CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

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In Search of a New Site[27]

CHAPTER II

Settling at Monsembe[38]

CHAPTER III

Struggles with the Language[48]

CHAPTER IV

Early Days at Monsembe[65]

CHAPTER V

Arts and Crafts and Native Industry[79]

CHAPTER VI

Customs: Some Curious and some Cruel[96]

CHAPTER VII

Social Life and Organization[107]

CHAPTER VIII

Marriage and Child-bearing[122]

CHAPTER IX

Native Education[140]

CHAPTER X

Native Games and Pastimes[149]

CHAPTER XI

A Page of Native History[159]

CHAPTER XII

Native Government and the Natives[169]

CHAPTER XIII

Native Laws, Crimes, and Ordeals[179]

CHAPTER XIV

Mythology and Folk-Lore[197]

CHAPTER XV

War[222]

CHAPTER XVI

Hunting[229]

CHAPTER XVII

Fishing[235]

CHAPTER XVIII

Religious Beliefs[246]

CHAPTER XIX

The Boloki World of Spirits[261]

CHAPTER XX

Medicine Men and their Magic[276]

CHAPTER XXI

Taboos and Curses[294]

CHAPTER XXII

Native Charms and their Uses[302]

CHAPTER XXIII

Death and Burial[314]

CHAPTER XXIV

Native Diseases and their Treatment[324]