[2] Sir H. H. Johnston.
[3] Livingstone, The Zambezi and its Tributaries, p. 198.
[4] Du Zambèze au Congo Français, p. 106.
[5] See Moffat’s Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa.
[6] Sir H. H. Johnston includes the Anyika among the Batumbuka, but Dr. Elmslie says that the latter ‘have their teeth pointed.’
[7] Sir H. H. Johnston.
[8] This idea was suggested to me some years ago by Miss J. E. Harrison.
[9] Yao form of the name Anyanja.
[10] It has been derived from a word meaning ‘to nourish,’ but the above seems more probable.
[11] This is the principal tree used for making bark-cloth. Livingstone says, ‘It is a sacred tree all over Africa and India’; and I learn from M. Auguste Chevalier that it is found in every village of Senegal and French Guinea, and looked on as ‘a fetich tree.’