The natives of British Central Africa

								


      cloth. Ironwork. Wood-carving. Pottery. Salt,                    176



                               CHAPTER IX



                      LANGUAGE AND ORAL LITERATURE



    Structure of the Bantu languages. Riddles. Songs. Music and

      dancing. Story-telling,                                          208



                                CHAPTER X



                              FOLK-STORIES



    Methods of story-telling. Animal stories. Brer Rabbit.

      Borrowed tales. Value of native folk-lore,                       230



                               CHAPTER XI



                  TRIBAL ORGANISATION, GOVERNMENT, ETC.



    Totemistic clans. Kinship counted through women. The paramount

      chief: his powers. Succession to the chieftainship.

      Administration of justice. Crime and punishment. Slavery,        252



                               CHAPTER XII



                         TRADITIONS AND HISTORY



    Probable origin of the Yaos. The Makalanga. Undi. Migrations

      of the Angoni. The Tambuka,                                      276



    BIBLIOGRAPHY,                                                      288



    ADDENDA,                                                           289



    GLOSSARY,                                                          292



    INDEX,                                                             295

ERRATA

    Page 42, line 23, for fourth, read first.



      ” 100, line 12. The illustration referred to has not been included

               in the volume, but the same type of square house may be

               seen in Plate 16.



      ” 192, last line. This illustration has not been included.



      ” 199, last line, for Pl. 23, read Pl. 18.

LIST OF PLATES

     PLATE



         I. Women carrying water-jars, Chiromo,              Frontispiece



        II. Carriers resting in the Bush,                  facing page 9



       III. Chingomanje Stream, Mlanje,                          ”      16



        IV. Hut built on platform as a defence against lions,    ”      18



         V. Two Yao women,                                       ”      32



        VI. Group of Anguru,                                     ”      33



       VII. A Mnguru, showing keloids,                           ”      39



      VIII. Fashions in tooth-chipping,                          ”      42



        IX. (1) Exceptional coiffure of Mngoni,           }      ”      44

            (2) Women making porridge,                    }



         X. The Progress of Civilisation!                        ”      45



        XI. Tree with offerings, Ndirande Mountain,              ”      50



       XII. (1) Women on Likoma Island,                   }      ”     105

            (2) A Makua family,                           }



      XIII. (1) Mchombwa game,                          }      ”     113