[121] See M. Ploix, “Les Hottentots et leur Religion,” in Revue d’ Anthropologie, 1887, p. 271, sq.
[122] Dr. L. Tautain, “Sur l’ Ethnographie du Sénégal,” in Revue d’ Ethnographie, 1885, p. 61, sq.
[123] See Th. Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, Bd. II, ss. 476-8.
[124] See Dr. Frederich Müller, Die Æquatoriale Sprach-Familie in Central Afrika, Wien, 1889.
[125] The word bantu in that language means “people” or “men.” It is preferable to “Caffres,” which is sometimes applied to the group, and which is an Arabic term meaning “infidels.”
[126] These traditions are briefly presented by de Quatrefages, Hist. Gen. des Races Humaines, pp. 371, sqq.
[127] Grandel, Ethnography, p. 335.
[128] These are found in Bechuana land at Zimbabye. See John Mackenzie, Austral Africa, Vol. I., p. 35 (London, 1887.)
[129] Except the Bushman and Hottentots and Negrillos, all the African tribes seem to have long known the working of iron. See Dr. F. Delisle, “Sur la Fabrication du fer dans l’ Afrique Equatoriale,” in the Revue d’ Ethnographie, 1884, p. 465.
[130] On the geographical domain of the Mandingoes, see a careful note by Dr. Toutain in the Revue d’ Ethnographie, 1886, p. 515.