[12] Like the Zulu isanusi, who is a person of nervous, hysterical temperament to begin with, and goes through a course of training calculated to develop any ‘psychic’ gifts he or she may possess.
[13] ‘They have the firmest belief possible in ghosts, and will tell long circumstantial stories about the “spooks” they have seen—prosaic stories usually connected with daylight, as where a woman declares that while winnowing or pounding corn in the noontide, she looked out in the courtyard and saw the spirit of So-and-So passing along, looking exactly as though he were alive.’—Sir H. H. Johnston, British Central Africa, p. 449.
[14] ‘Among the tribes in the neighbourhood of Tanganyika ... a carved image of a human being ... is set up in or near the village, and thus becomes the village idol to which all prayers and sacrifices are directed.’—Life and Work in British Central Africa, June-July 1900.
[15] See [note at end of chapter].
[16] MS. communication.
[17] Popularly current as the feminine of mzungu (‘white man’); it has spread up the Shiré from the Portuguese settlements. People not acquainted with the word address you as mai (‘mother’), or mfumu (‘chief’—common gender).
[18] The Wahima or Wahuma, the nomadic pastoral race believed to be akin to the Abyssinians, whose blood predominates in the royal houses of Uganda and Unyoro.
[19] See [Chapter IV.]
[20] I am not sure that these are usual, except where they are likely to be needed for shooting.
[21] This is the same as the Nyanja word adzukulu.