Small-ant = Mfitete.
71. Musical instrument like a marimba.
72. Names of market days.
73. The creditor would live at the expense of the debtor, hence the Hawk’s desire to get rid of the Frog.
74. The natives regard the Chameleon as a great dancer, because while standing still it has a peculiar movement, something like a native dancing.
75. The powder is made by grinding two pieces of the camwood together. The red paste resulting from the friction is dried, pounded and put into a cloth, and after a person has bathed, and rubbed himself (or herself) with oil the cloth is dabbed on the body, and the fine dust comes out and over the body. The camwood powder is greatly valued as a cosmetic.
76. The tree in the story is the nsafu (canuniensis) the fruit of which is date shape, but the tree is like a plum in shape, etc.
77. A very large and clever rat.
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Italicized words from the local language are assumed to be from the Kikongo (kg) lexicon.
Endnote 24, which merely cross-references endnote 19, is not referred to directly anywhere in the text.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
| 82.26 | [“]Next morning the Wine-gatherer | Added. |
| 163 | Mbumb[u/a]’s record | Replaced. |
| 395.6 | [“]and you will be the tenth.” | Added. |
| 396.8 | [“]but where is the money?” | Added. |
| 466.3 | models of diagno[s]ing | Inserted. |
| 467.27 | takes [me] from his friend’s body | sic |