Death and Burial[314]

CHAPTER XXIV

Native Diseases and their Treatment[324]

APPENDIX

Note 1.—On Yeasts, Ferments, and Bread-Making[335]
Note 2.—On the Boloki Verb[336]
Note 3.—On the Boloki Method of Counting[339]
Note 4.—On Boloki Relations or Kinship[342]
Note 5.—On Native Diseases[345]
Note 6.—On the Health of White Men on the Congo[346]
INDEX[350]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
Boloki Man and his Wife[Frontispiece]
A Meal “en route”[22]
A new type of Native House[22]
A Village Street in Monsembe[34]
Group of Mobeka Men[42]
Looking up Lake Libinza from Bosisera[42]
Our Boat and its Crew[76]
A Room in the Monsembe House[76]
Pots and Saucepans for sale, Libinza Lake[88]
A Native Woman of Wealth[90]
Burning Grass for making Salt[92]
A Boloki Drinking-bout[100]
A Boloki Woman and Child[102]
A Memorial to a deceased Head-man[104]
Boloki Women preparing an Evening Meal[116]
Group of Boloki Women at Mobeka[118]
Native Carpenter and his Workshop[150]
Model of a State Steamer[150]
Group of Libinza Folk[156]
Mangwende-a typical Boloki Head-man[160]
A Monitor[162]
A Native Hut[162]
White Ants’ Nest[190]
Boloki Boys with Wine Jar[200]
Huts built for use during War time[222]
A Boloki Shield[224]
A Boloki Method of Beheading[226]
Tetrodon Mbu[236]
Gnathonemus Numenius[236]
Genyomyrus Donnyi[242]
Protopterus Dolloi[242]
A Mungala Creek Village[264]
A Libinza Charm for protecting a Village[278]
A Charm for increasing the Birth-Rate[290]
A Bopoto Fetish for ensuring good health to Twins[308]
A method of Beheading on the Upper Congo[316]
Head-man and his Wife[320]
Method of Securing a Prisoner[326]
A Boloki woman dressing her Husband’s Hair[326]
The Author doctoring a Crocodile-bitten Hand[332]
Map for "Among Congo Cannibals."[353]